Flour Milling · California

Ardent Mills Colton

Colton, CA · ~27 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ardent Mills Colton runs at 92% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Flour Milling workplace, earning a grade C.

Ardent Mills Colton: 3.0 TCR = 92% of Flour Milling BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ardent Mills Colton safety composite

Ardent Mills Colton scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 53% 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.29 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%).

Rising injury rate

Ardent Mills Colton: 0.0 → 2.3 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 7.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.76× in 2024

Ardent Mills Colton's TCR rose 2.3 from 0.0 in 2020 to 2.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 7.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.76× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311211 · Colton, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.0 · 92% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK #7/13
  • PHOTO General Mills (Buffa…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: General Mills (Buffalo Flour) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ardent Mills Colton in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ardent Mills Colton averages 3.0 TCR (92% of the Flour Milling BLS benchmark).

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

Ardent Mills Colton TCR series: 2020=0 · 2021=7.5 · 2023=2.3 · 2024=2.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Ardent Mills Colton falls in its industry

209 Flour Milling establishments

Safer than 53% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 13 Flour Milling employers in California.

Ardent Mills Colton (27 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 0100200300400500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Ardent Mills Colton
Ardent Mills Colton (27 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Ardent Mills Colton has fewer employees than the Flour Milling median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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 2.3 2.3 1 0 0
2023 2.3 2.3 1 0 0
2021 7.5 7.5 3 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311211 · CA · Colton

209 Flour Milling employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 95 employers in Colton, 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 General Mills (Buffalo Flour) 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ardent Mills Harvey 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chicago Flour Mill 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ardent Mills Alton 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE HQ 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Medeiros Farms Vineyards 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE SAND RANCH 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE San Bernabe Vineyards 27 FTE
CITY-NEAR Arrowhead Regional Medical Center 1,709 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 294 1,529 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 287 1,342 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 290 1,342 FTE
NAT-TCR Prosper 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Marc Glassman Inc 32LP 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Watertronics LLC 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 037 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cangelosi-Ward General Contractors, LLC 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hampton Inn Columbia 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corrpro Malvern 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corrpro Sand Springs 27 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, 2021, 2020. 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.