Casino hotels · Colorado

Ameristar Black Hawk

Black Hawk, CO · ~971 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ameristar Black Hawk runs at 79% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Casino hotels workplace, earning a grade B.

Ameristar Black Hawk: 2.4 TCR = 79% of Casino hotels BLS 3.0 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ameristar Black Hawk safety composite

Ameristar Black Hawk scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 77% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.6

2016→2019

Ameristar Black Hawk injury rate improved

Ameristar Black Hawk's TCR fell 2.6 from 3.6 in 2016 to 1.0 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2016 at 3.6 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.6 · 2017=2.4 · 2019=1.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 721120 · Black Hawk, CO AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 79% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #6/11
  • PHOTO NEMACOLIN (460)
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 52 inj
  • SIZE ~971 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: NEMACOLIN (460) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ameristar Black Hawk in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ameristar Black Hawk averages 2.4 TCR (79% of the Casino hotels BLS benchmark).

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

Ameristar Black Hawk TCR series: 2016=3.6 · 2017=2.4 · 2019=1 · BLS 3.0

Where Ameristar Black Hawk falls in its industry

381 Casino hotels establishments

Safer than 62% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Colorado alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 11 Casino hotels employers in Colorado.

Ameristar Black Hawk (971 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 725 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 02,0004,0006,0008,000 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Ameristar Black Hawk
Ameristar Black Hawk (971 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 725 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Ameristar Black Hawk has more employees than the Casino hotels median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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 1.0 0.8 7 1 0
2017 2.4 1.4 18 2 0
2016 3.6 2.8 27 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

721120 · CO · Black Hawk

381 Casino hotels employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,007 rated employers in Colorado with headcount on file · 14 employers in Black Hawk, 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 NEMACOLIN (460) 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Model T Casino Resort LLC 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Biloxi Property - Code 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 9234-95011108 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE 12524 975 FTE
STATE-SIZE Great Southwestern Construction, Inc. 977 FTE
STATE-SIZE MillerCoors Golden Brewery 965 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hunter Douglas 978 FTE
CITY-NEAR Monarch Casino Resort Spa 1,133 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ameristar Casino Black Hawk 727 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Lodge Casino 492 FTE
CITY-NEAR BLACK HAWK (419) 448 FTE
NAT-TCR HealthTrust Supply Chain - Northern Market 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR CODA, Inc. 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Kollege Town Sports 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 675 - Columbus 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Johnson and Johnson Consumer Inc McNeil Consumer Healthcare Division PPC 971 FTE
NAT-SIZE Masco Cabinetry Middlefield LLC Plant #2 971 FTE
NAT-SIZE Marz Farms Inc. 971 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1855-FLJAC5 971 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, 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.