Bits, rock drill, construction and surface mining-type, manufacturing · Colorado

TEI Rock Drills

Montrose, CO · ~34 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

TEI Rock Drills runs at 127% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Bits, rock drill, construction and surface mining-type, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

TEI Rock Drills: 4.2 TCR = 127% of Bits, rock drill, construction and surface mining-type, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

TEI Rock Drills safety composite

TEI Rock Drills scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 30%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

TEI Rock Drills: 2.5 → 6.0 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 8.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.72× in 2024

TEI Rock Drills's TCR rose 3.5 from 2.5 in 2016 to 6.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 8.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.72× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333120 · Montrose, CO ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.2 · 127% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK P47
  • PHOTO JCB INC
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~34 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: JCB INC (0.0 TCR gap)

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TEI Rock Drills in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows TEI Rock Drills averages 4.2 TCR (127% of the Bits, rock drill, construction and surface mining-type, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

TEI Rock Drills TCR series: 2016=2.5 · 2017=4.6 · 2018=2.5 · 2019=2.5 · 2020=4.9 · 2021=8.4 · 2022=3.1 · 2023=3 · 2024=6 · BLS 3.3

Where TEI Rock Drills falls in its industry

400 Bits, rock drill, construction establishments

Safer than 47% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
TEI Rock Drills (34 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate TEI Rock Drills
TEI Rock Drills (34 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 4.0

TEI Rock Drills has fewer employees than the Bits, rock drill, construction and surfa median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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 6.0 3.0 2 0 0
2023 3.0 3.0 1 0 0
2022 3.1 0.0 1 0 0
2021 8.4 5.6 3 0 0
2020 4.9 0.0 2 0 0
2019 2.5 0.0 1 0 0
2018 2.5 0.0 1 0 0
2017 4.6 0.0 2 0 0
2016 2.5 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333120 · CO · Montrose

400 Bits, rock drill, construction and surface mining-type, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,007 rated employers in Colorado with headcount on file · 71 employers in Montrose, 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 JCB INC 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pengo Corporation (Laurens, IA) 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wausau New Berlin 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR LeeBoy 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Nucla Generating Station 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Northern Colorado Maintenance Center 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Limon Headquarters 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brikor Associates Inc 34 FTE
CITY-NEAR Montrose Memorial Hospital 777 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hilltop Health Services Corporation- 238 S 2nd Street 641 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hilltop Health Services Corporation- 3325 North Townsend 641 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hilltop Health Services Corporation- 540 S 1st Street 335 FTE
NAT-TCR Kingsport Martin Transport 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Transport Service 60104 Reynolds 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Sanderson Farms Hazlehurst Processing 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR The Alfond Inn at Rollins 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Dahme Mechanical Industries, Inc. 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Reddy Ice - Davie (439) 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Reddy Ice - Atlanta (449) 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Reddy Ice - San Antonia (302) 34 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.