Herb farming, grown under cover · Colorado

Franklin South

Denver, CO · ~23 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Franklin South runs at 269% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Herb farming, grown under cover workplace, earning a grade F.

Franklin South: 12.1 TCR = 269% of Herb farming, grown under cover BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Franklin South safety composite

Franklin South scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 8%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% 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

Franklin South: 0.0 → 5.0 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 31.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2021

Franklin South's TCR rose 5.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 5.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 31.0 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111419 · Denver, CO ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 12.1 · 269% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #17/18
  • PHOTO Copperstate Farms Ma…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Copperstate Farms Management LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Franklin South in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Franklin South averages 12.1 TCR (269% of the Herb farming, grown under cover BLS benchmark).

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

Franklin South TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=12.4 · 2018=31 · 2019=7.2 · 2020=16.9 · 2021=5 · BLS 4.5

Where Franklin South falls in its industry

251 Herb farming, grown under cove establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Colorado alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 18 Herb farming, grown under cove employers in Colorado.

Franklin South (23 employees, TCR 12.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 75 employees and a TCR of 4.9 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 0200400600 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Franklin South
Franklin South (23 employees, TCR 12.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 75 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Franklin South has fewer employees than the Herb farming, grown under cover median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.9. 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
2021 5.0 0.0 1 0 0
2020 16.9 0.0 3 0 0
2019 7.2 3.6 2 0 0
2018 31.0 0.0 3 0 0
2017 12.4 12.4 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111419 · CO · Denver

251 Herb farming, grown under cover 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 Metric
NAICS-TCR Copperstate Farms Management LLC 12.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Steele 12.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sozo Health Inc 12.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Watsonville/San Juan Bautista 12.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE CSS Farms, LLC Colorado City, CO 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Green Solution LLC 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greenfield Environmental Operations, LLC 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE BHSC - Pueblo PAGS (CO015) 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR DEN DEN 9,832 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6925-DEN 6,769 FTE
CITY-NEAR DEN - Airport United Airlines Offices 5,277 FTE
CITY-NEAR CO-01 4,581 FTE
NAT-TCR Hickory Nursing Pavilion 12.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Encompass Health of Concord 12.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Guerrero Transportation & Contracting Inc 12.1 TCR
NAT-TCR CLL 12.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #4170 DUARTE, CA 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #5257 Livingston, NJ 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #4243 NEWARK, CA 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Oak Creek Apartments 23 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 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.