Horizontal drilling (e.g., underground cable, pipeline, sewer installation) · Colorado

Superior Underground LLC

Denver, CO · ~89 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.9
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Superior Underground LLC runs at 32% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Horizontal drilling (e.g., underground cable, pipeline, sewer installation) workplace, earning a grade A.

Superior Underground LLC: 0.9 TCR = 32% of Horizontal drilling (e.g., underground cable, pipeline, sewer installation) BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Superior Underground LLC safety composite

Superior Underground LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 66% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 23%), 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).

D

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 0.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

Superior Underground LLC: 0.0 → 1.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 1.8 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2024

Superior Underground LLC's TCR rose 1.8 from 0.0 in 2023 to 1.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237990 · Denver, CO AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 32% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #7/26
  • PHOTO TICONIC BRIDGE
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~89 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: TICONIC BRIDGE (0.0 TCR gap)

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Superior Underground LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Superior Underground LLC averages 0.9 TCR (32% of the Horizontal drilling (e.g., underground cable, pipeline, sewer installation) BLS benchmark).

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

Superior Underground LLC TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=1.8 · BLS 2.8

Where Superior Underground LLC falls in its industry

932 Horizontal drilling (e.g., und establishments

Safer than 66% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Colorado alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 26 Horizontal drilling (e.g., und employers in Colorado.

Superior Underground LLC (89 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 1.5 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Superior Underground LLC
Superior Underground LLC (89 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 1.5

Superior Underground LLC has more employees than the Horizontal drilling (e.g., underground c median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.5. 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 1.8 1.8 2 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237990 · CO · Denver

932 Horizontal drilling (e.g., underground cable, pipeline, sewer installation) 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 TICONIC BRIDGE 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR R. J. Corman Railroad Services, Non-Emergency, 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Amboy Contractors, LLC 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4043_7766 0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lightsource bp - Denver Office 89 FTE
STATE-SIZE Poudre Valley Rural Electric Association, Inc 89 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gilbane Building Company Denver 89 FTE
STATE-SIZE Palace Construction Co., Inc 89 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 Freedom Finishing Inc 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Allen County Public Library 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR HPC Industrial Services LLC H1226 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Mann Mechanical 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cougar Cutting, Inc. 89 FTE
NAT-SIZE Midtown Health Center Inc. 89 FTE
NAT-SIZE Total Security Solutions 89 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stanley Engineering Co LLC 89 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.