Beef cattle feedlots (except stockyards for transportation) · Colorado

4M Feeders

Stratton, CO · ~52 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

4M Feeders runs at 179% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Beef cattle feedlots (except stockyards for transportation) workplace, earning a grade D.

4M Feeders: 8.0 TCR = 179% of Beef cattle feedlots (except stockyards for transportation) BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

4M Feeders safety composite

4M Feeders scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 88% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 27%), 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).

C

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

−11.0

2016→2021

4M Feeders injury rate improved

4M Feeders's TCR fell 11.0 from 11.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2017 at 14.6 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=11.0 · 2017=14.6 · 2018=6.6 · 2019=8.1 · 2021=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 112112 · Stratton, CO ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 8.0 · 179% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #8/9
  • PHOTO Knight Feedlot Inc.
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 29 inj
  • SIZE ~52 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Knight Feedlot Inc. (0.1 TCR gap)

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4M Feeders in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 4M Feeders averages 8.0 TCR (179% of the Beef cattle feedlots (except stockyards for transportation) BLS benchmark).

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

4M Feeders TCR series: 2016=11 · 2017=14.6 · 2018=6.6 · 2019=8.1 · 2021=0 · BLS 4.5

Where 4M Feeders falls in its industry

165 Beef cattle feedlots (except s establishments

Safer than 27% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Colorado alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 9 Beef cattle feedlots (except s employers in Colorado.

4M Feeders (52 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 5.4 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 020406080100 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 4M Feeders
4M Feeders (52 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 5.4

4M Feeders has more employees than the Beef cattle feedlots (except stockyards median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.4. 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
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 8.1 8.1 6 0 0
2018 6.6 3.9 5 0 0
2017 14.6 14.6 10 0 0
2016 11.0 2.7 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112112 · CO · Stratton

165 Beef cattle feedlots (except stockyards for transportation) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,007 rated employers in Colorado with headcount on file · 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 Knight Feedlot Inc. 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR NA Timmerman, Inc 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR POKY FEEDERS, INC. 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Green Plains Cattle Company LLC- Eckley 8.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Alamosa Service Center-805 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lobato Construction LLC 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE Keene Concrete, Inc. 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE Asphalt Recycling and Stabilization, Inc. 52 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stratton 13 FTE
NAT-TCR Journey Group 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Shawnee Care Center 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR CDF Headquarters 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR The Queensbury Hotel 8.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Long Beach Yard 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gulf Fiberoptics Inc. 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE Integrico Composites of Louisiana 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE Municipal Electric Utillity 52 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: 2021, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.