Tea, herbal, manufacturing · Colorado

Celestial Seasonings

Boulder, CO · ~256 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.7
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Celestial Seasonings runs at 66% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Tea, herbal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Celestial Seasonings: 2.7 TCR = 66% of Tea, herbal, manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Celestial Seasonings safety composite

Celestial Seasonings scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% 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

−1.0

2016→2024

Celestial Seasonings injury rate improved

Celestial Seasonings's TCR fell 1.0 from 2.6 in 2016 to 1.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 4.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.6 · 2017=3.3 · 2018=2.4 · 2019=2.2 · 2020=4.1 · 2024=1.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311920 · Boulder, CO AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.7 · 66% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/6
  • PHOTO THUSA Coffee company…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 35 inj
  • SIZE ~256 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: THUSA Coffee company,Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Celestial Seasonings in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Celestial Seasonings averages 2.7 TCR (66% of the Tea, herbal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Celestial Seasonings TCR series: 2016=2.6 · 2017=3.3 · 2018=2.4 · 2019=2.2 · 2020=4.1 · 2024=1.6 · BLS 4.1

Where Celestial Seasonings falls in its industry

169 Tea, herbal, manufacturing establishments

Safer than 57% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Colorado alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 6 Tea, herbal, manufacturing employers in Colorado.

Celestial Seasonings (256 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 02004006008001,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Celestial Seasonings
Celestial Seasonings (256 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Celestial Seasonings has more employees than the Tea, herbal, manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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 1.6 0.0 1 1 0
2020 4.1 4.1 8 0 0
2019 2.2 2.2 5 0 0
2018 2.4 1.9 5 0 0
2017 3.3 3.3 8 0 0
2016 2.6 2.6 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311920 · CO · Boulder

169 Tea, herbal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,007 rated employers in Colorado with headcount on file · 190 employers in Boulder, 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 THUSA Coffee company,Inc 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kerry 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Commercial Park 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Atlanta Sales Location 2.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Corporate - DENVER 256 FTE
STATE-SIZE CORE Electric Cooperative 256 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1928 - Westminster 256 FTE
STATE-SIZE 890 DENVER 256 FTE
CITY-NEAR Boulder Campus 1,554 FTE
CITY-NEAR Foothills Campus 1,368 FTE
CITY-NEAR Measurement Solutions-Boulder Flow 761 FTE
CITY-NEAR Flow Measurement Products 711 FTE
NAT-TCR 5709 Bonded Logistics 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR SSW Premier 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Mueller Brothers Timber Inc. 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Nisshinbo Automotive Manufacturing Inc 2.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Meyn America LLC 256 FTE
NAT-SIZE Indianapolis Retail 256 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mattson Technology, Inc. 256 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bally Ribbon Mills 256 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, 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.