Caisson (i.e., drilled building foundations) construction · Colorado

Ludwig Drilling LLC

Castle Rock, CO · ~31 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

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

Ludwig Drilling LLC runs at 98% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Caisson (i.e., drilled building foundations) construction workplace, earning a grade C.

Ludwig Drilling LLC: 2.8 TCR = 98% of Caisson (i.e., drilled building foundations) construction BLS 2.8 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ludwig Drilling LLC safety composite

Ludwig Drilling LLC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 77% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 46%), 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

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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%).

TCR Δ

−7.5

2016→2024

Ludwig Drilling LLC injury rate improved

Ludwig Drilling LLC's TCR fell 7.5 from 7.5 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 7.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.5 · 2017=5.7 · 2018=2.8 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=3.2 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238910 · Castle Rock, CO AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.8 · 98% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #19/48
  • PHOTO Urban N. Zink Contra…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~31 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Urban N. Zink Contractor, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ludwig Drilling LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ludwig Drilling LLC averages 2.8 TCR (98% of the Caisson (i.e., drilled building foundations) construction BLS benchmark).

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

Ludwig Drilling LLC TCR series: 2016=7.5 · 2017=5.7 · 2018=2.8 · 2019=0 · 2020=3.2 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.8

Where Ludwig Drilling LLC falls in its industry

1,750 Caisson (i.e., drilled buildin establishments

Safer than 46% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

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 48 Caisson (i.e., drilled buildin employers in Colorado.

Ludwig Drilling LLC (31 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Ludwig Drilling LLC
Ludwig Drilling LLC (31 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Ludwig Drilling LLC has fewer employees than the Caisson (i.e., drilled building foundati median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 3.2 3.2 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 2.8 0.0 1 0 0
2017 5.7 0.0 2 0 0
2016 7.5 7.5 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238910 · CO · Castle Rock

1,750 Caisson (i.e., drilled building foundations) construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,007 rated employers in Colorado with headcount on file · 75 employers in Castle Rock, 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 Urban N. Zink Contractor, Inc. 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Barco-Duval Engineering Inc. 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Civil Site Services, Inc. 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ernest Manning Construction 2.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Strad USA Inc. 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Heorot Power Management, LLC 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE San Isabel Electric Association-Pueblo West E&O 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brighton Service Center-275 31 FTE
CITY-NEAR Great Southwestern Construction, Inc. 977 FTE
CITY-NEAR Castle Rock Adventist Hospital 903 FTE
CITY-NEAR CastleRock Adventist Hospital 690 FTE
CITY-NEAR AdventHealth Castle Rock 684 FTE
NAT-TCR Green Ag Management, LLC 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR TLC Ingredients, Inc. 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Electro-Miniatures Corp. 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR UP Paper LLC 2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Dairy Queen 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE T-E Incorporated 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE FSI Acquisition Inc. 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Courtyard Retirement and Assisted Living 31 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.