Painting and wallpapering · California

Vertex Coatings, Inc

Ontario, CA · ~84 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Vertex Coatings, Inc runs at 108% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Painting and wallpapering workplace, earning a grade C.

Vertex Coatings, Inc: 3.0 TCR = 108% of Painting and wallpapering BLS 2.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Vertex Coatings, Inc safety composite

Vertex Coatings, Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 41%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% 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%).

Vertex Coatings, Inc held a steady TCR band

Vertex Coatings, Inc's TCR held near 0.2 from 2.4 in 2019 to 2.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 4.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.56× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=2.4 · 2020=1.2 · 2022=4.5 · 2023=4.5 · 2024=2.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238320 · Ontario, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.0 · 108% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #48/124
  • PHOTO Steinbrecher Paintin…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~84 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Steinbrecher Painting Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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Vertex Coatings, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Vertex Coatings, Inc averages 3.0 TCR (108% of the Painting and wallpapering BLS benchmark).

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

Vertex Coatings, Inc TCR series: 2019=2.4 · 2020=1.2 · 2022=4.5 · 2023=4.5 · 2024=2.6 · BLS 2.8

Where Vertex Coatings, Inc falls in its industry

582 Painting and wallpapering establishments

Safer than 47% 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 #48 safest of 124 Painting and wallpapering employers in California.

Vertex Coatings, Inc (84 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Vertex Coatings, Inc
Vertex Coatings, Inc (84 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Vertex Coatings, Inc has more employees than the Painting and wallpapering 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 2.6 1.7 3 0 0
2023 4.5 4.5 4 0 0
2022 4.5 0.0 4 0 0
2020 1.2 1.2 0 1 0
2019 2.4 2.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238320 · CA · Ontario

582 Painting and wallpapering employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 599 employers in Ontario, 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 Steinbrecher Painting Company 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR A J VATER & CO, INC 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR P S Bruckel, Inc 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR HEIN BROTHERS, LLC 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE montalvo farms 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hansen Custom Farming, LLC 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hilarides Dairy 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE McIntyre Labor Service, LLC. 84 FTE
CITY-NEAR Prime Healthcare Services Inc. Location: St. Mary's, Passaic LLC 46-3499370 (HP29) 10,997 FTE
CITY-NEAR CAONA - ONTARIO HUB 4,372 FTE
CITY-NEAR ONTARIO HUB (CAONA) 3,354 FTE
CITY-NEAR Atlantic Solutions Group Inc, Inc. DBA Empire Workforce Solutions 3,240 FTE
NAT-TCR Rich Mountain Electric Cooperative, Inc. 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Prairie Power, Inc. 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Joy Global Underground Mining LLC 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR SSP 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Allspec Construction, Inc. 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sanford 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kre-Bsl Husky Woodbridge Operations LLC 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Z-man Fishing Products 84 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, 2023, 2022, 2020, 2019. 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.