Rebar contractors · Colorado

Gerdau- CO Placing

Denver, CO · ~27 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.5
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Gerdau- CO Placing runs at 410% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Rebar contractors workplace, earning a grade F.

Gerdau- CO Placing: 11.5 TCR = 410% of Rebar contractors BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gerdau- CO Placing safety composite

Gerdau- CO Placing scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
F 16.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

Gerdau- CO Placing: 6.8 → 16.2 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 16.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.41× in 2017

Gerdau- CO Placing's TCR rose 9.4 from 6.8 in 2016 to 16.2 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 1.41× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238120 · Denver, CO ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.5 · 410% of ind

  • DART 16.2 DART
  • RANK #22/27
  • PHOTO Tangerine Road
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Tangerine Road (0.1 TCR gap)

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Gerdau- CO Placing in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gerdau- CO Placing averages 11.5 TCR (410% of the Rebar contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Gerdau- CO Placing TCR series: 2016=6.8 · 2017=16.2 · BLS 2.8

Where Gerdau- CO Placing falls in its industry

705 Rebar contractors establishments

Safer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Colorado alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #22 safest of 27 Rebar contractors employers in Colorado.

Gerdau- CO Placing (27 employees, TCR 11.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 050100150200250 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Gerdau- CO Placing
Gerdau- CO Placing (27 employees, TCR 11.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Gerdau- CO Placing has fewer employees than the Rebar contractors median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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
2017 16.2 16.2 2 1 0
2016 6.8 6.8 1 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238120 · CO · Denver

705 Rebar contractors 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 Tangerine Road 11.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR American Bridge Company - 482210 11.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR San Joaquin Steel Co, Inc. 11.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Steel Erectors Inc 11.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE CSS Farms - Colorado City 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Progressive Agricultural Management, LLC 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bohler Well Service LLC 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE white river electric associaiton 27 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 Service 5210 11.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Lefeld Welding & Steel Supplies, Inc. 11.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Grace Living Center - Stillwater 11.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Capitol Land & Livestock Trucks, Inc. 11.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE U.S office- Sales & Distribution- Lewmar Inc. 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Midwest Scrap Management PC 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0346 - Hialeah, Fl 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0296 - Spokane, Wa 27 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: 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.