Amusement parks (e.g., theme, water) · Colorado

Elitch Gardens Theme and Waterpark

Name: Elitch Gardens Theme and Waterpark Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Denver, CO · ~1,015 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 6.6
Avg TCR: 3.1
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Elitch Gardens Theme and Waterpark runs at 213% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Amusement parks (e.g., theme, water) workplace, earning a grade F.

Elitch Gardens Theme and Waterpark: 6.6 TCR = 213% of Amusement parks (e.g., theme, water) BLS 3.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Elitch Gardens Theme and Waterpark safety composite

Elitch Gardens Theme and Waterpark scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 60% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 47%), 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).

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 6.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers
DART rate: C 2.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% of industry peers
Fatalities: D 0

Safer than 52% 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

Elitch Gardens Theme and Waterpark: 5.2 → 8.0 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 8.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.39× in 2019

Elitch Gardens Theme and Waterpark's TCR rose 2.8 from 5.2 in 2017 to 8.0 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 713110 · Denver, CO ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade F · TCR 6.6 · 213% of ind

DART 2.5 DART
RANK P47
PHOTO SeaWorld
BOOK 2y book
INJ 43 inj
SIZE ~1,015 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SeaWorld (0.0 TCR gap)

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MW Santa Fe LL

6.7
Anakeesta LLC

6.7
This site

6.6
SeaWorld

6.6
Zoom Flume Wat

6.6

What this shows Elitch Gardens Theme and Waterpark averages 6.6 TCR (213% of the Amusement parks (e.g., theme, water) BLS benchmark).

Elitch Gardens Theme and Waterpark TCR series: 2017=5.2 · 2019=8 · BLS 3.1

Where Elitch Gardens Theme and Waterpark falls in its industry

296 Amusement parks (e.g., theme, establishments

Safer than 47% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.3.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Elitch Gardens Theme and Waterpark (1,015 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 197 employees and a TCR of 6.3

Elitch Gardens Theme and Waterpark has more employees than the Amusement parks (e.g., theme, water) median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.3. 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
2019	8.0	2.5	25	0	0
2017	5.2	0.6	18	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

713110 · CO · Denver

296 Amusement parks (e.g., theme, water) 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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	SeaWorld	ORLANDO, FL	6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Zoom Flume Water Park, LLC	EAST DURHAM, NY	6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	MW Santa Fe LLC	SANTA FE, NM	6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Anakeesta LLC	GATLINBURG, TN	6.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Craig Hospital	ENGLEWOOD	1,014 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Executive Offices - Keystone	KEYSTONE	1,023 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Hunter Douglas Broomfield	BROOMFIELD	1,029 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Amazon.com Services LLC - DEN2	AURORA	1,001 FTE
CITY-NEAR	DEN DEN	Denver	9,832 FTE
CITY-NEAR	6925-DEN	Denver	6,769 FTE
CITY-NEAR	DEN - Airport United Airlines Offices	Denver	5,277 FTE
CITY-NEAR	CO-01	Denver	4,581 FTE
NAT-TCR	CIO Muncie	Muncie, IN	6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	EnerSys Warminster	Warminster, PA	6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	American Recycling Company, LLC - Modesto	Modesto, CA	6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Marinemax Inc-Cmr	Rogers, MN	6.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE	HCA Houston Conroe	Conroe, TX	1,015 FTE
NAT-SIZE	City of Livonia	Livonia, MI	1,015 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Toyota Motor Manufacturing Missouri	Troy, MO	1,015 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Allied Beverage Group	Elizabeth, NJ	1,015 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, 2017. 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.