Building materials supply dealers · Colorado

Specialty Appliance CO Springs

Colorado Springs, CO · ~17 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
18.4
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Specialty Appliance CO Springs runs at 541% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Building materials supply dealers workplace, earning a grade F.

Specialty Appliance CO Springs: 18.4 TCR = 541% of Building materials supply dealers BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Specialty Appliance CO Springs safety composite

Specialty Appliance CO Springs scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 1%), 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

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 18.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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%).

TCR Δ

−11.3

2020→2024

Specialty Appliance CO Springs injury rate improved

Specialty Appliance CO Springs's TCR fell 11.3 from 24.0 in 2020 to 12.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 24.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.46× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=24.0 · 2024=12.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444180 · Colorado Springs, CO ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 18.4 · 541% of ind

  • DART 8.5 DART
  • RANK #12/12
  • PHOTO Shaw Building Supply…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~17 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Shaw Building Supply, Inc. (0.1 TCR gap)

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Specialty Appliance CO Springs in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Specialty Appliance CO Springs averages 18.4 TCR (541% of the Building materials supply dealers BLS benchmark).

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

Specialty Appliance CO Springs TCR series: 2020=24 · 2024=12.7 · BLS 3.4

Where Specialty Appliance CO Springs falls in its industry

280 Building materials supply deal establishments

Safer than 1% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

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 12 Building materials supply deal employers in Colorado.

Specialty Appliance CO Springs (17 employees, TCR 18.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 34 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 020406080100 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Specialty Appliance CO Springs
Specialty Appliance CO Springs (17 employees, TCR 18.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 34 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Specialty Appliance CO Springs has fewer employees than the Building materials supply dealers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 12.7 8.5 3 0 0
2020 24.0 24.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444180 · CO · Colorado Springs

280 Building materials supply dealers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,007 rated employers in Colorado with headcount on file · 832 employers in Colorado Springs, CO · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Shaw Building Supply, Inc. 18.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2762_5268 21.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Specialty Appliance Warehouse 15.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Friel Lumber Company LLC 14.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Platteville Dairy 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Intermountain Rural Electric Association-Woodland Park 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE San Isabel Electric Association- Bear Creek 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE DSP Builders, Inc. 17 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Colorado Hospital Memorial Central 3,102 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - DEN4 2,948 FTE
CITY-NEAR Penrose Hospital 2,841 FTE
CITY-NEAR 05070001-050701 PENROSE HOSPITAL 2,391 FTE
NAT-TCR Whatcom Humane Society 18.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Winder Healthcare and Rehab 18.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Rosewood Avenue IRA 18.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 308 N. Railroad Ave 18.4 TCR

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, 2020. 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.