Ammonia, fertilizer material, merchant wholesalers · Colorado

Burlington Fertilizer

Burlington, CO · ~19 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
4.9
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Burlington Fertilizer runs at 221% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Ammonia, fertilizer material, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Burlington Fertilizer: 4.9 TCR = 221% of Ammonia, fertilizer material, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Burlington Fertilizer safety composite

Burlington Fertilizer scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 34%), 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

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% 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

−50.1

2016→2018

Burlington Fertilizer injury rate improved

Burlington Fertilizer's TCR fell 50.1 from 55.0 in 2016 to 4.9 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 55.0 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=55.0 · 2018=4.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424910 · Burlington, CO ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 4.9 · 221% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #11/18
  • PHOTO MFA Agri Service - G…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MFA Agri Service - Glasgow (0.0 TCR gap)

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Burlington Fertilizer in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Burlington Fertilizer averages 4.9 TCR (221% of the Ammonia, fertilizer material, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Burlington Fertilizer TCR series: 2016=55 · 2018=4.9 · BLS 2.2

Where Burlington Fertilizer falls in its industry

1,202 Ammonia, fertilizer material, establishments

Safer than 34% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Colorado alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 18 Ammonia, fertilizer material, employers in Colorado.

Burlington Fertilizer (19 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Burlington Fertilizer
Burlington Fertilizer (19 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Burlington Fertilizer has fewer employees than the Ammonia, fertilizer material, merchant w median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2018 4.9 0.0 1 0 0
2016 55.0 18.3 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424910 · CO · Burlington

1,202 Ammonia, fertilizer material, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,007 rated employers in Colorado with headcount on file · 12 employers in Burlington, CO · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR MFA Agri Service - Glasgow 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR BFG Supply Co-Cheswick 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Overton Farmers Co-op 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR JR Simplot Company-SGS Osgood 4.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Madhava Honey Ltd & Subsidiaries dba Madhava 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE DuPont Pioneer LaSalle Research 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cooley Mesa 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE LaPLata Electric Assn. 19 FTE
CITY-NEAR Midwest Farms LLC 103 FTE
CITY-NEAR Easley Place 58 FTE
CITY-NEAR Adept Concrete, Ltd. 48 FTE
CITY-NEAR Grace Manor Care Center 45 FTE
NAT-TCR Gold Medal Products Co. Chicago 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR KS Energy Services (Madison) 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Russellville (Arrus) 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Olympic (Caoly) 4.9 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: 2018, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.