Culverts, highway, road and street, construction · Colorado

Tezak Heavy Equipment

Canon City, CO · ~75 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Tezak Heavy Equipment runs at 178% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Culverts, highway, road and street, construction workplace, earning a grade D.

Tezak Heavy Equipment: 5.0 TCR = 178% of Culverts, highway, road and street, construction BLS 2.8 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tezak Heavy Equipment safety composite

Tezak Heavy Equipment scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 29%), 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

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.2

2016→2022

Tezak Heavy Equipment injury rate improved

Tezak Heavy Equipment's TCR fell 2.2 from 5.1 in 2016 to 2.9 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 8.8 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.58× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.1 · 2017=3.9 · 2018=6.5 · 2019=4.5 · 2020=3.2 · 2021=8.8 · 2022=2.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Canon City, CO ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.0 · 178% of ind

  • DART 2.9 DART
  • RANK #69/85
  • PHOTO Strawser Constructio…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 26 inj
  • SIZE ~75 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Strawser Construction Inc. Construction Shop (0.0 TCR gap)

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Tezak Heavy Equipment in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Tezak Heavy Equipment averages 5.0 TCR (178% of the Culverts, highway, road and street, construction BLS benchmark).

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

Tezak Heavy Equipment TCR series: 2016=5.1 · 2017=3.9 · 2018=6.5 · 2019=4.5 · 2020=3.2 · 2021=8.8 · 2022=2.9 · BLS 2.8

Where Tezak Heavy Equipment falls in its industry

4,078 Culverts, highway, road and st establishments

Safer than 29% 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 #69 safest of 85 Culverts, highway, road and st employers in Colorado.

Tezak Heavy Equipment (75 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 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 01,0002,0003,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Tezak Heavy Equipment
Tezak Heavy Equipment (75 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Tezak Heavy Equipment has more employees than the Culverts, highway, road and street, cons 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
2022 2.9 2.9 2 0 0
2021 8.8 7.6 7 0 0
2020 3.2 1.6 2 0 0
2019 4.5 3.0 3 0 0
2018 6.5 5.2 5 0 0
2017 3.9 3.9 3 0 0
2016 5.1 2.5 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · CO · Canon City

4,078 Culverts, highway, road and street, construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,007 rated employers in Colorado with headcount on file · 39 employers in Canon City, 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 Strawser Construction Inc. Construction Shop 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Construction 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Scott Construction 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Curran Contracting Co - Texas Division 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Art C. Klein Construction, Inc. 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE Silver And Blue Concrete Inc 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE Low Voltage Wiring Ltd dba LVW Electronics 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE Productive Electric 75 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Thomas More Hospital 477 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1019 313 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1019 309 FTE
CITY-NEAR 620-00417 120 FTE
NAT-TCR Saint Cloud, MN 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Homecare Gainesville 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Falling Leaves Lawn Care 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Chicago Metro - Damen 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bergey's Truck Centers Pennsauken 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE Priority Tyson's Nissan Mazda 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE 9215-SYR 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE General Aluminum Manufacturing Company 75 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: 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.