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

Softek Contractual Services Inc. Building 20 Car Shop

Escanaaba, MI · ~42 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Softek Contractual Services Inc. Building 20 Car Shop runs at 161% 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.

Softek Contractual Services Inc. Building 20 Car Shop: 7.3 TCR = 161% of Locomotive and rail car repair (except factory conversion, factory overhaul, factory rebuilding) BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Softek Contractual Services Inc. Building 20 Car Shop safety composite

Softek Contractual Services Inc. Building 20 Car Shop scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 9%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.8

2019→2024

Softek Contractual Services Inc. Building 20 Car Shop injury rate improved

Softek Contractual Services Inc. Building 20 Car Shop's TCR fell 2.8 from 6.0 in 2019 to 3.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 12.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.45× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=6.0 · 2020=12.4 · 2024=3.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488210 · Escanaaba, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.3 · 161% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK #11/11
  • PHOTO Transco Railcar Repa…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~42 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Transco Railcar Repair, Inc.- Sioux City, IA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Softek Contractual Services Inc. Building 20 Car Shop in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Softek Contractual Services Inc. Building 20 Car Shop averages 7.3 TCR (161% 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

Softek Contractual Services Inc. Building 20 Car Shop TCR series: 2019=6 · 2020=12.4 · 2024=3.3 · BLS 4.5

Where Softek Contractual Services Inc. Building 20 Car Shop falls in its industry

409 Locomotive and rail car repair establishments

Safer than 9% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 11 Locomotive and rail car repair employers in Michigan.

Softek Contractual Services Inc. Building 20 Car Shop (42 employees, TCR 7.3) 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 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Softek Contractual Services Inc. Building 20 Car Shop
Softek Contractual Services Inc. Building 20 Car Shop (42 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Softek Contractual Services Inc. Building 20 Car Shop has fewer 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
2024 3.3 3.3 1 0 0
2020 12.4 10.4 6 0 0
2019 6.0 4.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488210 · MI · Escanaaba

409 Locomotive and rail car repair (except factory conversion, factory overhaul, factory rebuilding) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 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 Transco Railcar Repair, Inc.- Sioux City, IA 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Economy Coating Systems, Inc. 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Quality Rail Service, Inc. 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Parsec Cincinnati 7.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE General Meter 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gas Construction Jackson 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pennings & Sons 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE CR Meyer - Muskegon 42 FTE
NAT-TCR Harrison Redi-Mix Corp. 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Visalia Health Center 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Nitterhouse Concrete Products 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Waterloo Plant 7.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Morello Concrete Construction, Inc. 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE LaGrou Chicago Cold 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Avera Health Avera St Mary's Hospital Campus 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE I-D Electric Co 42 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: 2024, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.