Freight car cleaning services · California

GATX - Colton

Colton, CA · ~67 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

GATX - Colton runs at 176% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Freight car cleaning services workplace, earning a grade D.

GATX - Colton: 7.9 TCR = 176% of Freight car cleaning services BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

GATX - Colton safety composite

GATX - Colton scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 7%), 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).

F

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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

GATX - Colton: 4.8 → 9.8 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 10.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.53× in 2023

GATX - Colton's TCR rose 5.0 from 4.8 in 2017 to 9.8 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2020 at 10.4 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.53× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488210 · Colton, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.9 · 176% of ind

  • DART 4.2 DART
  • RANK #28/29
  • PHOTO Appliance Park NS
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 30 inj
  • SIZE ~67 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Appliance Park NS (0.0 TCR gap)

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GATX - Colton in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows GATX - Colton averages 7.9 TCR (176% of the Freight car cleaning services BLS benchmark).

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

GATX - Colton TCR series: 2017=4.8 · 2018=4.9 · 2019=9.2 · 2020=10.4 · 2022=8.3 · 2023=9.8 · BLS 4.5

Where GATX - Colton falls in its industry

409 Freight car cleaning services establishments

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #28 safest of 29 Freight car cleaning services employers in California.

GATX - Colton (67 employees, TCR 7.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 0200400600800 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate GATX - Colton
GATX - Colton (67 employees, TCR 7.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.8

GATX - Colton has more employees than the Freight car cleaning services median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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 9.8 4.2 7 0 0
2022 8.3 3.3 3 2 0
2020 10.4 4.5 7 0 0
2019 9.2 0.0 7 0 0
2018 4.9 0.0 3 1 0
2017 4.8 0.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488210 · CA · Colton

409 Freight car cleaning services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 95 employers in Colton, CA · 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 Appliance Park NS 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Oelwein Iowa 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bensenville 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Finley 7.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sonoma GVIC Ranches 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE MUGU RANCH PARTNERSHIP 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE Travaille and Phippen, Inc. 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nurseries 67 FTE
CITY-NEAR Arrowhead Regional Medical Center 1,709 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 294 1,529 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 287 1,342 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 290 1,342 FTE
NAT-TCR USM Store #565 (Market Street) 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR RK-113-Martinsville ( RK-113 ) 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Edina Service Center-UB 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Sun Glo of Idaho, Inc. 7.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE USM Store #578 (United) 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vinylmax NY 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1377 - Owatonna Mn (Wet) Depot 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0758 - Morris Il Depot - Ecomm 67 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, 2022, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.