Locomotive and rail car repair (except factory conversion, factory overhaul, factory rebuilding) · Iowa

Oelwein Iowa

Oelwein, IA · ~178 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Oelwein Iowa runs at 173% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Locomotive and rail car repair (except factory conversion, factory overhaul, factory rebuilding) workplace, earning a grade D.

Oelwein Iowa: 7.8 TCR = 173% of Locomotive and rail car repair (except factory conversion, factory overhaul, factory rebuilding) BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Oelwein Iowa safety composite

Oelwein Iowa 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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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

Oelwein Iowa: 5.7 → 11.8 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 11.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.79× in 2018

Oelwein Iowa's TCR rose 6.1 from 5.7 in 2016 to 11.8 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.79× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488210 · Oelwein, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 7.8 · 173% of ind

  • DART 6.2 DART
  • RANK #7/7
  • PHOTO Bensenville
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 29 inj
  • SIZE ~178 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bensenville (0.0 TCR gap)

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Oelwein Iowa in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Oelwein Iowa averages 7.8 TCR (173% of the Locomotive and rail car repair (except factory conversion, factory overhaul, factory rebuilding) BLS benchmark).

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

Oelwein Iowa TCR series: 2016=5.7 · 2017=5.9 · 2018=11.8 · BLS 4.5

Where Oelwein Iowa falls in its industry

409 Locomotive and rail car repair establishments

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

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 7 Locomotive and rail car repair employers in Iowa.

Oelwein Iowa (178 employees, TCR 7.8) 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 Oelwein Iowa
Oelwein Iowa (178 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Oelwein Iowa has more employees than the Locomotive and rail car repair (except f 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
2018 11.8 6.2 16 5 0
2017 5.9 4.8 8 3 0
2016 5.7 2.9 5 5 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488210 · IA · Oelwein

409 Locomotive and rail car repair (except factory conversion, factory overhaul, factory rebuilding) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 26 employers in Oelwein, IA · 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 Bensenville 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Finley 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Southeast Railcar 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR GATX - Colton 7.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE American Popcorn Company 178 FTE
STATE-SIZE Silgan Containers Ft Dodge 178 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ankeny Linde Gas & Equipment Inc. 178 FTE
STATE-SIZE MASON CITY IA - 3094 178 FTE
CITY-NEAR Oelwein Store 575 FTE
CITY-NEAR Oelwein Human Services 524 FTE
CITY-NEAR EAST PENN OELWEIN 321 FTE
CITY-NEAR Transco Railway Products, Inc. - Oelwein, IA 163 FTE
NAT-TCR Spectrum America 998 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR APL Valencia 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Northeast Rehab 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Charles George Companies, Inc. 7.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Covenant Shores 178 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Cajun 2 178 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mundy Maintenance and Services LLC Job #31041 178 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lsi Ny 178 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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