Cultivators, farm-type, manufacturing · Colorado

Nichols Tillage Tools, Inc. - CO

Sterling, CO · ~139 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
16.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Nichols Tillage Tools, Inc. - CO runs at 509% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cultivators, farm-type, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Nichols Tillage Tools, Inc. - CO: 16.8 TCR = 509% of Cultivators, farm-type, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nichols Tillage Tools, Inc. - CO safety composite

Nichols Tillage Tools, Inc. - CO scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 4%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 16.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.8

2023→2024

Nichols Tillage Tools, Inc. - CO injury rate improved

Nichols Tillage Tools, Inc. - CO's TCR fell 1.8 from 17.7 in 2023 to 15.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 17.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.35× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=17.7 · 2024=15.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333111 · Sterling, CO ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 16.8 · 509% of ind

  • DART 6.0 DART
  • RANK #8/8
  • PHOTO Wil-Rich
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 40 inj
  • SIZE ~139 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Wil-Rich (0.0 TCR gap)

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Nichols Tillage Tools, Inc. - CO in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Nichols Tillage Tools, Inc. - CO averages 16.8 TCR (509% of the Cultivators, farm-type, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Nichols Tillage Tools, Inc. - CO TCR series: 2023=17.7 · 2024=15.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Nichols Tillage Tools, Inc. - CO falls in its industry

433 Cultivators, farm-type, manufa establishments

Safer than 4% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Colorado alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 8 Cultivators, farm-type, manufa employers in Colorado.

Nichols Tillage Tools, Inc. - CO (139 employees, TCR 16.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.2 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 05001,0001,5002,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Nichols Tillage Tools, Inc. - CO
Nichols Tillage Tools, Inc. - CO (139 employees, TCR 16.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Nichols Tillage Tools, Inc. - CO has more employees than the Cultivators, farm-type, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.2. 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 15.9 6.0 16 0 0
2023 17.7 7.5 24 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333111 · CO · Sterling

433 Cultivators, farm-type, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,007 rated employers in Colorado with headcount on file · 29 employers in Sterling, 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 Wil-Rich 16.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rivulis Irrigation Madera 16.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Broekema Beltway USA, Inc. - CA 17.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Horsch LLC 16.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE M755-M001 139 FTE
STATE-SIZE Metro Paving Indirect 139 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2807-2419 139 FTE
STATE-SIZE 620-00103 139 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 924 300 FTE
CITY-NEAR 924 299 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nichols Tillage Tools 131 FTE
CITY-NEAR Devonshire Acres 129 FTE
NAT-TCR Police Department 16.8 TCR
NAT-TCR QLS Sarver 16.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Running with Lions Logistics 16.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Cicero Amazon Station 16.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE River City Drywall & Painting 139 FTE
NAT-SIZE CA-Antelope Valley S/C 139 FTE
NAT-SIZE STR0678 139 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Lisle 139 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. 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.