Milk processing (e.g., bottling, homogenizing, pasteurizing, vitaminizing) manufacturing · Colorado

Royal Crest Dairy, Inc

Denver, CO · ~249 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Royal Crest Dairy, Inc runs at 345% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Milk processing (e.g., bottling, homogenizing, pasteurizing, vitaminizing) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Royal Crest Dairy, Inc: 11.4 TCR = 345% of Milk processing (e.g., bottling, homogenizing, pasteurizing, vitaminizing) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Royal Crest Dairy, Inc safety composite

Royal Crest Dairy, Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 6%), 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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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

Royal Crest Dairy, Inc: 8.2 → 10.2 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 14.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.66× in 2024

Royal Crest Dairy, Inc's TCR rose 2.0 from 8.2 in 2021 to 10.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 14.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.66× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311511 · Denver, CO ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 11.4 · 345% of ind

  • DART 7.5 DART
  • RANK #12/13
  • PHOTO Upstate Niagara Coop…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 107 inj
  • SIZE ~249 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Upstate Niagara Cooperative Inc - Rochester (0.0 TCR gap)

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Royal Crest Dairy, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Royal Crest Dairy, Inc averages 11.4 TCR (345% of the Milk processing (e.g., bottling, homogenizing, pasteurizing, vitaminizing) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Royal Crest Dairy, Inc TCR series: 2021=8.2 · 2022=12.8 · 2023=14.3 · 2024=10.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Royal Crest Dairy, Inc falls in its industry

457 Milk processing (e.g., bottlin establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Colorado alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 13 Milk processing (e.g., bottlin employers in Colorado.

Royal Crest Dairy, Inc (249 employees, TCR 11.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 140 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Royal Crest Dairy, Inc
Royal Crest Dairy, Inc (249 employees, TCR 11.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 140 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Royal Crest Dairy, Inc has more employees than the Milk processing (e.g., bottling, homogen median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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
2024 10.2 7.5 25 1 0
2023 14.3 10.9 33 1 0
2022 12.8 8.3 31 0 0
2021 8.2 8.2 18 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311511 · CO · Denver

457 Milk processing (e.g., bottling, homogenizing, pasteurizing, vitaminizing) manufacturing 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 Upstate Niagara Cooperative Inc - Rochester 11.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hiland Dairy Omaha Plant 11.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR HP Hood, LLC- Barre, VT 11.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Prairie Farms Dairy 11.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Del IPS Company, Inc. 249 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1384 249 FTE
STATE-SIZE Grand Junction, Colorado, Site 249 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Center at Rock Creek 249 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 Amazon.com Services LLC - DLR2 11.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Crockett Enterprises, Inc. 11.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Smith's Mill Health Campus 11.4 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Bothell 11.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE 273 - Mokena 249 FTE
NAT-SIZE 191 - Plainwell 249 FTE
NAT-SIZE 163 - Port Huron 249 FTE
NAT-SIZE TCC Corporate 249 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, 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.