Comparators, optical, manufacturing · Colorado

Advanced Thin Films

Boulder, CO · ~73 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Advanced Thin Films runs at 44% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Comparators, optical, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Advanced Thin Films: 1.4 TCR = 44% of Comparators, optical, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Advanced Thin Films safety composite

Advanced Thin Films scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 77% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.4

2017→2023

Advanced Thin Films injury rate improved

Advanced Thin Films's TCR fell 0.4 from 1.6 in 2017 to 1.2 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 2.6 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=1.6 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=1.8 · 2021=1.6 · 2022=2.6 · 2023=1.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333314 · Boulder, CO AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.4 · 44% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/7
  • PHOTO Brunson Instrument C…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~73 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Brunson Instrument Company Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Advanced Thin Films in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Advanced Thin Films averages 1.4 TCR (44% of the Comparators, optical, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Advanced Thin Films TCR series: 2017=1.6 · 2019=0 · 2020=1.8 · 2021=1.6 · 2022=2.6 · 2023=1.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Advanced Thin Films falls in its industry

145 Comparators, optical, manufact establishments

Safer than 59% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.8.

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 7 Comparators, optical, manufact employers in Colorado.

Advanced Thin Films (73 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 80 employees and a TCR of 1.8 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Advanced Thin Films
Advanced Thin Films (73 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 80 employees and a TCR of 1.8

Advanced Thin Films has fewer employees than the Comparators, optical, manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.8. 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
2023 1.2 0.0 1 0 0
2022 2.6 1.3 2 0 0
2021 1.6 0.0 1 0 0
2020 1.8 0.0 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 1.6 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333314 · CO · Boulder

145 Comparators, optical, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,007 rated employers in Colorado with headcount on file · 190 employers in Boulder, 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 Brunson Instrument Company Inc. 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Luna Innovations Incorporated - Chino 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Quality Vision International, Inc 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Micron Optics, Inc. 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pueblo Service Center-705 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE BC Admin Services LLC 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE Black Roofing HQ 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE Colorado Moisture Control, Inc. 73 FTE
CITY-NEAR Boulder Campus 1,554 FTE
CITY-NEAR Foothills Campus 1,368 FTE
CITY-NEAR Measurement Solutions-Boulder Flow 761 FTE
CITY-NEAR Flow Measurement Products 711 FTE
NAT-TCR South Elgin 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Tempus Unlimited 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Cleveland Tn Cpa 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR RAFS of FWB, Inc 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE National Rivet & Mfg. Company 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE Twin Oaks Convalescent Center 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE NurseCore of Ocala 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tops Frozen Distribution Center 73 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2017. 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.