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

Ensign United States Drilling Inc. - Rockies Drilling

Lasalle, CO · ~360 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
1.9
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Ensign United States Drilling Inc. - Rockies Drilling runs at 129% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Drilling gas and oil field wells on a contract basis workplace, earning a grade D.

Ensign United States Drilling Inc. - Rockies Drilling: 2.5 TCR = 129% of Drilling gas and oil field wells on a contract basis BLS 1.9 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ensign United States Drilling Inc. - Rockies Drilling safety composite

Ensign United States Drilling Inc. - Rockies Drilling scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 23% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 4%), 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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 2.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 4% 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

Ensign United States Drilling Inc. - Rockies Drilling: 0.4 → 3.6 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 3.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.22× in 2024

Ensign United States Drilling Inc. - Rockies Drilling's TCR rose 3.2 from 0.4 in 2020 to 3.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 3.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.22× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 213111 · Lasalle, CO ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 2.5 · 129% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK #7/8
  • PHOTO Rig 14
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 39 inj
  • SIZE ~360 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Rig 14 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ensign United States Drilling Inc. - Rockies Drilling in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ensign United States Drilling Inc. - Rockies Drilling averages 2.5 TCR (129% of the Drilling gas and oil field wells on a contract basis BLS benchmark).

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

Ensign United States Drilling Inc. - Rockies Drilling TCR series: 2020=0.4 · 2022=3.6 · 2023=2.1 · 2024=3.6 · BLS 1.9

Where Ensign United States Drilling Inc. - Rockies Drilling falls in its industry

171 Drilling gas and oil field wel establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Colorado alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 8 Drilling gas and oil field wel employers in Colorado.

Ensign United States Drilling Inc. - Rockies Drilling (360 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 97 employees and a TCR of 1.6 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 05001,0001,5002,000 012345 Average employees Total Case Rate Ensign United States Drilling Inc. - Rockies Drilling
Ensign United States Drilling Inc. - Rockies Drilling (360 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 97 employees and a TCR of 1.6

Ensign United States Drilling Inc. - Rockies Drilling 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
2024 3.6 3.0 11 0 0
2023 2.1 0.9 9 0 0
2022 3.6 2.8 18 0 1
2020 0.4 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

213111 · CO · Lasalle

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 · 7 employers in Lasalle, 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 Rig 14 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR LRM Encinal 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR AKITA Drilling USA Corp. 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR H&P U.S. Land - East 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sundyne LLC 360 FTE
STATE-SIZE DEN-ODFL 360 FTE
STATE-SIZE Windigo Logitsics 360 FTE
STATE-SIZE Haselden Construction 359 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ensign Well Services - Rockies 339 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ensign United States Drilling Inc. - US Well Servicing 196 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gilcrest Feedlot 41 FTE
CITY-NEAR 857 Evans, CO 21 FTE
NAT-TCR Mercy Hospital Waldron 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR NGDS-S950 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR American Phoenix 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Gilmer Warehouse, LLC Macon Whse 2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Core-Mark 360 FTE
NAT-SIZE Snap-on Milwaukee 360 FTE
NAT-SIZE Historic Davenport 360 FTE
NAT-SIZE Voyant Beauty New Albany 360 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, 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.