Railroad, scenic and sightseeing, operation · Colorado

Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad

Durango, CO · ~185 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad runs at 96% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Railroad, scenic and sightseeing, operation workplace, earning a grade C.

Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad: 4.3 TCR = 96% of Railroad, scenic and sightseeing, operation BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad safety composite

Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 63% 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

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% 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%).

Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad held a steady TCR band

Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad's TCR held near 0.3 from 4.2 in 2016 to 4.5 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.34× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.2 · 2018=4.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 487110 · Durango, CO AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 4.3 · 96% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK P56
  • PHOTO Platypus Tours Limited
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~185 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Platypus Tours Limited (0.2 TCR gap)

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Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad averages 4.3 TCR (96% of the Railroad, scenic and sightseeing, operation BLS benchmark).

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

Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad TCR series: 2016=4.2 · 2018=4.5 · BLS 4.5

Where Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad falls in its industry

52 Railroad, scenic and sightseei establishments

Safer than 56% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad (185 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad
Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad (185 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad has more employees than the Railroad, scenic and sightseeing, operat median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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
2018 4.5 1.5 6 0 0
2016 4.2 0.7 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

487110 · CO · Durango

52 Railroad, scenic and sightseeing, operation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,007 rated employers in Colorado with headcount on file · 83 employers in Durango, 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 Platypus Tours Limited 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Juneau Tranportation 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Conch Tour Train Inc 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Harold Archer & Son 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Derr and Gruenewald Construction 185 FTE
STATE-SIZE CD Specialty Contractors 185 FTE
STATE-SIZE Prime Window Systems 185 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMP Robotics - Colorado Headquarters/P1 185 FTE
CITY-NEAR Conservation Legacy 2,341 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Regional Medical Centura 1,184 FTE
CITY-NEAR Crossfire LLC Corporate office 1,106 FTE
CITY-NEAR Crossfire 934 FTE
NAT-TCR Cort Acre Egg Farm 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 1001-04 GoJet ORD In-Flight 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Imperial Dade Jacksonville 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Community Housing Network, Inc. 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE TI Group Automotive Systems - Greeneville 185 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sherwood Foods-Atlanta 185 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mapleshire 185 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pitts Trailers - Pittsview 185 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: 2018, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.