Field nurseries (i.e., growing of flowers and shrubbery) · Colorado

Olson's Greenhouse of Colorado, LLC

Fort Lupton, CO · ~129 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Olson's Greenhouse of Colorado, LLC runs at 126% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Field nurseries (i.e., growing of flowers and shrubbery) workplace, earning a grade D.

Olson's Greenhouse of Colorado, LLC: 5.7 TCR = 126% of Field nurseries (i.e., growing of flowers and shrubbery) BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Olson's Greenhouse of Colorado, LLC safety composite

Olson's Greenhouse of Colorado, LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 38%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% 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

Olson's Greenhouse of Colorado, LLC: 1.8 → 6.3 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 8.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.56× in 2018

Olson's Greenhouse of Colorado, LLC's TCR rose 4.6 from 1.8 in 2016 to 6.3 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 8.9 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.56× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111421 · Fort Lupton, CO ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.7 · 126% of ind

  • DART 3.2 DART
  • RANK P38
  • PHOTO Puget Sound Plants I…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 25 inj
  • SIZE ~129 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Puget Sound Plants Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Olson's Greenhouse of Colorado, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Olson's Greenhouse of Colorado, LLC averages 5.7 TCR (126% of the Field nurseries (i.e., growing of flowers and shrubbery) BLS benchmark).

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

Olson's Greenhouse of Colorado, LLC TCR series: 2016=1.8 · 2017=8.9 · 2018=6.3 · BLS 4.5

Where Olson's Greenhouse of Colorado, LLC falls in its industry

386 Field nurseries (i.e., growing establishments

Safer than 38% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Olson's Greenhouse of Colorado, LLC (129 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.9 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Olson's Greenhouse of Colorado, LLC
Olson's Greenhouse of Colorado, LLC (129 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Olson's Greenhouse of Colorado, LLC has more employees than the Field nurseries (i.e., growing of flower median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.9. 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
2018 6.3 3.2 11 1 0
2017 8.9 1.6 11 0 0
2016 1.8 0.6 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111421 · CO · Fort Lupton

386 Field nurseries (i.e., growing of flowers and shrubbery) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,007 rated employers in Colorado with headcount on file · 25 employers in Fort Lupton, 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 Puget Sound Plants Inc. 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Means Nursery, Inc. 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mellano & Company - Los Angeles Wholesale House 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR GOLDCOAST FARMS L.L.C 5.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Wildcat Dairy LLC 129 FTE
STATE-SIZE Crescent Point Energy US Corp 129 FTE
STATE-SIZE D.R. Horton, Inc. - Chicago 129 FTE
STATE-SIZE Company Office 129 FTE
CITY-NEAR HES Brighton, CO 948 FTE
CITY-NEAR Golden Aluminum Inc. 190 FTE
CITY-NEAR Olson's Greenhouses of Colorado, LLC 160 FTE
CITY-NEAR Summit Body Works 126 FTE
NAT-TCR Glade Run Services 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR DATTCO - Trumbull 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Forest Cove Nursing & Rehab. Center 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 7100501 - ALT Olympus Alexandria 5.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bemis North America - Lebanon 129 FTE
NAT-SIZE International Paper 129 FTE
NAT-SIZE Doubletree Cleveland East Beachwood 129 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Keeney Manufacturing Company 129 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: 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.