Materials Recovery Facilities · Colorado

Denver 53rd

Denver, CO · ~78 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.8
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Denver 53rd runs at 33% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Materials Recovery Facilities workplace, earning a grade A.

Denver 53rd: 0.8 TCR = 33% of Materials Recovery Facilities BLS 2.6 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Denver 53rd safety composite

Denver 53rd scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 96% 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

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 96% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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%).

Denver 53rd held a steady TCR band

Denver 53rd's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 2.5 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=0.0 · 2018=0.7 · 2019=0.7 · 2020=1.2 · 2021=2.5 · 2022=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562920 · Denver, CO AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.8 · 33% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/10
  • PHOTO Sturgis
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~78 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sturgis (0.0 TCR gap)

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Denver 53rd in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Denver 53rd averages 0.8 TCR (33% of the Materials Recovery Facilities BLS benchmark).

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

Denver 53rd TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=0.7 · 2019=0.7 · 2020=1.2 · 2021=2.5 · 2022=0 · BLS 2.6

Where Denver 53rd falls in its industry

422 Materials Recovery Facilities establishments

Safer than 96% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

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 10 Materials Recovery Facilities employers in Colorado.

Denver 53rd (78 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 3.8 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Denver 53rd
Denver 53rd (78 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Denver 53rd has more employees than the Materials Recovery Facilities median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.8. 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
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 2.5 1.3 2 0 0
2020 1.2 0.0 1 0 0
2019 0.7 0.0 1 0 0
2018 0.7 0.7 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562920 · CO · Denver

422 Materials Recovery Facilities 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 Sturgis 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4419 Fort Lauderdale Recycle 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4413 Columbus Recycle 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR g2 Revolution, LLC Vernon Hills, IL 0.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Colorado First Construction dba CFC Construction Inc. 78 FTE
STATE-SIZE RECONSTRUCTION EXPERTS, INC - DENVER 78 FTE
STATE-SIZE JFSNA at Suncor Commerce City 78 FTE
STATE-SIZE EAP Glass 78 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 Chicago 1780 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Alpargatas. (SMRU0919) 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Golden Valley Struthers P Ctr 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 4419 Fort Lauderdale Recycle 0.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Alexandria 37160 78 FTE
NAT-SIZE San Antonio LIGHT 78 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tarzana 78 FTE
NAT-SIZE Woodbriar Place 78 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.