Other Snack Food Manufacturing · Colorado

Denver Plant

Denver, CO · ~430 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

Denver Plant runs at 74% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Other Snack Food Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Denver Plant: 3.0 TCR = 74% of Other Snack Food Manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Denver Plant safety composite

Denver Plant scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 72% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.7

2018→2024

Denver Plant injury rate improved

Denver Plant's TCR fell 1.7 from 3.0 in 2018 to 1.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 5.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.31× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=3.0 · 2020=2.5 · 2021=4.0 · 2022=5.1 · 2023=2.2 · 2024=1.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311919 · Denver, CO AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 3.0 · 74% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #1/4
  • PHOTO Shearer's Foods - Ne…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 77 inj
  • SIZE ~430 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Shearer's Foods - Newport (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · Colorado employers → · Look up another →

Denver Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Denver Plant averages 3.0 TCR (74% of the Other Snack Food Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Denver Plant TCR series: 2018=3 · 2020=2.5 · 2021=4 · 2022=5.1 · 2023=2.2 · 2024=1.4 · BLS 4.1

Where Denver Plant falls in its industry

253 Other Snack Food Manufacturing establishments

Safer than 55% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

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 4 Other Snack Food Manufacturing employers in Colorado.

Denver Plant (430 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Denver Plant
Denver Plant (430 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Denver Plant has more employees than the Other Snack Food Manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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 1.4 0.9 6 0 0
2023 2.2 1.1 12 0 0
2022 5.1 2.7 26 2 0
2021 4.0 3.4 20 0 0
2020 2.5 1.2 2 0 0
2018 3.0 1.1 11 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311919 · CO · Denver

253 Other Snack Food Manufacturing 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 Shearer's Foods - Newport 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR CASA GRANDE PLANT 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Snyder's Lance Kettle Ct. 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR LIBERTY PLANT 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE 05500001-055001 LONGMONT UNITED HOSPITAL 430 FTE
STATE-SIZE SiteWise Corporation 432 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 1231 428 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 1001 428 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 Hein Brothers, LLC 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Bowling Green Holiday Inn 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Hastings 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR McAnany Construction, Inc. 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Classic Industrial Services, Inc. 430 FTE
NAT-SIZE Total Network Manufacturing LLC 430 FTE
NAT-SIZE CAR-FRESHNER Corporation 430 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sofo Foods of Ohio 430 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, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2018. 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.