Discount Department Stores · Colorado

2021 - Arvada South

Wheat Ridge, CO · ~213 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.8
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

2021 - Arvada South runs at 259% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Discount Department Stores workplace, earning a grade F.

2021 - Arvada South: 8.8 TCR = 259% of Discount Department Stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

2021 - Arvada South safety composite

2021 - Arvada South scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 13%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% 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

−3.8

2019→2024

2021 - Arvada South injury rate improved

2021 - Arvada South's TCR fell 3.8 from 6.3 in 2019 to 2.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 17.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.29× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=6.3 · 2021=17.5 · 2022=15.9 · 2023=1.7 · 2024=2.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452112 · Wheat Ridge, CO ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.8 · 259% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #92/100
  • PHOTO 0397 - Grand Rapids …
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~213 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 0397 - Grand Rapids North (0.0 TCR gap)

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2021 - Arvada South in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 2021 - Arvada South averages 8.8 TCR (259% of the Discount Department Stores BLS benchmark).

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

2021 - Arvada South TCR series: 2019=6.3 · 2021=17.5 · 2022=15.9 · 2023=1.7 · 2024=2.6 · BLS 3.4

Where 2021 - Arvada South falls in its industry

4,991 Discount Department Stores establishments

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Colorado alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #92 safest of 100 Discount Department Stores employers in Colorado.

2021 - Arvada South (213 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 2021 - Arvada South
2021 - Arvada South (213 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4

2021 - Arvada South has more employees than the Discount Department Stores median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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
2024 2.6 2.6 3 0 0
2023 1.7 1.7 2 0 0
2022 15.9 15.1 4 16 0
2021 17.5 12.0 3 19 0
2019 6.3 4.8 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452112 · CO · Wheat Ridge

4,991 Discount Department Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,007 rated employers in Colorado with headcount on file · 56 employers in Wheat Ridge, 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 0397 - Grand Rapids North 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1234 - Winchester 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1522 - Red Wing 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2019 - Whittier 8.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Fruita Area Office 213 FTE
STATE-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - DEN7 213 FTE
STATE-SIZE S04187 - WM of Denver - Denver South 213 FTE
STATE-SIZE Life Care Centers of Aurora 213 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lutheran Medical Center 1,912 FTE
CITY-NEAR SiteWise Corporation 432 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rocky Mountain Bottle Company 239 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baptist Home Association of the Rocky Mountains 197 FTE
NAT-TCR 1234 - Winchester 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 0397 - Grand Rapids North 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Farmers' Rice Cooperative - PIRMI 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Inland Truck Parts Company 2 8.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE 2601 - Petaluma 213 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2641 - Salt Lake City 213 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2784 - Cary West 213 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1496 - Westborough 213 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.