Organic chemicals merchant wholesalers · Colorado

Denver, CO

Arvada, CO · ~91 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Denver, CO runs at 316% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Organic chemicals merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Denver, CO: 7.0 TCR = 316% of Organic chemicals merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Denver, CO safety composite

Denver, CO scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 6%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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

Denver, CO: 5.3 → 6.7 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 10.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.57× in 2024

Denver, CO's TCR rose 1.4 from 5.3 in 2016 to 6.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 10.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.57× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424690 · Arvada, CO ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.0 · 316% of ind

  • DART 4.0 DART
  • RANK #11/12
  • PHOTO Solvents & Petroleum…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 42 inj
  • SIZE ~91 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Solvents & Petroleum Service, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Denver, CO in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Denver, CO averages 7.0 TCR (316% of the Organic chemicals merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Denver, CO TCR series: 2016=5.3 · 2017=5.7 · 2018=10.3 · 2020=5.2 · 2022=8.1 · 2023=7.5 · 2024=6.7 · BLS 2.2

Where Denver, CO falls in its industry

766 Organic chemicals merchant who establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Colorado alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 12 Organic chemicals merchant who employers in Colorado.

Denver, CO (91 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9 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 050100150200 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Denver, CO
Denver, CO (91 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Denver, CO has more employees than the Organic chemicals merchant wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. 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 6.7 4.0 5 0 0
2023 7.5 3.2 4 3 0
2022 8.1 5.8 7 0 0
2020 5.2 0.9 6 0 0
2018 10.3 3.1 9 1 0
2017 5.7 1.0 6 0 0
2016 5.3 2.6 5 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424690 · CO · Arvada

766 Organic chemicals merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,007 rated employers in Colorado with headcount on file · 129 employers in Arvada, 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 Solvents & Petroleum Service, Inc. 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hillyard Co. - Des Moines 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 01-NCA 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR First Source Worldwide, LLC 6.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Fort Collins Operations Center-400 91 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sun Construction & Design Services, Inc. 91 FTE
STATE-SIZE 501-CO-Westminster 91 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gregory Electric LLC 91 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sundyne LLC 360 FTE
CITY-NEAR WANCO, Inc. 308 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lumin8 Transportation Technologies, LLC. 298 FTE
CITY-NEAR LivaNova 276 FTE
NAT-TCR Apex-Nashville 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 3025, 8472 Kao 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Tavares Pediatric Center 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Baton Rouge Btr 7.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Aegis of Fremont 91 FTE
NAT-SIZE Aegis Living Home Office 91 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hilton Garden Inn College Town 91 FTE
NAT-SIZE Flex-Strut, Inc. 91 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, 2020, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.