Herb farming, grown under cover · Colorado

Rocky Mountain Tillage, Steele, LLC

Denver, CO · ~171 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Rocky Mountain Tillage, Steele, LLC runs at 295% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Herb farming, grown under cover workplace, earning a grade F.

Rocky Mountain Tillage, Steele, LLC: 13.3 TCR = 295% of Herb farming, grown under cover BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Rocky Mountain Tillage, Steele, LLC safety composite

Rocky Mountain Tillage, Steele, LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 13.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 13.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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

Rocky Mountain Tillage, Steele, LLC: 13.0 → 13.6 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 13.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.02× in 2022

Rocky Mountain Tillage, Steele, LLC's TCR rose 0.6 from 13.0 in 2021 to 13.6 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1.02× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111419 · Denver, CO ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 13.3 · 295% of ind

  • DART 13.6 DART
  • RANK #18/18
  • PHOTO AppHarvest Morehead …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~171 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: AppHarvest Morehead Farm LLC. (0.3 TCR gap)

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Rocky Mountain Tillage, Steele, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Rocky Mountain Tillage, Steele, LLC averages 13.3 TCR (295% of the Herb farming, grown under cover BLS benchmark).

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

Rocky Mountain Tillage, Steele, LLC TCR series: 2021=13 · 2022=13.6 · BLS 4.5

Where Rocky Mountain Tillage, Steele, LLC falls in its industry

251 Herb farming, grown under cove establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Colorado alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 18 Herb farming, grown under cove employers in Colorado.

Rocky Mountain Tillage, Steele, LLC (171 employees, TCR 13.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 75 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Rocky Mountain Tillage, Steele, LLC
Rocky Mountain Tillage, Steele, LLC (171 employees, TCR 13.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 75 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Rocky Mountain Tillage, Steele, LLC has more employees than the Herb farming, grown under cover 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
2022 13.6 13.6 16 0 0
2021 13.0 13.0 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111419 · CO · Denver

251 Herb farming, grown under cover employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,007 rated employers in Colorado with headcount on file · 1,757 employers in Denver, 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 AppHarvest Morehead Farm LLC. 12.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wegmans Organic Farm ORGF 13.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Holistic Industries LLC 13.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Parallel 12.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE DFA FLUID - ENGLEWOOD CO 171 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fresca Foods - CTC 171 FTE
STATE-SIZE Charlotte's Web 171 FTE
STATE-SIZE Electro-Mechanical Products, Inc. 171 FTE
CITY-NEAR DEN DEN 9,832 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6925-DEN 6,769 FTE
CITY-NEAR DEN - Airport United Airlines Offices 5,277 FTE
CITY-NEAR CO-01 4,581 FTE
NAT-TCR 6400-SWY-0027-0027-00544 13.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 353015-Fredonia Po 13.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Southeastern Foundries Corp 13.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 161576-Chi-Otis Grant Collins Sta 13.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mountain Area Health Education Center, Inc. / Education Building 171 FTE
NAT-SIZE Southern Indiana Rehabilitation Hospital 171 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Y Foods, Inc. South Hadley 171 FTE
NAT-SIZE MGB plant 171 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, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.