Truck stops · Colorado

174 TA Wheat Ridge

Wheat Ridge, CO · ~66 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.6
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

174 TA Wheat Ridge runs at 105% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Truck stops workplace, earning a grade C.

174 TA Wheat Ridge: 3.6 TCR = 105% of Truck stops BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

174 TA Wheat Ridge safety composite

174 TA Wheat Ridge scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 26%), 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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

174 TA Wheat Ridge: 1.6 → 5.5 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 5.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.03× in 2017

174 TA Wheat Ridge's TCR rose 3.9 from 1.6 in 2016 to 5.5 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 1.03× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 447190 · Wheat Ridge, CO ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.6 · 105% of ind

  • DART 3.7 DART
  • RANK #3/5
  • PHOTO 011 TA Dayton
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~66 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 011 TA Dayton (0.0 TCR gap)

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174 TA Wheat Ridge in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 174 TA Wheat Ridge averages 3.6 TCR (105% of the Truck stops BLS benchmark).

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

174 TA Wheat Ridge TCR series: 2016=1.6 · 2017=5.5 · BLS 3.4

Where 174 TA Wheat Ridge falls in its industry

122 Truck stops establishments

Safer than 44% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Colorado alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 5 Truck stops employers in Colorado.

174 TA Wheat Ridge (66 employees, TCR 3.6) among 14 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.4 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 15 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 174 TA Wheat Ridge
174 TA Wheat Ridge (66 employees, TCR 3.6) among 14 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.4

174 TA Wheat Ridge has more employees than the Truck stops median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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
2017 5.5 3.7 3 0 0
2016 1.6 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

447190 · CO · Wheat Ridge

122 Truck stops employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,007 rated employers in Colorado with headcount on file · 56 employers in Wheat Ridge, CO · 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 011 TA Dayton 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 228 TA Limon 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 326 Petro N. Little Rock 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 147 TA San Antonio 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Velocity Constructors Inc 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE CFC 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4112 Kodiak Court Fredrick, CO 80504 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sterling 66 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lutheran Medical Center 1,912 FTE
CITY-NEAR SiteWise Corporation 432 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rocky Mountain Bottle Company 239 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2021 - Arvada South 213 FTE
NAT-TCR Cuba Manor Inc 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR ANCHR - Charlotte- NC 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 21Z3-U3 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Plainville Community Schools Toffolon Elementary School 3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Emco Wheaton Retail Corp. 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE N and R of Fredericktown Inc 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE Legends - Walnut Creek 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE VC047 - VCI - Las Vegas 66 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: 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.