Creamery butter manufacturing · Colorado

Epicurean Butter

Thornton, CO · ~53 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Epicurean Butter runs at 155% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Creamery butter manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Epicurean Butter: 5.1 TCR = 155% of Creamery butter manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Epicurean Butter safety composite

Epicurean Butter scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 17%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Epicurean Butter: 2.0 → 8.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 8.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.21× in 2024

Epicurean Butter's TCR rose 6.3 from 2.0 in 2023 to 8.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.21× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311512 · Thornton, CO ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.1 · 155% of ind

  • DART 6.2 DART
  • RANK P34
  • PHOTO Foremost Farms USA (…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~53 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Foremost Farms USA (Reedsburg, WI) (0.1 TCR gap)

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Epicurean Butter in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Epicurean Butter averages 5.1 TCR (155% of the Creamery butter manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Epicurean Butter TCR series: 2023=2 · 2024=8.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Epicurean Butter falls in its industry

32 Creamery butter manufacturing establishments

Safer than 34% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Epicurean Butter (53 employees, TCR 5.1) among 23 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 112 employees and a TCR of 4.2 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 24 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 0200400600800 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Epicurean Butter
Epicurean Butter (53 employees, TCR 5.1) among 23 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 112 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Epicurean Butter has fewer employees than the Creamery butter manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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 8.3 6.2 4 0 0
2023 2.0 2.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311512 · CO · Thornton

32 Creamery butter manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,007 rated employers in Colorado with headcount on file · 96 employers in Thornton, 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 Foremost Farms USA (Reedsburg, WI) 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR West Point Dairy Products LLC 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2453-00060351-60351O 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR West Point Dairy Products Nebraska 5.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Granby 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3022265 - DEN Great Hall Phase 3B 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Provident Construction 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Diesslin Structures Inc 53 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - DEN3 3,070 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : DEN3 2,522 FTE
CITY-NEAR North Suburban Medical Center 822 FTE
CITY-NEAR Brundage-Bone Concrete Pumping 818 FTE
NAT-TCR Fort Knox 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Microplastics Inc 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Tiny Town 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Kalman Manufacturing Inc 5.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Elizabeth NJ TSDF 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sonata East at Viera 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Auberge at North Ogden 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sonata Viera 53 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. 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.