Air ambulance services · Colorado

Classic Air - Cortez

Cortez, CO · ~22 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Classic Air - Cortez runs at 104% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Air ambulance services workplace, earning a grade C.

Classic Air - Cortez: 4.0 TCR = 104% of Air ambulance services BLS 3.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Classic Air - Cortez safety composite

Classic Air - Cortez scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 89% 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).

B

75/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 3.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 89% 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

−8.4

2022→2024

Classic Air - Cortez injury rate improved

Classic Air - Cortez's TCR fell 8.4 from 8.4 in 2022 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 8.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=8.4 · 2023=3.5 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621910 · Cortez, CO ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.0 · 104% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/9
  • PHOTO PatientCare EMS MS
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: PatientCare EMS MS (0.0 TCR gap)

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Classic Air - Cortez in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Classic Air - Cortez averages 4.0 TCR (104% of the Air ambulance services BLS benchmark).

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

Classic Air - Cortez TCR series: 2022=8.4 · 2023=3.5 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.8

Where Classic Air - Cortez falls in its industry

976 Air ambulance services establishments

Safer than 78% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 8.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Colorado alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 9 Air ambulance services employers in Colorado.

Classic Air - Cortez (22 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 8.3 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Classic Air - Cortez
Classic Air - Cortez (22 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 8.3

Classic Air - Cortez has fewer employees than the Air ambulance services median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 8.3. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 3.5 3.5 1 0 0
2022 8.4 8.4 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621910 · CO · Cortez

976 Air ambulance services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,007 rated employers in Colorado with headcount on file · 21 employers in Cortez, 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 PatientCare EMS MS 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Medical Center at Bowling Green Emergency Medical Services 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Oregon Support Communications 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Calssic Air - Fort Mohave 3.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Jack's Bean Company LLC 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ponderosa Partnership LLC 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Allied Demolition, Inc 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE San Isabel Electric Association- Pueblo West Administration 22 FTE
CITY-NEAR Southwest Health System, Inc. 416 FTE
CITY-NEAR 966 314 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 966 288 FTE
CITY-NEAR 620-00408 125 FTE
NAT-TCR MA021 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR TMX2439 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Fairfield Milwaukee Downtown 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 4010 Hillsboro 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Interstate Gas Supply, LLC Columbus HEC 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Presque Isle Me 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fairfield Inn & Suites Anaheim North/Buena Park 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Interstate Gas Supply Maumee 22 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. 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.