Hardware, plastics, manufacturing · Colorado

Otter Products Salazar

Name: Otter Products Salazar Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Frederick, CO · ~1,048 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 3.6
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Otter Products Salazar runs at 109% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Hardware, plastics, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Otter Products Salazar: 3.6 TCR = 109% of Hardware, plastics, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Otter Products Salazar safety composite

Otter Products Salazar scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 41%), 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).

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 3.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers
DART rate: D 2.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers
Fatalities: D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Otter Products Salazar: 1.9 → 4.3 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 4.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.64× in 2018

Otter Products Salazar's TCR rose 2.3 from 1.9 in 2016 to 4.3 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 4.6 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.64× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326199 · Frederick, CO ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade C · TCR 3.6 · 109% of ind

DART 2.3 DART
RANK #17/32
PHOTO Adapt
BOOK 3y book
INJ 65 inj
SIZE ~1,048 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Adapt (0.0 TCR gap)

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Adrian Inteva

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Virtual Polyme

3.6

What this shows Otter Products Salazar averages 3.6 TCR (109% of the Hardware, plastics, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Otter Products Salazar TCR series: 2016=1.9 · 2017=4.6 · 2018=4.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Otter Products Salazar falls in its industry

2,838 Hardware, plastics, manufactur establishments

Safer than 49% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Colorado alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 32 Hardware, plastics, manufactur employers in Colorado.

Otter Products Salazar (1,048 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Otter Products Salazar has more employees than the Hardware, plastics, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2018	4.3	2.3	24
2017	4.6	2.7	24
2016	1.9	0.7	17

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326199 · CO · Frederick

2,838 Hardware, plastics, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,007 rated employers in Colorado with headcount on file · 39 employers in Frederick, CO · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Adapt	LOVES PARK, IL	3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Decoration and Assembly	WARREN, PA	3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Adrian Inteva	ADRIAN, MI	3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Virtual Polymer Compounds	GETZVILLE, NY	3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE	RMC	ENGLEWOOD	1,047 FTE
STATE-SIZE	9277-100 VAIL MTN	VAIL	1,053 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Community Hospital	GRAND JUNCTION	1,062 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Ball Corporate Campus Denver	BROOMFIELD	1,066 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Otter Products - Salazar	Frederick	519 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Otter Products - Frederick Distribution Center	Frederick	408 FTE
CITY-NEAR	UMC, Inc - Colorado	Frederick	217 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Frederick, CO	Frederick	180 FTE
NAT-TCR	Lex Rd	Winston Salem, NC	3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Tulane University-Health Sciences Center	New Orleans, LA	3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	HCNE	Bellingham, MA	3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Shopko Hometown #608 (Brillion, WI)	Brillion, WI	3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Collaboration Center	Bentonville, AR	1,048 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Fowler Packing Company	Fresno, CA	1,048 FTE
NAT-SIZE	ASHN	Kettering, OH	1,048 FTE
NAT-SIZE	South Lyon Community Schools - 63240	South Lyon, MI	1,048 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.