Other Airport Operations · Colorado

Den United Ground Express-Den

Denver, CO · ~929 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Den United Ground Express-Den runs at 148% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Other Airport Operations workplace, earning a grade D.

Den United Ground Express-Den: 6.7 TCR = 148% of Other Airport Operations BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Den United Ground Express-Den safety composite

Den United Ground Express-Den scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 16%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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

Den United Ground Express-Den: 4.8 → 8.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 8.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.2× in 2024

Den United Ground Express-Den's TCR rose 3.8 from 4.8 in 2023 to 8.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488119 · Denver, CO ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.7 · 148% of ind

  • DART 8.0 DART
  • RANK #25/43
  • PHOTO ProJet Aviation
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 92 inj
  • SIZE ~929 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ProJet Aviation (0.0 TCR gap)

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Den United Ground Express-Den in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Den United Ground Express-Den averages 6.7 TCR (148% of the Other Airport Operations BLS benchmark).

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

Den United Ground Express-Den TCR series: 2023=4.8 · 2024=8.6 · BLS 4.5

Where Den United Ground Express-Den falls in its industry

1,555 Other Airport Operations establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Colorado alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #25 safest of 43 Other Airport Operations employers in Colorado.

Den United Ground Express-Den (929 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 02004006008001,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Den United Ground Express-Den
Den United Ground Express-Den (929 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Den United Ground Express-Den has more employees than the Other Airport Operations median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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 8.6 8.0 55 2 0
2023 4.8 4.1 37 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488119 · CO · Denver

1,555 Other Airport Operations 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 ProJet Aviation 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 9123-MSP-PRIMEFLIGHT GSE MAINT 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR TREGO/DUGAN AVIATION INC CHS 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR CHA UNITED GROUND EXPRESS-CHA 6.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Golden Brewery 927 FTE
STATE-SIZE Crossfire 934 FTE
STATE-SIZE ENWDCO46 922 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6019 937 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 Ozark Striping Co, LLC 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Life Care Center of Morristown 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Ito Hilo International Airport 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR O'Keefe Millwork 6.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kysvl - Worldport Freight Facility 929 FTE
NAT-SIZE St Rose Hospital 929 FTE
NAT-SIZE CHCGILHQ 929 FTE
NAT-SIZE Huntersville Field Support Center 929 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. 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.