General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) · Colorado

Westco Express, Inc.

Commerce City, CO · ~77 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Westco Express, Inc. runs at 90% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade C.

Westco Express, Inc.: 4.1 TCR = 90% of General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Westco Express, Inc. safety composite

Westco Express, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 35%), 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).

D

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

Westco Express, Inc.: 2.1 → 6.9 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 6.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.73× in 2018

Westco Express, Inc.'s TCR rose 4.8 from 2.1 in 2016 to 6.9 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.73× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Commerce City, CO AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.1 · 90% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK #18/31
  • PHOTO MOVIN' IRON, INC.
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~77 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MOVIN' IRON, INC. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Westco Express, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Westco Express, Inc. averages 4.1 TCR (90% of the General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS benchmark).

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

Westco Express, Inc. TCR series: 2016=2.1 · 2017=3.2 · 2018=6.9 · BLS 4.5

Where Westco Express, Inc. falls in its industry

3,252 General freight trucking, long establishments

Safer than 35% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Colorado alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 31 General freight trucking, long employers in Colorado.

Westco Express, Inc. (77 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Westco Express, Inc.
Westco Express, Inc. (77 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Westco Express, Inc. has more employees than the General freight trucking, long-distance, 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
2018 6.9 3.0 7 0 0
2017 3.2 2.1 3 0 0
2016 2.1 1.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · CO · Commerce City

3,252 General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,007 rated employers in Colorado with headcount on file · 175 employers in Commerce City, 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 MOVIN' IRON, INC. 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR WESTERN TRANSPORT, INC. 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Shippensburg, PA (WC USX SHP) 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR INDIANAPOLIS DRY 4.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Colorado Division Office 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pate Construction Company , Inc 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pate Construction Company Inc. 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE Glass Roots Construction, LLC 77 FTE
CITY-NEAR CODEN - COMMERCE CITY 3,388 FTE
CITY-NEAR COMMERCE CITY (CODEN) 3,174 FTE
CITY-NEAR Q3 Contracting Inc 593 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - BDU5 581 FTE
NAT-TCR B-XII Waltham LLC 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Aqua Pennsylvania, Inc. - Springfield 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Yorkville 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Home Care Infusion Pharmacy 4.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lexington Distribution Operations Center 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Dedham 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1830 Miller Parkway Streetsboro Ohio 44241 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sales - Great Smokies - The Wilderness 77 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.