Aircraft maintenance and repair services (except factory conversion, factory overhaul, factory rebuilding) · Colorado

West Star Aviation / Grand Junction

Grand Junction, CO · ~469 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

West Star Aviation / Grand Junction runs at 128% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Aircraft maintenance and repair services (except factory conversion, factory overhaul, factory rebuilding) workplace, earning a grade D.

West Star Aviation / Grand Junction: 5.8 TCR = 128% of Aircraft maintenance and repair services (except factory conversion, factory overhaul, factory rebuilding) BLS 4.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

West Star Aviation / Grand Junction safety composite

West Star Aviation / Grand Junction scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 22%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.6

2016→2022

West Star Aviation / Grand Junction injury rate improved

West Star Aviation / Grand Junction's TCR fell 1.6 from 6.7 in 2016 to 5.1 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2019 at 7.7 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.57× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.7 · 2017=7.6 · 2018=4.6 · 2019=7.7 · 2020=5.5 · 2021=3.4 · 2022=5.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488190 · Grand Junction, CO ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.8 · 128% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK #12/23
  • PHOTO LAX-249
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 186 inj
  • SIZE ~469 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: LAX-249 (0.0 TCR gap)

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West Star Aviation / Grand Junction in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows West Star Aviation / Grand Junction averages 5.8 TCR (128% of the Aircraft maintenance and repair services (except factory conversion, factory overhaul, factory rebuilding) BLS benchmark).

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

West Star Aviation / Grand Junction TCR series: 2016=6.7 · 2017=7.6 · 2018=4.6 · 2019=7.7 · 2020=5.5 · 2021=3.4 · 2022=5.1 · BLS 4.5

Where West Star Aviation / Grand Junction falls in its industry

992 Aircraft maintenance and repai establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Colorado alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 23 Aircraft maintenance and repai employers in Colorado.

West Star Aviation / Grand Junction (469 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate West Star Aviation / Grand Junction
West Star Aviation / Grand Junction (469 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 3.2

West Star Aviation / Grand Junction has more employees than the Aircraft maintenance and repair services median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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
2022 5.1 3.3 26 0 0
2021 3.4 2.0 16 1 0
2020 5.5 2.3 25 1 0
2019 7.7 2.7 37 0 0
2018 4.6 2.8 23 0 0
2017 7.6 3.3 33 1 0
2016 6.7 2.3 26 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488190 · CO · Grand Junction

992 Aircraft maintenance and repair services (except factory conversion, factory overhaul, factory rebuilding) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,007 rated employers in Colorado with headcount on file · 233 employers in Grand Junction, 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 LAX-249 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Eulen Aviation JFK Station 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR John Bean Technologies Corporation BNA 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR UTSLK - SALT LAKE AIRPORT 5.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Brookdale Fort Collins 07510 470 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ski School (Adults) - Beaver Creek 468 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ft. Collins 467 FTE
STATE-SIZE DNVRCOFO 471 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Mary's Hospital 2,336 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Mary's Hospital and Medical Center 2,043 FTE
CITY-NEAR Community Hospital 1,062 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hilltop Health Services Corporation- 609 27 1/2 Road 641 FTE
NAT-TCR Brunswick Operating and Transmission Maintenance Center - 3951 & 3915 Community Rd. 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Bartlesville Health & Rehab Community 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Hotel Cerro 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 1226 Cleveland 5.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cardinal IG -Greenfield IG 469 FTE
NAT-SIZE QSI, Inc 469 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alene Candles Midwest 469 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lakewood Regional Office 469 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.