Electrical contractors · Colorado

Colorado Lighting Inc.

Denver, CO · ~89 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.6
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Colorado Lighting Inc. runs at 127% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Electrical contractors workplace, earning a grade D.

Colorado Lighting Inc.: 3.6 TCR = 127% of Electrical contractors BLS 2.8 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Colorado Lighting Inc. safety composite

Colorado Lighting Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 42% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 1%), 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).

F

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 1% 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 Lighting Inc.: 2.5 → 5.8 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 7.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.33× in 2023

Colorado Lighting Inc.'s TCR rose 3.3 from 2.5 in 2016 to 5.8 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 7.4 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238210 · Denver, CO ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.6 · 127% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK #66/135
  • PHOTO Central Electric Com…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 25 inj
  • SIZE ~89 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Central Electric Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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Colorado Lighting Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Colorado Lighting Inc. averages 3.6 TCR (127% of the Electrical contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Colorado Lighting Inc. TCR series: 2016=2.5 · 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=5.5 · 2020=5.1 · 2021=2.3 · 2022=7.4 · 2023=5.8 · BLS 2.8

Where Colorado Lighting Inc. falls in its industry

4,550 Electrical contractors establishments

Safer than 35% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Colorado alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #66 safest of 135 Electrical contractors employers in Colorado.

Colorado Lighting Inc. (89 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 Colorado Lighting Inc.
Colorado Lighting Inc. (89 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Colorado Lighting Inc. has more employees than the Electrical contractors median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2023 5.8 1.2 5 0 0
2022 7.4 4.9 6 0 0
2021 2.3 1.1 2 0 1
2020 5.1 4.1 5 0 0
2019 5.5 0.0 5 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 2.5 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238210 · CO · Denver

4,550 Electrical contractors 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 Central Electric Company 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gilbert Electric Co. 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Precision Electric Group (CA) Inc. 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR WL Contractors 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lightsource bp - Denver Office 89 FTE
STATE-SIZE Poudre Valley Rural Electric Association, Inc 89 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gilbane Building Company Denver 89 FTE
STATE-SIZE Palace Construction Co., Inc 89 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 LeafGuard of Southern Georgia 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Unit #2096 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Unit #2256 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Unit #2732 3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE 4120 - Gouldsboro Pa Ddc (Costco Logistics) Depot 89 FTE
NAT-SIZE Unit #0529 89 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sea Star North 89 FTE
NAT-SIZE Unit #2971 89 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.