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

Transco Railway Products, Inc. - Oelwein, IA

Oelwein, IA · ~163 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Transco Railway Products, Inc. - Oelwein, IA runs at 111% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Locomotive and rail car repair (except factory conversion, factory overhaul, factory rebuilding) workplace, earning a grade C.

Transco Railway Products, Inc. - Oelwein, IA: 5.0 TCR = 111% of Locomotive and rail car repair (except factory conversion, factory overhaul, factory rebuilding) BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Transco Railway Products, Inc. - Oelwein, IA safety composite

Transco Railway Products, Inc. - Oelwein, IA scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 23%), 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% 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

−8.7

2020→2023

Transco Railway Products, Inc. - Oelwein, IA injury rate improved

Transco Railway Products, Inc. - Oelwein, IA's TCR fell 8.7 from 9.3 in 2020 to 0.6 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2020 at 9.3 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.13× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=9.3 · 2023=0.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 5.0 · 111% of ind

  • DART 0.6 DART
  • RANK #4/7
  • PHOTO El Mirage
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~163 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: El Mirage (0.0 TCR gap)

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Transco Railway Products, Inc. - Oelwein, IA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Transco Railway Products, Inc. - Oelwein, IA averages 5.0 TCR (111% 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

Transco Railway Products, Inc. - Oelwein, IA TCR series: 2020=9.3 · 2023=0.6 · BLS 4.5

Where Transco Railway Products, Inc. - Oelwein, IA falls in its industry

409 Locomotive and rail car repair establishments

Safer than 23% 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 #4 safest of 7 Locomotive and rail car repair employers in Iowa.

Transco Railway Products, Inc. - Oelwein, IA (163 employees, TCR 5.0) 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 Transco Railway Products, Inc. - Oelwein, IA
Transco Railway Products, Inc. - Oelwein, IA (163 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Transco Railway Products, Inc. - Oelwein, IA 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
2023 0.6 0.6 1 0 0
2020 9.3 4.3 15 0 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 El Mirage 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Savage Services - Maine Operations 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pennsylvania 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wisconson 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Waukee 163 FTE
STATE-SIZE Coveris Sibley 163 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dubuque 163 FTE
STATE-SIZE Terex - Waverly 163 FTE
CITY-NEAR Oelwein Store 575 FTE
CITY-NEAR Oelwein Human Services 524 FTE
CITY-NEAR EAST PENN OELWEIN 321 FTE
CITY-NEAR Oelwein Iowa 178 FTE
NAT-TCR R&D Maintenance Services, Inc. (JST) 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Heritage Manor of Baton Rouge 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Broadmoor Continuing Care Center Ltd. Co. d/b/a The Broadmoor at Creekside Park 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Unit #2956 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Stevenson Mill 163 FTE
NAT-SIZE Commercial HVAC Americas : SVC-Upper Midwest : SVC-Chicago IL-USA 163 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0725 - Tracy Ca Depot - Ecomm 163 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0174 - West Palm Beach Fl (Dry) Depot 163 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, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.