Thrift shops, used merchandise · Colorado

Bowles Store

Littlton, CO · ~60 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.4
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bowles Store runs at 307% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Thrift shops, used merchandise workplace, earning a grade F.

Bowles Store: 10.4 TCR = 307% of Thrift shops, used merchandise BLS 3.4 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bowles Store safety composite

Bowles Store scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 17%), 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

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% 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

−7.3

2016→2024

Bowles Store injury rate improved

Bowles Store's TCR fell 7.3 from 13.2 in 2016 to 5.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 16.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.28× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=13.2 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=10.5 · 2019=8.1 · 2020=14.6 · 2021=16.6 · 2022=10.2 · 2023=14.7 · 2024=5.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 453310 · Littlton, CO ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.4 · 307% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK #88/119
  • PHOTO Goodwill Industries …
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 29 inj
  • SIZE ~60 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Goodwill Industries of El Paso Inc./ Lee Trevino (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bowles Store in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bowles Store averages 10.4 TCR (307% of the Thrift shops, used merchandise BLS benchmark).

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

Bowles Store TCR series: 2016=13.2 · 2017=0 · 2018=10.5 · 2019=8.1 · 2020=14.6 · 2021=16.6 · 2022=10.2 · 2023=14.7 · 2024=5.9 · BLS 3.4

Where Bowles Store falls in its industry

1,556 Thrift shops, used merchandise establishments

Safer than 17% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Colorado alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #88 safest of 119 Thrift shops, used merchandise employers in Colorado.

Bowles Store (60 employees, TCR 10.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 5.3 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 05001,0001,5002,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Bowles Store
Bowles Store (60 employees, TCR 10.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Bowles Store has more employees than the Thrift shops, used merchandise median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.3. 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 5.9 3.0 1 1 0
2023 14.7 14.7 5 0 0
2022 10.2 6.8 3 0 0
2021 16.6 13.2 4 1 0
2020 14.6 11.0 4 0 0
2019 8.1 8.1 3 0 0
2018 10.5 7.9 4 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 13.2 7.9 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

453310 · CO · Littlton

1,556 Thrift shops, used merchandise 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 Goodwill Industries of El Paso Inc./ Lee Trevino 10.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Goodwill Industries of the Valleys, Inc. Cave Spring (22) 10.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Goodwill of Colorado S. Wadsworth 10.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Waterbury Store 10.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Farm 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE Empire Electric Association 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE O&M Boulder 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1777 Chestnut Place 60 FTE
NAT-TCR Pioneer College Caterers, Inc. - Unit 032/Cairn University 10.4 TCR
NAT-TCR XVL 10.4 TCR
NAT-TCR G3 Industries, Inc. 10.4 TCR
NAT-TCR St. Anne Home 10.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Builders Steel Company 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hamilton SC 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE Prestress Services Industries Lexington 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alcal Phoenix Multi-Product 60 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 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.