Vegetable and melon farming, vegetable (except potato) and melon dominant crops, field, bedding plants and seed · Colorado

Colorado Production Farming

Monte Vista, CO · ~38 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.2
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Colorado Production Farming runs at 159% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Vegetable and melon farming, vegetable (except potato) and melon dominant crops, field, bedding plants and seed workplace, earning a grade D.

Colorado Production Farming: 7.2 TCR = 159% of Vegetable and melon farming, vegetable (except potato) and melon dominant crops, field, bedding plants and seed BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Colorado Production Farming safety composite

Colorado Production Farming scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 9%), 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)
F 7.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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 Production Farming: 5.1 → 9.3 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 9.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.29× in 2021

Colorado Production Farming's TCR rose 4.2 from 5.1 in 2020 to 9.3 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.29× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111219 · Monte Vista, CO ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.2 · 159% of ind

  • DART 9.3 DART
  • RANK P32
  • PHOTO Jason Farm
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~38 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Jason Farm (0.0 TCR gap)

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Colorado Production Farming in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Colorado Production Farming averages 7.2 TCR (159% of the Vegetable and melon farming, vegetable (except potato) and melon dominant crops, field, bedding plants and seed BLS benchmark).

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

Colorado Production Farming TCR series: 2020=5.1 · 2021=9.3 · BLS 4.5

Where Colorado Production Farming falls in its industry

331 Vegetable and melon farming, v establishments

Safer than 32% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Colorado Production Farming (38 employees, TCR 7.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.5 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Colorado Production Farming
Colorado Production Farming (38 employees, TCR 7.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.5

Colorado Production Farming has fewer employees than the Vegetable and melon farming, vegetable ( median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.5. 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
2021 9.3 9.3 2 0 0
2020 5.1 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111219 · CO · Monte Vista

331 Vegetable and melon farming, vegetable (except potato) and melon dominant crops, field, bedding plants and seed employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,007 rated employers in Colorado with headcount on file · 14 employers in Monte Vista, 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 Jason Farm 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR George Chiala Farms - Hollister 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pacific Tomato Growers , Ltd. - Georgia 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 3378_6551 7.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Nathan Naill, LLC 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Morgan County Rural Electric Association 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Thrive Home Builders Corporate Office 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE All Phase Denver 38 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mountain King Potatoes 101 FTE
CITY-NEAR WORLEY & MCCULLOUGH, INC. 65 FTE
CITY-NEAR Monte Vista Cooperative Main 64 FTE
CITY-NEAR Farm 60 FTE
NAT-TCR Walgreens of Puerto Rico Inc 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR R+L Carriers - OMH 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Obion Live Haul 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Inspired Living at Ivy Ridge 7.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Store #098 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cal-O Shipping 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Coldspring 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Drury Inn & Suites - Iowa City Coralville 38 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: 2021, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.