Models, toy and hobby (e.g., airplane, boat, ship), manufacturing · Colorado

Estes Industries LLC

Penrose, CO · ~56 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Estes Industries LLC runs at 113% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Models, toy and hobby (e.g., airplane, boat, ship), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Estes Industries LLC: 3.7 TCR = 113% of Models, toy and hobby (e.g., airplane, boat, ship), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Estes Industries LLC safety composite

Estes Industries LLC 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).

D

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.18 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

Estes Industries LLC: 0.0 → 6.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 6.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.39× in 2024

Estes Industries LLC's TCR rose 6.9 from 0.0 in 2018 to 6.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339930 · Penrose, CO ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.7 · 113% of ind

  • DART 5.2 DART
  • RANK P41
  • PHOTO Poolmaster
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~56 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Poolmaster (0.1 TCR gap)

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Estes Industries LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Estes Industries LLC averages 3.7 TCR (113% of the Models, toy and hobby (e.g., airplane, boat, ship), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Estes Industries LLC TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=6.5 · 2022=1.5 · 2023=3.8 · 2024=6.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Estes Industries LLC falls in its industry

32 Models, toy and hobby (e.g., a establishments

Safer than 41% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Estes Industries LLC (56 employees, TCR 3.7) among 15 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 3.3 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 16 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 Estes Industries LLC
Estes Industries LLC (56 employees, TCR 3.7) among 15 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Estes Industries LLC has fewer employees than the Models, toy and hobby (e.g., airplane, b median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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 6.9 5.2 4 0 0
2023 3.8 1.9 1 1 0
2022 1.5 0.0 1 0 0
2019 6.5 2.2 2 1 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339930 · CO · Penrose

32 Models, toy and hobby (e.g., airplane, boat, ship), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,007 rated employers in Colorado with headcount on file · 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 Poolmaster 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR York Road 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chessex Manufacturing Company LLC 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Funko, LLC Chatsworth 4.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE COLORADO PRODUCT SERVICES 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gateway Service Center-148 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE TRI Pointe Homes CO 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Glacier Construction Co., Inc 56 FTE
CITY-NEAR COCAN - CANON CITY CENTER 40 FTE
NAT-TCR Sedgwick Middle School 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Bags To Go 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Catalyst Oilfield Services, 2016, LLC 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Elm Creek Elementary School 3.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Anchor Bay at Pocasset 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE STR0463 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE STR0689 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Orchards 56 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, 2019, 2018. 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.