Drilling gas and oil field wells on a contract basis · Colorado

Ensign United States Drilling Inc.

Name: Ensign United States Drilling Inc. Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Denver, CO · ~635 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 1.7
Avg TCR: 1.9
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Ensign United States Drilling Inc. runs at 91% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Drilling gas and oil field wells on a contract basis workplace, earning a grade C.

Ensign United States Drilling Inc.: 1.7 TCR = 91% of Drilling gas and oil field wells on a contract basis BLS 1.9 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ensign United States Drilling Inc. safety composite

Ensign United States Drilling Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 42%), 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).

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 1.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers
DART rate: D 0.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% 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%).

Ensign United States Drilling Inc. held a steady TCR band

Ensign United States Drilling Inc.'s TCR held near 0.0 from 1.7 in 2017 to 1.7 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.43× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=1.7 · 2018=1.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 213111 · Denver, CO AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 1.7 · 91% of ind

DART 0.7 DART
RANK #5/8
PHOTO Big Dog Drilling
BOOK 2y book
INJ 13 inj
SIZE ~635 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Big Dog Drilling (0.0 TCR gap)

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Rig 129

1.8
This site

1.7
Big Dog Drilli

1.7
Hall Drilling

1.7
Cactus Drillin

1.7

What this shows Ensign United States Drilling Inc. averages 1.7 TCR (91% of the Drilling gas and oil field wells on a contract basis BLS benchmark).

Ensign United States Drilling Inc. TCR series: 2017=1.7 · 2018=1.7 · BLS 1.9

Where Ensign United States Drilling Inc. falls in its industry

171 Drilling gas and oil field wel establishments

Safer than 42% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.6.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Colorado alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 8 Drilling gas and oil field wel employers in Colorado.

Ensign United States Drilling Inc. (635 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 97 employees and a TCR of 1.6

Ensign United States Drilling Inc. has more employees than the Drilling gas and oil field wells on a co median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.6. 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	1.7	0.7	7	0	0
2017	1.7	1.4	6	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

213111 · CO · Denver

171 Drilling gas and oil field wells on a contract basis 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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Big Dog Drilling	MIDLAND, TX	1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Hall Drilling	ELLENBORO, WV	1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Rig 129	OKLAHOMA CITY, OK	1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Cactus Drilling Rig 154	OKLAHOMA CITY, OK	1.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE	CO-Colorado Springs	COLORADO SPRINGS	636 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Westminster AMC/WMR	WESTMINSTER	638 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Longmont United Hospital	LONGMONT	638 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Otter Products HQ	FORT COLLINS	640 FTE
CITY-NEAR	DEN DEN	Denver	9,832 FTE
CITY-NEAR	6925-DEN	Denver	6,769 FTE
CITY-NEAR	DEN - Airport United Airlines Offices	Denver	5,277 FTE
CITY-NEAR	CO-01	Denver	4,581 FTE
NAT-TCR	Goodrich AL - Opa-Locka	Miami Gardens, FL	1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Trumbull-Great Lakes-Ruelin, A Joint Venture	Cleveland, PA	1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Southern Chrysler Jeep	Chesapeake, VA	1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Buffalo Location	Buffalo, NY	1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE	ASRC Energy Services	Anchorage, AK	635 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Southland Park Gaming and Racing	West Memphis, AR	635 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Integrated DNA Technologies, Inc. Corporate Headquarters	Coralville, IA	635 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Ach Mercy Hospital - Council Bluffs	Council Bluffs, IA	635 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, 2017. 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.