Traffic signal installation · Colorado

W. L. Contractors

Arvada, CO · ~120 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.9
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

W. L. Contractors runs at 174% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Traffic signal installation workplace, earning a grade D.

W. L. Contractors: 4.9 TCR = 174% of Traffic signal installation BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

W. L. Contractors safety composite

W. L. Contractors 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.99 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%).

W. L. Contractors held a steady TCR band

W. L. Contractors's TCR held near 0.2 from 4.8 in 2019 to 5.0 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.02× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=4.8 · 2020=5.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238210 · Arvada, CO ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.9 · 174% of ind

  • DART 5.0 DART
  • RANK #90/135
  • PHOTO Escoe Industrial Man…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~120 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Escoe Industrial Management INC (0.0 TCR gap)

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W. L. Contractors in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows W. L. Contractors averages 4.9 TCR (174% of the Traffic signal installation BLS benchmark).

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

W. L. Contractors TCR series: 2019=4.8 · 2020=5 · BLS 2.8

Where W. L. Contractors falls in its industry

4,550 Traffic signal installation establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Colorado alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #90 safest of 135 Traffic signal installation employers in Colorado.

W. L. Contractors (120 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate W. L. Contractors
W. L. Contractors (120 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.5

W. L. Contractors has more employees than the Traffic signal installation median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2020 5.0 5.0 4 3 0
2019 4.8 4.8 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238210 · CO · Arvada

4,550 Traffic signal installation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,007 rated employers in Colorado with headcount on file · 129 employers in Arvada, 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 Escoe Industrial Management INC 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Masters Electrical Services LTD. 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 575 Houston ITS & LP 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR ACE ELECTRIC COMPANY INC 4.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mountain Prairie 120 FTE
STATE-SIZE CML Security, LLC. 120 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brinkman Construction 120 FTE
STATE-SIZE 7102103 FPL Neptune 120 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sundyne LLC 360 FTE
CITY-NEAR WANCO, Inc. 308 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lumin8 Transportation Technologies, LLC. 298 FTE
CITY-NEAR LivaNova 276 FTE
NAT-TCR Caraustar Buffalo 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Innovative Companies 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR DGS Aviation Services : PVD - Providence 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Northbrook - LRS 4.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Rehrig Pacific Company Kenosha 120 FTE
NAT-SIZE Genesis 120 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gardens Alive Fulfillment Center 120 FTE
NAT-SIZE Albany NY Store 120 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: 2020, 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.