Employer · Colorado

Buttermilk Ski Area

Aspen, CO · ~465 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.9
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Buttermilk Ski Area runs at 463% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade F.

Buttermilk Ski Area: 13.9 TCR = 463% of industry BLS 3.0 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Buttermilk Ski Area safety composite

Buttermilk Ski Area scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 3%), 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

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 13.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 12.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Buttermilk Ski Area: 6.8 → 17.7 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 25.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.88× in 2024

Buttermilk Ski Area's TCR rose 10.9 from 6.8 in 2016 to 17.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 25.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.88× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 721110 · Aspen, CO ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 13.9 · 463% of ind

  • DART 12.2 DART
  • RANK #282/308
  • PHOTO Residence Inn Concord
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 151 inj
  • SIZE ~465 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Residence Inn Concord (0.0 TCR gap)

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Buttermilk Ski Area in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Buttermilk Ski Area averages 13.9 TCR (463% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Buttermilk Ski Area TCR series: 2016=6.8 · 2017=11.8 · 2018=6.5 · 2019=10.9 · 2020=14.9 · 2021=18.3 · 2022=25.9 · 2023=12.5 · 2024=17.7 · BLS 3.0

Where Buttermilk Ski Area falls in its industry

9,342 industry establishments

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Colorado alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #282 safest of 308 industry employers in Colorado.

Buttermilk Ski Area (465 employees, TCR 13.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Buttermilk Ski Area
Buttermilk Ski Area (465 employees, TCR 13.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Buttermilk Ski Area has more employees than the industry median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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 17.7 12.2 26 0 0
2023 12.5 6.3 16 0 0
2022 25.9 20.9 35 1 0
2021 18.3 17.2 17 0 0
2020 14.9 13.8 14 0 0
2019 10.9 9.3 14 0 0
2018 6.5 6.5 8 0 0
2017 11.8 10.8 12 0 0
2016 6.8 6.8 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

721110 · CO · Aspen

9,342 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,007 rated employers in Colorado with headcount on file · 32 employers in Aspen, 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 Residence Inn Concord 13.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Winter Park 13.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hampton Inn & Suites Berkshires Lenox 13.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1251 13.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hyatt Regency Denver 466 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ft. Collins 467 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4450 E. Fountain Blvd., Colorado Springs 462 FTE
STATE-SIZE 183 Inverness Drive West 462 FTE
CITY-NEAR Snowmass Ski Area 1,295 FTE
CITY-NEAR ASC Parent Company 456 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Little Nell Hotel 454 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aspen Mountain Ski Area 386 FTE
NAT-TCR City of Chesapeake - Maintenance and Operations 13.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Fire Department 13.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Meadows Farms- Richmond, VA 13.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Allina Health Eagan Clinic 13.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Augusta, GA 465 FTE
NAT-SIZE Michelin Aircraft Tire Co 465 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bellefaire JCB - Shaker Heights 465 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sonoran Cr Med Ctr Campus 465 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.