Flour Milling · Colorado

Ardent Mills Commerce City

Commerce City, CO · ~79 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ardent Mills Commerce City runs at 49% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Flour Milling workplace, earning a grade A.

Ardent Mills Commerce City: 1.6 TCR = 49% of Flour Milling BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ardent Mills Commerce City safety composite

Ardent Mills Commerce City scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 84% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 47%), 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)
B 1.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% 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 Commerce City: 1.0 → 1.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 1.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.2× in 2024

Ardent Mills Commerce City's TCR rose 0.9 from 1.0 in 2020 to 1.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311211 · Commerce City, CO AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.6 · 49% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #2/4
  • PHOTO Jackson Corn Mill
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~79 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Jackson Corn Mill (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ardent Mills Commerce City in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ardent Mills Commerce City averages 1.6 TCR (49% 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 Commerce City TCR series: 2020=1 · 2023=1.9 · 2024=1.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Ardent Mills Commerce City falls in its industry

209 Flour Milling establishments

Safer than 84% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Colorado alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 4 Flour Milling employers in Colorado.

Ardent Mills Commerce City (79 employees, TCR 1.6) 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 Commerce City
Ardent Mills Commerce City (79 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Ardent Mills Commerce City has more 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 1.9 1.9 2 0 0
2023 1.9 0.9 2 0 0
2020 1.0 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311211 · CO · Commerce City

209 Flour Milling 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 Jackson Corn Mill 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Grain Craft Barnsville 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR JRUSA-Cambridge 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bob's Red Mill Natural Foods Whole Grain Store 1.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE William Lyon Homes, Inc. - CO Division 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE Colorado Office 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE Three Brothers Concrete INC 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE Slaton Brothers Inc, 79 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 Valtir, LLC 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR The Waterford at Mansfield 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR D83 Seattle 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 57218 Puerto Rico 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hyway Trucking 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rigid Industries 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2025 Coborn's Mitchell - SD 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE BrandSafway LDAR LLC - Houston-Branch 79 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, 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.