Awnings and canopies, outdoor, made from purchased fabrics · Indiana

Carefree of Colorado - Elkhart

Elkhart, IN · ~21 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Carefree of Colorado - Elkhart runs at 88% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Awnings and canopies, outdoor, made from purchased fabrics workplace, earning a grade C.

Carefree of Colorado - Elkhart: 2.9 TCR = 88% of Awnings and canopies, outdoor, made from purchased fabrics BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Carefree of Colorado - Elkhart safety composite

Carefree of Colorado - Elkhart scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 72% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 18%), 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)
C 2.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Carefree of Colorado - Elkhart: 0.0 → 5.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.8 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2024

Carefree of Colorado - Elkhart's TCR rose 5.8 from 0.0 in 2022 to 5.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 314910 · Elkhart, IN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.9 · 88% of ind

  • DART 5.8 DART
  • RANK #2/8
  • PHOTO Tom Bihn, Inc
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Tom Bihn, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Carefree of Colorado - Elkhart in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Carefree of Colorado - Elkhart averages 2.9 TCR (88% of the Awnings and canopies, outdoor, made from purchased fabrics BLS benchmark).

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

Carefree of Colorado - Elkhart TCR series: 2022=0 · 2024=5.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Carefree of Colorado - Elkhart falls in its industry

141 Awnings and canopies, outdoor, establishments

Safer than 72% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 8 Awnings and canopies, outdoor, employers in Indiana.

Carefree of Colorado - Elkhart (21 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 4.9 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Carefree of Colorado - Elkhart
Carefree of Colorado - Elkhart (21 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Carefree of Colorado - Elkhart has fewer employees than the Awnings and canopies, outdoor, made from median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.9. 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 5.8 5.8 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

314910 · IN · Elkhart

141 Awnings and canopies, outdoor, made from purchased fabrics employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 401 employers in Elkhart, IN · 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 Tom Bihn, Inc 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Steele Canvas Basket Corporation 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Covercraft Industries - Pauls Valley 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sark Custom Awnings & Window Coverings, Inc. 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Eastside Dairy, LLC 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Deer Ridge 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Indiana Sow Farm 5 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Indiana Sow Farm 3 21 FTE
CITY-NEAR Forest River, Inc. 12,549 FTE
CITY-NEAR THOR MOTOR COACH 2,437 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elkhart Community Schools 1,892 FTE
CITY-NEAR HRV LLC 1,692 FTE
NAT-TCR The Inn on Westport 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR D59 St Louis 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR AeroControlex 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 041 - Brooklyn Ny 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Recursos Externos 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE UC Trailer Co 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Aliquippa 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Oakview Veterinary Medical Center 21 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, 2022. 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.