Boxed meat produced from purchased carcasses · Colorado
304 Colorado Meats
Commerce City, CO · ~72 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- D
- Poor Safety Record
- 5.6
- Avg TCR
- 3.3
- Industry avg
- 0
- Fatalities
The verdict
304 Colorado Meats runs at 171% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Boxed meat produced from purchased carcasses workplace, earning a grade D.
304 Colorado Meats: 5.6 TCR = 171% of Boxed meat produced from purchased carcasses BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)
304 Colorado Meats safety composite
304 Colorado Meats scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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).
36/100
Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures
- Total Case Rate (TCR)
- D 5.64 per 100 workers
Safer than 38% of industry peers
- DART rate
- F 4.96 per 100 workers
Safer than 23% 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
304 Colorado Meats: 3.0 → 9.9 TCR
Peak year 2024 @ 9.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.88× in 2024
304 Colorado Meats's TCR rose 7.0 from 3.0 in 2020 to 9.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.88× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).
OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard
Establishment book 311612 · Commerce City, CO ABOVE-IND · SMALL
Grade D · TCR 5.6 · 171% of ind
- DART 5.0 DART
- RANK #6/8
- PHOTO Boar's Head - New Ca…
- BOOK 5y book
- INJ 28 inj
- SIZE ~72 FTE
Nearest TCR peer: Boar's Head - New Castle (0.0 TCR gap)
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304 Colorado Meats in the TCR neighbourhood
Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers
- Claryville Pla
Claryville Plant
5.7 TCR
- This site
304 Colorado Meats
5.6 TCR
- Boar's Head -
Boar's Head - New Castle
5.6 TCR
- Birchwood Food
Birchwood Foods
5.6 TCR
- Green Bay Dres
Green Bay Dressed Beef East River Processing
5.6 TCR
What this shows 304 Colorado Meats averages 5.6 TCR (171% of the Boxed meat produced from purchased carcasses BLS benchmark).
304 Colorado Meats TCR series: 2020=3 · 2021=4.1 · 2022=1.9 · 2023=9.3 · 2024=9.9 · BLS 3.3
Where 304 Colorado Meats falls in its industry
613 Boxed meat produced from purch establishmentsSafer than 38% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.
Narrower to Colorado alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 8 Boxed meat produced from purch employers in Colorado.
304 Colorado Meats has fewer employees than the Boxed meat produced from purchased carca median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 9.9 | 5.0 | 12 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 9.3 | 3.7 | 9 | 1 | 0 |
| 2022 | 1.9 | 0.9 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 4.1 | 1.4 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 3.0 | 3.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
OSHA ITA peer cross-reference
Establishment peer ledger
311612 · CO · Commerce City
613 Boxed meat produced from purchased carcasses employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,007 rated employers in Colorado with headcount on file · 175 employers in Commerce City, 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 | Boar's Head - New Castle | 5.6 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | Birchwood Foods | 5.6 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | Claryville Plant | 5.7 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | Green Bay Dressed Beef East River Processing | 5.6 TCR |
| STATE-SIZE | Blanca | 72 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | KAUFFMAN WELL SERVICE, INC. | 72 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | First Drilling LLC | 72 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | Cherokee Station | 72 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | CODEN - COMMERCE CITY | 3,388 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | COMMERCE CITY (CODEN) | 3,174 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | Q3 Contracting Inc | 593 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | Amazon.com Services LLC - BDU5 | 581 FTE |
| NAT-TCR | Fresno District Office | 5.6 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | Residential Home Health, LLC | 5.6 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | Sodexo at Cmmc Evs | 5.6 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | Modern Manufacturing and Engineering, Inc. | 5.6 TCR |
| NAT-SIZE | 11680 Hayden Road | 72 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | RJV Construction Corp. | 72 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | Chameleon Beverage Company | 72 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | Elliott Machine Shop | 72 FTE |
Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.