Veterinary services, pets and other animal specialties · Colorado

Caring Hands Veterinary Hospital

Thornton, CO · ~71 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
28.9
Avg TCR
0.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Caring Hands Veterinary Hospital runs at 5778% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Veterinary services, pets and other animal specialties workplace, earning a grade F.

Caring Hands Veterinary Hospital: 28.9 TCR = 5778% of Veterinary services, pets and other animal specialties BLS 0.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Caring Hands Veterinary Hospital safety composite

Caring Hands Veterinary Hospital scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 28.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 18.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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

Caring Hands Veterinary Hospital: 27.5 → 30.3 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 30.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.63× in 2019

Caring Hands Veterinary Hospital's TCR rose 2.8 from 27.5 in 2018 to 30.3 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.63× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 541940 · Thornton, CO ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 28.9 · 5778% of ind

  • DART 18.2 DART
  • RANK #8/8
  • PHOTO Humane Society of Utah
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 30 inj
  • SIZE ~71 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Humane Society of Utah (0.3 TCR gap)

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Caring Hands Veterinary Hospital in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Caring Hands Veterinary Hospital averages 28.9 TCR (5778% of the Veterinary services, pets and other animal specialties BLS benchmark).

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

Caring Hands Veterinary Hospital TCR series: 2018=27.5 · 2019=30.3 · BLS 0.5

Where Caring Hands Veterinary Hospital falls in its industry

261 Veterinary services, pets and establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 12.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Colorado alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 8 Veterinary services, pets and employers in Colorado.

Caring Hands Veterinary Hospital (71 employees, TCR 28.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 42 employees and a TCR of 12.0 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 0100200300400 010203040 Average employees Total Case Rate Caring Hands Veterinary Hospital
Caring Hands Veterinary Hospital (71 employees, TCR 28.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 42 employees and a TCR of 12.0

Caring Hands Veterinary Hospital has more employees than the Veterinary services, pets and other anim median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 12.0. 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
2019 30.3 18.2 15 0 0
2018 27.5 12.8 15 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

541940 · CO · Thornton

261 Veterinary services, pets and other animal specialties employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,007 rated employers in Colorado with headcount on file · 96 employers in Thornton, 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 Humane Society of Utah 28.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lakefield Veterinary Group -188 28.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6276-62762010-000460 29.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lakefield Veterinary Group - 159 29.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Parachute Office 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE W.E.O'Neil Construction Of Colorado 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Apex Plumbing Inc. 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rush Creek Wind 16141016 71 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - DEN3 3,070 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : DEN3 2,522 FTE
CITY-NEAR North Suburban Medical Center 822 FTE
CITY-NEAR Brundage-Bone Concrete Pumping 818 FTE
NAT-TCR WIFT,LLC 28.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Pennwest California** 28.9 TCR
NAT-TCR DAP-US Corp 28.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Tampa - GMS, Himes, US Scouts 28.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE L.E.C. Inc. 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE US IL Rockford Plant 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Florence PP 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lacrosse Hardwood Flooring 71 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.

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

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