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

Union Tank Car Company - El Dorado

El Dorado, KS · ~58 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
5.2
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Union Tank Car Company - El Dorado runs at 116% 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.

Union Tank Car Company - El Dorado: 5.2 TCR = 116% of Locomotive and rail car repair (except factory conversion, factory overhaul, factory rebuilding) BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Union Tank Car Company - El Dorado safety composite

Union Tank Car Company - El Dorado scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 21%), 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

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% 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

Union Tank Car Company - El Dorado: 2.0 → 6.5 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 7.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.31× in 2020

Union Tank Car Company - El Dorado's TCR rose 4.5 from 2.0 in 2018 to 6.5 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 7.1 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.31× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488210 · El Dorado, KS ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 5.2 · 116% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #27/39
  • PHOTO Danville, IL Rail Shop
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~58 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Danville, IL Rail Shop (0.0 TCR gap)

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Union Tank Car Company - El Dorado in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Union Tank Car Company - El Dorado averages 5.2 TCR (116% 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

Union Tank Car Company - El Dorado TCR series: 2018=2 · 2019=7.1 · 2020=6.5 · BLS 4.5

Where Union Tank Car Company - El Dorado falls in its industry

409 Locomotive and rail car repair establishments

Safer than 21% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #27 safest of 39 Locomotive and rail car repair employers in Kansas.

Union Tank Car Company - El Dorado (58 employees, TCR 5.2) 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 Union Tank Car Company - El Dorado
Union Tank Car Company - El Dorado (58 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Union Tank Car Company - El Dorado 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
2020 6.5 1.6 3 1 0
2019 7.1 4.3 5 0 0
2018 2.0 2.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488210 · KS · El Dorado

409 Locomotive and rail car repair (except factory conversion, factory overhaul, factory rebuilding) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 38 employers in El Dorado, 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 Danville, IL Rail Shop 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hulcher Services Inc - Sauget 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Benicia UP AAW 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hobart 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE High Plains Ponderosa Dairy, LLC 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wichita System Control Center 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Phoenix Renovation and Restoration, Inc. 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE PureField Ingredients, Food Ingredients 58 FTE
CITY-NEAR HollyFrontier El Dorado Refining LLC 475 FTE
CITY-NEAR Susan B Allen Memorial Hospital 332 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 186 239 FTE
CITY-NEAR 186 231 FTE
NAT-TCR Sonesta ES Suites Atlanta - Perimeter Center East 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Roses 561 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR General Chipping 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 5645 - Cypress Woods 5.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE # 1 Cochran Collision Center of Monroeville 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE PA Location 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE RISE - Canton 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Location 42042 58 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: 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.