Coolers or ice chests, polystyrene foam, manufacturing · Colorado

ACH Foam technologies Denver plant

Denver, CO · ~26 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

ACH Foam technologies Denver plant runs at 164% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Coolers or ice chests, polystyrene foam, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

ACH Foam technologies Denver plant: 5.4 TCR = 164% of Coolers or ice chests, polystyrene foam, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

ACH Foam technologies Denver plant safety composite

ACH Foam technologies Denver plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 20%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% 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%).

Rising injury rate

ACH Foam technologies Denver plant: 3.5 → 7.3 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 7.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.67× in 2019

ACH Foam technologies Denver plant's TCR rose 3.7 from 3.5 in 2018 to 7.3 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326140 · Denver, CO ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.4 · 164% of ind

  • DART 3.6 DART
  • RANK #4/4
  • PHOTO Engineered Packaging…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Engineered Packaging, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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ACH Foam technologies Denver plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows ACH Foam technologies Denver plant averages 5.4 TCR (164% of the Coolers or ice chests, polystyrene foam, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

ACH Foam technologies Denver plant TCR series: 2018=3.5 · 2019=7.3 · BLS 3.3

Where ACH Foam technologies Denver plant falls in its industry

260 Coolers or ice chests, polysty establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Colorado alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 4 Coolers or ice chests, polysty employers in Colorado.

ACH Foam technologies Denver plant (26 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 66 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 0100200300400500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate ACH Foam technologies Denver plant
ACH Foam technologies Denver plant (26 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 66 employees and a TCR of 3.1

ACH Foam technologies Denver plant has fewer employees than the Coolers or ice chests, polystyrene foam, median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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
2019 7.3 3.6 2 0 0
2018 3.5 3.5 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326140 · CO · Denver

260 Coolers or ice chests, polystyrene foam, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,007 rated employers in Colorado with headcount on file · 1,757 employers in Denver, 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 Engineered Packaging, Inc. 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alleguard - Cave Spring 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alleguard - Anderson 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Airlite Plastics Co. Cold Chain 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Palmer Lake 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE BHE - Castle Rock (CO001) 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Glenwood Springs 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE 17W 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR DEN DEN 9,832 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6925-DEN 6,769 FTE
CITY-NEAR DEN - Airport United Airlines Offices 5,277 FTE
CITY-NEAR CO-01 4,581 FTE
NAT-TCR Royale Meadows 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Nipro PharmaPackaging Americas Corporation Millville Vial 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Colonial Manor Nursing 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR #80 Art Van Howell 5.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hampton Inn Ft Walton Beach 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE 35 - Erie (Falconer, Bradford) 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE ERMC - Triangle Town Center 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Punch-Lok 26 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: 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.