Powder coating metals and metal products for the trade · Kansas

Ernest-Spencer Custom Coatings

Ottawa, KS · ~22 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ernest-Spencer Custom Coatings runs at 65% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Powder coating metals and metal products for the trade workplace, earning a grade B.

Ernest-Spencer Custom Coatings: 2.1 TCR = 65% of Powder coating metals and metal products for the trade BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ernest-Spencer Custom Coatings safety composite

Ernest-Spencer Custom Coatings scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 18%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

D

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Rising injury rate

Ernest-Spencer Custom Coatings: 3.6 → 5.0 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 5.0 TCR · DART/TCR 2.31× in 2023

Ernest-Spencer Custom Coatings's TCR rose 1.3 from 3.6 in 2019 to 5.0 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 2.31× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332812 · Ottawa, KS AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.1 · 65% of ind

  • DART 5.0 DART
  • RANK #1/7
  • PHOTO Bham 2
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bham 2 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ernest-Spencer Custom Coatings in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Ernest-Spencer Custom Coatings averages 2.1 TCR (65% of the Powder coating metals and metal products for the trade BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Ernest-Spencer Custom Coatings TCR series: 2019=3.6 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2023=5 · BLS 3.3

Where Ernest-Spencer Custom Coatings falls in its industry

646 Powder coating metals and meta establishments

Safer than 74% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 7 Powder coating metals and meta employers in Kansas.

Ernest-Spencer Custom Coatings (22 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.9 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Ernest-Spencer Custom Coatings
Ernest-Spencer Custom Coatings (22 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Ernest-Spencer Custom Coatings has fewer employees than the Powder coating metals and metal products median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2023 5.0 5.0 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 3.6 3.6 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332812 · KS · Ottawa

646 Powder coating metals and metal products for the trade employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 45 employers in Ottawa, KS · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Bham 2 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chromalloy Middletown 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ad-Tech Industries, Inc 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Linde Advance Materials Technologies, Inc 2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Reeve Cattle Company 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE TK Metals 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corteva Garden City 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE GO 2nd & Jackson 22 FTE
CITY-NEAR Retail Distribution West 903 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6035 894 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 6035 839 FTE
CITY-NEAR American Eagle Outfitters Retail Distribution West 732 FTE
NAT-TCR O'Neal Steel Incorporated_Nashville 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Unit #2753 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Dale's Heating and Air, Inc. 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Detroit 2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Stryker Construction, Inc. 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Harrisburg Feed 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Norfolk w/JV 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Quincy Office Liquid Plant & Chemical 22 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2023, 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.