Flour Milling · Colorado

Ardent Mills Denver

Denver, CO · ~17 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ardent Mills Denver runs at 200% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Flour Milling workplace, earning a grade D.

Ardent Mills Denver: 6.6 TCR = 200% of Flour Milling BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ardent Mills Denver safety composite

Ardent Mills Denver scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 16%), 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).

F

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.1

2021→2024

Ardent Mills Denver injury rate improved

Ardent Mills Denver's TCR fell 2.1 from 8.9 in 2021 to 6.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 8.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.52× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=8.9 · 2023=4.0 · 2024=6.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311211 · Denver, CO ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.6 · 200% of ind

  • DART 3.4 DART
  • RANK #4/4
  • PHOTO Heartland Mill, Inc.
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~17 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Heartland Mill, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ardent Mills Denver in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ardent Mills Denver averages 6.6 TCR (200% 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 Denver TCR series: 2021=8.9 · 2023=4 · 2024=6.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Ardent Mills Denver falls in its industry

209 Flour Milling establishments

Safer than 16% 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 #4 safest of 4 Flour Milling employers in Colorado.

Ardent Mills Denver (17 employees, TCR 6.6) 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 Denver
Ardent Mills Denver (17 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Ardent Mills Denver has fewer employees than the Flour Milling median and a higher 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 6.8 3.4 2 0 0
2023 4.0 4.0 1 0 0
2021 8.9 4.5 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311211 · CO · Denver

209 Flour Milling employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,007 rated employers in Colorado with headcount on file · 1,757 employers in Denver, CO · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Heartland Mill, Inc. 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mennel Milling & Bakery Mix of North Carolina, LLC 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mennel Milling Logan 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Findlay Food Coatings Limited 6.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Platteville Dairy 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Intermountain Rural Electric Association-Woodland Park 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE San Isabel Electric Association- Bear Creek 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE DSP Builders, Inc. 17 FTE
CITY-NEAR DEN DEN 9,832 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6925-DEN 6,769 FTE
CITY-NEAR DEN - Airport United Airlines Offices 5,277 FTE
CITY-NEAR CO-01 4,581 FTE
NAT-TCR Westminster Commons 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 3043 Cash Wise Minot 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Byron 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 105 6.6 TCR

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. 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.