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

Vestas Nacelles America, Inc.

Brighton, CO · ~327 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Vestas Nacelles America, Inc. runs at 202% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Wind turbines (i.e., windmill) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Vestas Nacelles America, Inc.: 6.7 TCR = 202% of Wind turbines (i.e., windmill) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Vestas Nacelles America, Inc. safety composite

Vestas Nacelles America, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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 Nacelles America, Inc.: 3.4 → 10.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 10.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.13× in 2024

Vestas Nacelles America, Inc.'s TCR rose 6.6 from 3.4 in 2019 to 10.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.13× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333611 · Brighton, CO ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 6.7 · 202% of ind

  • DART 7.6 DART
  • RANK #5/5
  • PHOTO ZF Gainesville-03
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 52 inj
  • SIZE ~327 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ZF Gainesville-03 (0.4 TCR gap)

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Vestas Nacelles America, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Vestas Nacelles America, Inc. averages 6.7 TCR (202% 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 Nacelles America, Inc. TCR series: 2019=3.4 · 2023=6.7 · 2024=10 · BLS 3.3

Where Vestas Nacelles America, Inc. falls in its industry

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

Safer than 6% 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 #5 safest of 5 Wind turbines (i.e., windmill) employers in Colorado.

Vestas Nacelles America, Inc. (327 employees, TCR 6.7) 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 Nacelles America, Inc.
Vestas Nacelles America, Inc. (327 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 141 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Vestas Nacelles America, Inc. 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 10.0 7.6 24 5 0
2023 6.7 6.0 10 0 0
2019 3.4 2.0 18 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333611 · CO · Brighton

97 Wind turbines (i.e., windmill) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,007 rated employers in Colorado with headcount on file · 91 employers in Brighton, 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 ZF Gainesville-03 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Aero Manufacturing Corporation 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR EMP 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Solar Turbines Incorporated DECH Office 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE 540-FC007 327 FTE
STATE-SIZE Global Specialty Fulfillment : DEN6 328 FTE
STATE-SIZE 905 328 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 1252 328 FTE
CITY-NEAR Platte Valley Medical Center 730 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4567 382 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 4567 379 FTE
CITY-NEAR Vestas Nacelles 355 FTE
NAT-TCR Weir's Furniture Village, Inc. - Southlake 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Americraft Manufacturing Co., Inc 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Elsner Engineering Works, Inc. 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR The Laurels of Kent 6.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE LiDestri Lee Road South 327 FTE
NAT-SIZE Apex Tool Group 327 FTE
NAT-SIZE North American Mechanical Inc. 327 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nymtv - Mt Vernon 327 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, 2019. 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.