Herb farming, grown under cover · Colorado

Steele

Denver, CO · ~108 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Steele runs at 268% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Herb farming, grown under cover workplace, earning a grade F.

Steele: 12.1 TCR = 268% of Herb farming, grown under cover BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Steele safety composite

Steele scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 8%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% 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

−9.6

2017→2018

Steele injury rate improved

Steele's TCR fell 9.6 from 16.9 in 2017 to 7.3 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 16.9 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=16.9 · 2018=7.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 12.1 · 268% of ind

  • DART 3.6 DART
  • RANK #16/18
  • PHOTO Copperstate Farms Ma…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 27 inj
  • SIZE ~108 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Copperstate Farms Management LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Steele in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Steele averages 12.1 TCR (268% 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

Steele TCR series: 2017=16.9 · 2018=7.3 · BLS 4.5

Where Steele falls in its industry

251 Herb farming, grown under cove establishments

Safer than 8% 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 #16 safest of 18 Herb farming, grown under cove employers in Colorado.

Steele (108 employees, TCR 12.1) 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 Steele
Steele (108 employees, TCR 12.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 75 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Steele 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
2018 7.3 3.6 8 0 0
2017 16.9 11.6 19 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 Copperstate Farms Management LLC 12.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Franklin South 12.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sozo Health Inc 12.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Watsonville/San Juan Bautista 12.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mesa County Operations Center-907 108 FTE
STATE-SIZE Business 108 FTE
STATE-SIZE Modern Railway Systems - Company Wide 108 FTE
STATE-SIZE RLG - Sticker Giant 108 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 Mondo Polymer Technologies-Mancan 12.1 TCR
NAT-TCR TR Post Management LLC 12.1 TCR
NAT-TCR #71 Art Van Lansing 12.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Kellex Seating 410 Hogan St. 12.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Abington Manor 108 FTE
NAT-SIZE 780 Louisville Rd 108 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corrigan OSB LLC 108 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bow (1403 Route 3A) 108 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: 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.