Sign, building, erection · Colorado

Freeman Signs

Denver, CO · ~41 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.4
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Freeman Signs runs at 120% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Sign, building, erection workplace, earning a grade C.

Freeman Signs: 3.4 TCR = 120% of Sign, building, erection BLS 2.8 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Freeman Signs safety composite

Freeman Signs scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 27%), 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

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Freeman Signs: 0.0 → 2.5 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 6.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.76× in 2023

Freeman Signs's TCR rose 2.5 from 0.0 in 2017 to 2.5 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2020 at 6.4 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.76× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238990 · Denver, CO ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.4 · 120% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK #19/36
  • PHOTO Heede Southeast
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~41 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Heede Southeast (0.0 TCR gap)

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Freeman Signs in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Freeman Signs averages 3.4 TCR (120% of the Sign, building, erection BLS benchmark).

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

Freeman Signs TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=2.3 · 2019=2.3 · 2020=6.4 · 2021=4.6 · 2022=5.3 · 2023=2.5 · BLS 2.8

Where Freeman Signs falls in its industry

1,634 Sign, building, erection establishments

Safer than 34% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Colorado alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #19 safest of 36 Sign, building, erection employers in Colorado.

Freeman Signs (41 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 1.9 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 05001,0001,500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Freeman Signs
Freeman Signs (41 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Freeman Signs has fewer employees than the Sign, building, erection median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. 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
2023 2.5 2.5 1 0 0
2022 5.3 5.3 2 0 0
2021 4.6 4.6 2 0 0
2020 6.4 4.3 3 0 0
2019 2.3 2.3 1 0 0
2018 2.3 2.3 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238990 · CO · Denver

1,634 Sign, building, erection 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 Heede Southeast 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Watson Outdoor Services, Inc. 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR BROTHERS STANDARD STRIPING, LLC 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR R & F Metals, Inc. 3.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Colorado Beef 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gilcrest Feedlot 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE TORTUGA AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC. 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Montrose Maintenance Center 41 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 Wes-Del Community Schools 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Transportation Services Inc 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Rock Island Dam (Location) 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR SouthWest Water Company Pflugerville Office 3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Buchanan Construction, LLC 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Us Autoforce Des Moines 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE POET Biorefining - Hanlontown LLC 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Yellowstone Traditions, Inc 41 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.