Crossties, treating · Colorado

Koppers Denver

Denver, CO · ~28 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Koppers Denver runs at 85% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Crossties, treating workplace, earning a grade C.

Koppers Denver: 2.8 TCR = 85% of Crossties, treating BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Koppers Denver safety composite

Koppers Denver scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

71/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% 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%).

Koppers Denver held a steady TCR band

Koppers Denver's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 9.0 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2017=5.0 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=9.0 · 2020=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321114 · Denver, CO AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.8 · 85% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/4
  • PHOTO Great Southern Wood …
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Great Southern Wood - Florida (0.0 TCR gap)

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Koppers Denver in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Koppers Denver averages 2.8 TCR (85% of the Crossties, treating BLS benchmark).

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

Koppers Denver TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=5 · 2018=0 · 2019=9 · 2020=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Koppers Denver falls in its industry

183 Crossties, treating establishments

Safer than 74% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Colorado alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 4 Crossties, treating employers in Colorado.

Koppers Denver (28 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 4.3 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 050100150 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Koppers Denver
Koppers Denver (28 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Koppers Denver has fewer employees than the Crossties, treating median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.3. 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
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 9.0 3.0 3 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 5.0 5.0 2 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321114 · CO · Denver

183 Crossties, treating 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 Great Southern Wood - Florida 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Carpenters Pole and Piling 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR CM Tucker Lumber of Middleburg 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bell Lumber & Pole - New Brighton 2.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE FORT COLLINS GLOBAL BARLEY RESEARCH 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Good Chemistry - Jefe 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Welby Westwood 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Front Range Farms, LLC 28 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 Turner Properties Inc - 1050 Techwood Drive NW 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Huff Construction Inc. (Corporate Office Setting) 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Drury Inn & Suites - Columbus Convention Center 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Brunswick Electric Membership Corp (Whiteville District) 2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Engineered Films Plant--Bldg 3E 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Whink Products a Division of Rust-Oleum Corporation 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sonesta ES Suites South Brunswick - Princeton 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE General Beer-Northwest, Inc.-General Beer Northwoods 28 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: 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.