Wind turbines (i.e., windmill) manufacturing · Colorado

Vestas Blades America

Windsor, CO · ~577 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Vestas Blades America runs at 82% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Wind turbines (i.e., windmill) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Vestas Blades America: 2.7 TCR = 82% of Wind turbines (i.e., windmill) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Vestas Blades America safety composite

Vestas Blades America scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 2.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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

Vestas Blades America: 1.9 → 3.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 3.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.18× in 2024

Vestas Blades America's TCR rose 1.9 from 1.9 in 2021 to 3.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.18× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333611 · Windsor, CO AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.7 · 82% of ind

  • DART 3.2 DART
  • RANK #3/5
  • PHOTO Gas Power Systems : …
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 55 inj
  • SIZE ~577 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Gas Power Systems : Bangor, ME, USA (0.1 TCR gap)

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Vestas Blades America in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Vestas Blades America averages 2.7 TCR (82% of the Wind turbines (i.e., windmill) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Vestas Blades America TCR series: 2021=1.9 · 2022=2.9 · 2023=2.2 · 2024=3.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Vestas Blades America falls in its industry

97 Wind turbines (i.e., windmill) establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Colorado alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 5 Wind turbines (i.e., windmill) employers in Colorado.

Vestas Blades America (577 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 141 employees and a TCR of 2.0 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 05001,0001,5002,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Vestas Blades America
Vestas Blades America (577 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 141 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Vestas Blades America has more employees than the Wind turbines (i.e., windmill) manufactu median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.0. 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 3.8 3.2 33 3 0
2023 2.2 1.9 7 0 0
2022 2.9 2.1 7 1 0
2021 1.9 1.7 8 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333611 · CO · Windsor

97 Wind turbines (i.e., windmill) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,007 rated employers in Colorado with headcount on file · 54 employers in Windsor, 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 Gas Power Systems : Bangor, ME, USA 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR SEW-EURODRIVE, Inc 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gas Power Systems : Schenectady, NY, USA 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR LM Wind Power : Little Rock 2.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc, Ft. Collins Brewery 576 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2000 Taylor 578 FTE
STATE-SIZE COEGL - ENGLEWOOD CENTER 576 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lockheed Martin Corporation US CO Park Meadow (5501) 578 FTE
CITY-NEAR Vestas America Wind Technologies, Inc. 1,283 FTE
CITY-NEAR CSH Colorado Site 352 FTE
CITY-NEAR Owens-Illinois, Inc 214 FTE
CITY-NEAR Owens-Illinois, Inc. Plant 28 209 FTE
NAT-TCR H & R Agripower Fayetteville, TN 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Mojave Unified School District 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Nifco America Corporation TN 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Mounds View High School 2.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cold Spring Brewing Company 577 FTE
NAT-SIZE Colleton County Government 577 FTE
NAT-SIZE Crew One Productions - Florida 577 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mosaic 577 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. 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.