Bread and bread-type rolls made in commercial bakeries · Colorado
VH Foods Inc dba Outside The Breadbox
Colorado Springs, CO · ~30 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- F
- Failing Safety Record
- 21.3
- Avg TCR
- 3.3
- Industry avg
- 0
- Fatalities
The verdict
VH Foods Inc dba Outside The Breadbox runs at 646% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Bread and bread-type rolls made in commercial bakeries workplace, earning a grade F.
- F
- Failing Safety Record
- 21.3
- avg TCR · per 100 workers
- 3.3
- industry benchmark (BLS)
- 19
- recordable injuries tracked
Grade compares VH Foods Inc dba Outside The Breadbox's OSHA Total Case Rate to the BLS industry benchmark across 3 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). This reflects reported recordable injuries, not an independent safety inspection -- underreporting is a known limitation of employer self-recordkeeping.
Injury rate over time
VH Foods Inc dba Outside The Breadbox's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 3.3 industry benchmark.
Where VH Foods Inc dba Outside The Breadbox falls in its industry
1,140 Bread and bread-type rolls mad establishmentsSafer than 1% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.
Narrower to Colorado alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #30 safest of 30 Bread and bread-type rolls mad employers in Colorado.
VH Foods Inc dba Outside The Breadbox has an average TCR of 21.3, which is 646% of the industry average (3.3) for Bread and bread-type rolls made in commercial bakeries. This is significantly worse than average.
The letter grade is a transparent derived index PlainSafetyScore computes from public OSHA ITA and BLS benchmark data, not an official OSHA rating or safety certification. Full formula and thresholds: Methodology.
Trend analysis for VH Foods Inc dba Outside The Breadbox
Between 2018 and 2020, VH Foods Inc dba Outside The Breadbox's Total Case Rate worsened from 7.7 to 17.0 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 120% increase across 2 years of OSHA reporting.
The safest year on record was 2018, at a TCR of 7.7, while 2019 saw the highest rate, at 39.2, a spread of 31.5 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a wide swing relative to the establishment's overall rate, worth checking the year-by-year table below for whether a single severe year is driving the average, rather than a sustained trend.
Summed across those 3 reporting years, VH Foods Inc dba Outside The Breadbox recorded 19 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 3-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.
Verify This Employer with OSHA
All injury, illness, and fatality figures on this page are sourced from VH Foods Inc dba Outside The Breadbox's own mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.
Verify on OSHA Establishment SearchSource: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 311812 - Bread and bread-type rolls made in commercial bakeries.
DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2020)
DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.
5 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 58,810 hours worked = 17.00 DART
Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping
Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State
| Benchmark | TCR | Source |
|---|---|---|
| VH Foods Inc dba Outside The Breadbox (this establishment) | 21.31 | OSHA ITA Form 300A, 3-year avg |
| Commercial bakeries industry avg | 3.30 | BLS IIF, NAICS 311812 |
| Colorado state avg (all industries) | 5.41 | OSHA ITA, state-level rollup |
Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program
Reportable Incident Timeline
Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by VH Foods Inc dba Outside The Breadbox to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.
- 2020: 5 reportable incidents · 5 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2019: 11 reportable incidents · 11 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2018: 3 reportable incidents · 3 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records
Year-by-Year Safety Data
| Year | TCR | DART | Injuries | Illnesses | Fatalities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 17.0 | 17.0 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 39.2 | 7.1 | 11 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 7.7 | 7.7 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
What this grade means for you
Use this grade as a relative read on VH Foods Inc dba Outside The Breadbox's reported OSHA injury record versus its Bread and bread-type rolls made in commercial bakeries peers, not a verdict on whether any single site is safe today.
- At 646% of the Bread and bread-type rolls made in commercial bakeries benchmark, VH Foods Inc dba Outside The Breadbox reports more injuries than typical peers, ask specifically how the employer is reducing them. Know your rights
- Judge this record against the wider Bread and bread-type rolls made in commercial bakeries sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
- Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another
Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.
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