Animal feed mills (except dog and cat) manufacturing · Colorado

Ranch-Way Feeds

Fort Collins, CO · ~39 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.6
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ranch-Way Feeds runs at 144% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Animal feed mills (except dog and cat) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Ranch-Way Feeds: 5.6 TCR = 144% of Animal feed mills (except dog and cat) manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ranch-Way Feeds safety composite

Ranch-Way Feeds scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 25%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% 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

−6.8

2017→2022

Ranch-Way Feeds injury rate improved

Ranch-Way Feeds's TCR fell 6.8 from 9.1 in 2017 to 2.3 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2017 at 9.1 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.4× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=9.1 · 2018=5.6 · 2019=9.0 · 2020=2.1 · 2022=2.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311119 · Fort Collins, CO ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.6 · 144% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK #9/12
  • PHOTO Godfreys Feed
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~39 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Godfreys Feed (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ranch-Way Feeds in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ranch-Way Feeds averages 5.6 TCR (144% of the Animal feed mills (except dog and cat) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Ranch-Way Feeds TCR series: 2017=9.1 · 2018=5.6 · 2019=9 · 2020=2.1 · 2022=2.3 · BLS 3.9

Where Ranch-Way Feeds falls in its industry

756 Animal feed mills (except dog establishments

Safer than 25% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Colorado alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 12 Animal feed mills (except dog employers in Colorado.

Ranch-Way Feeds (39 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 050100150200 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Ranch-Way Feeds
Ranch-Way Feeds (39 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Ranch-Way Feeds has more employees than the Animal feed mills (except dog and cat) m 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 Illnesses Fatalities
2022 2.3 2.3 1 0 0
2020 2.1 2.1 1 0 0
2019 9.0 6.8 4 0 0
2018 5.6 5.6 2 0 0
2017 9.1 1.8 4 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311119 · CO · Fort Collins

756 Animal feed mills (except dog and cat) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,007 rated employers in Colorado with headcount on file · 268 employers in Fort Collins, 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 Godfreys Feed 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 801 Spring Creek Road 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Humboldt Feed Mill 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR WILSON MILL & BAKERY - EST 5.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Los Suenos 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE RimRock Oil & Gas 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corporate 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Vantage 39 FTE
CITY-NEAR Poudre Valley Hospital 1,772 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fort Collins 1,285 FTE
CITY-NEAR New Belgium Brewing Company: Fort Collins 759 FTE
CITY-NEAR Woodward Inc. - Lincoln Campus Facility 725 FTE
NAT-TCR Tops #433 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 490 - Moore 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Whitman 11733 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Holy Cross Hospital-Germantown 5.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE V12 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Magnum Custom Trailer Mfg Co, Inc. 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Miller Group Inc 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE HarHos Management, LLC 39 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: 2022, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.