Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction · Colorado
Colorado Barricade Co
Denver, CO · ~123 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- F
- Failing Safety Record
- 5.6
- Avg TCR
- 2.8
- Industry avg
- 0
- Fatalities
The verdict
Colorado Barricade Co runs at 201% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction workplace, earning a grade F.
Colorado Barricade Co: 5.6 TCR = 201% of Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction BLS 2.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)
Colorado Barricade Co safety composite
Colorado Barricade Co scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 20%), 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).
30/100
Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures
- Total Case Rate (TCR)
- F 5.64 per 100 workers
Safer than 25% of industry peers
- DART rate
- F 4 per 100 workers
Safer than 20% of industry peers
- Fatalities
- D 0
Safer than 53% 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
Colorado Barricade Co: 3.3 → 5.1 TCR
Peak year 2018 @ 9.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.71× in 2024
Colorado Barricade Co's TCR rose 1.9 from 3.3 in 2017 to 5.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 9.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.71× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).
OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard
Establishment book 237310 · Denver, CO ABOVE-IND · MID
Grade F · TCR 5.6 · 201% of ind
- DART 4.0 DART
- RANK #72/85
- PHOTO Asphalt Paving Overh…
- BOOK 5y book
- INJ 39 inj
- SIZE ~123 FTE
Nearest TCR peer: Asphalt Paving Overhead (0.0 TCR gap)
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Colorado Barricade Co in the TCR neighbourhood
Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers
- This site
Colorado Barricade Co
5.6 TCR
- Asphalt Paving
Asphalt Paving Overhead
5.6 TCR
- Clarksville 25
Clarksville 25
5.6 TCR
- Virginia
Virginia
5.6 TCR
- SPECIALTIES CO
SPECIALTIES COMPANY LLC
5.6 TCR
What this shows Colorado Barricade Co averages 5.6 TCR (201% of the Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction BLS benchmark).
Colorado Barricade Co TCR series: 2017=3.3 · 2018=9.2 · 2020=5 · 2023=5.6 · 2024=5.1 · BLS 2.8
Where Colorado Barricade Co falls in its industry
4,078 Pavement, highway, road, stree establishmentsSafer than 25% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.
Narrower to Colorado alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #72 safest of 85 Pavement, highway, road, stree employers in Colorado.
Colorado Barricade Co has more employees than the Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 | 5.1 | 4.0 | 9 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 5.6 | 4.4 | 9 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 5.0 | 2.5 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 9.2 | 9.2 | 11 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 3.3 | 3.3 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
OSHA ITA peer cross-reference
Establishment peer ledger
237310 · CO · Denver
4,078 Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction 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 · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.
| Rel | Establishment | Metric |
|---|---|---|
| NAICS-TCR | Asphalt Paving Overhead | 5.6 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | Clarksville 25 | 5.6 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | Virginia | 5.6 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | SPECIALTIES COMPANY LLC | 5.6 TCR |
| STATE-SIZE | Bighorn Solar 1 | 123 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | Heating Plumbing Engineers, Inc. | 123 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | Braconier Plumbing & Heating | 123 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | Lind's Plumbing & Heating | 123 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 | Good Samaritan Nursing Home | 5.6 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | Welch Tile Marble | 5.6 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | Suncoast Industries of Florida | 5.6 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | BBI Aurora | 5.6 TCR |
| NAT-SIZE | Embassy of Newark LLC | 123 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | Allstate Peterbilt Group of South St Paul | 123 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | Alburtis | 123 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | Design Resources, Inc. | 123 FTE |
Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.