Timber tract operations · Colorado

VM West, LP

Hotchkiss, CO · ~65 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

VM West, LP runs at 142% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Timber tract operations workplace, earning a grade D.

VM West, LP: 6.4 TCR = 142% of Timber tract operations BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

VM West, LP safety composite

VM West, LP scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 3%), 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

VM West, LP: 3.7 → 9.1 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 9.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.89× in 2023

VM West, LP's TCR rose 5.4 from 3.7 in 2022 to 9.1 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.89× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 113110 · Hotchkiss, CO ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.4 · 142% of ind

  • DART 5.7 DART
  • RANK P25
  • PHOTO Junction City
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~65 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Junction City (0.8 TCR gap)

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VM West, LP in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows VM West, LP averages 6.4 TCR (142% of the Timber tract operations BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

VM West, LP TCR series: 2022=3.7 · 2023=9.1 · BLS 4.5

Where VM West, LP falls in its industry

16 Timber tract operations establishments

Safer than 25% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
VM West, LP (65 employees, TCR 6.4) among 8 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 40 employees and a TCR of 3.0 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 9 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 020406080 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Coos Bay AreaRoseburg Resources OROlson Brothers Logging LLCSoper-Wheeler Company LLCWalsh Timber CompanyPe EllJunction CityDeridderVM West, LP
VM West, LP (65 employees, TCR 6.4) among 8 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 40 employees and a TCR of 3.0

VM West, LP has more employees than the Timber tract operations 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
2023 9.1 5.7 7 1 0
2022 3.7 1.8 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

113110 · CO · Hotchkiss

16 Timber tract operations employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,007 rated employers in Colorado with headcount on file · 4 employers in Hotchkiss, 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 Junction City 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rayonier CRU Yulee 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Deridder 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Soper-Wheeler Company LLC 9.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Glacier Construction CO INC. 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6400-SWY 0005 2911 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE Goodwill Industries of Denver - Leetsdale 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE Goodwill Industries of Denver - Monaco 65 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lightworks Fiber & Consulting, LLC 105 FTE
CITY-NEAR 620-00429 72 FTE
CITY-NEAR Vegetation Management West, LP 33 FTE
NAT-TCR Wm Orr & Sons Inc 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR South out patient cancer center 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Artisan Electric Inc. 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Gray Warehouse 6.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cheshire MA Collection 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE The J.M. Smucker Company Topeka Distribution Center 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE 242 Houston (Dacoma) 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE Greater Quad City Auto Auction LLP 65 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: 2023, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.