Erecting structural steel · Colorado

Starling Steel Services, Inc

Aurora, CO · ~20 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
17.6
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Starling Steel Services, Inc runs at 630% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Erecting structural steel workplace, earning a grade F.

Starling Steel Services, Inc: 17.6 TCR = 630% of Erecting structural steel BLS 2.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Starling Steel Services, Inc safety composite

Starling Steel Services, Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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 17.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 20.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

Starling Steel Services, Inc: 6.9 → 20.1 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 26.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.14× in 2024

Starling Steel Services, Inc's TCR rose 13.3 from 6.9 in 2016 to 20.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 26.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.14× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238120 · Aurora, CO ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 17.6 · 630% of ind

  • DART 20.1 DART
  • RANK #27/27
  • PHOTO Nehemiah Rebar, Inc.…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Nehemiah Rebar, Inc. - WY (0.4 TCR gap)

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Starling Steel Services, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Starling Steel Services, Inc averages 17.6 TCR (630% of the Erecting structural steel BLS benchmark).

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

Starling Steel Services, Inc TCR series: 2016=6.9 · 2021=26.1 · 2022=15.8 · 2023=19.4 · 2024=20.1 · BLS 2.8

Where Starling Steel Services, Inc falls in its industry

705 Erecting structural steel establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Colorado alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #27 safest of 27 Erecting structural steel employers in Colorado.

Starling Steel Services, Inc (20 employees, TCR 17.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Starling Steel Services, Inc
Starling Steel Services, Inc (20 employees, TCR 17.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Starling Steel Services, Inc has fewer employees than the Erecting structural steel median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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
2024 20.1 20.1 4 0 0
2023 19.4 7.8 5 0 0
2022 15.8 10.5 3 0 0
2021 26.1 20.8 5 0 0
2016 6.9 6.9 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238120 · CO · Aurora

705 Erecting structural steel employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,007 rated employers in Colorado with headcount on file · 497 employers in Aurora, 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 Nehemiah Rebar, Inc. - WY 17.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hauter Brothers Inc 16.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Morse Steel Reinforcing, LLC 16.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR IMI, Inc 16.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Trulieve - Monroe 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bledsoe Cattle Co. 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Frederick 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ravenwood 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR Children's Hospital Colorado 6,663 FTE
CITY-NEAR Raytheon_Aurora_CO 2,237 FTE
CITY-NEAR Primoris Renewable Energy 1,695 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - DEN5 1,601 FTE
NAT-TCR premier panel company 17.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Bloomington Vending 17.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Riverside Hampton Surgery Center 17.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Open Gates Farmers All Natural Creamery 17.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bethany Board and Lodge Inc 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hayden Beverage Company - Sun Valley 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Indianapolis 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Davenport 20 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, 2016. 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.