Power washer cleaning equipment manufacturing · Colorado

Karcher North America

Denver, CO · ~619 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Karcher North America runs at 141% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Power washer cleaning equipment manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Karcher North America: 4.6 TCR = 141% of Power washer cleaning equipment manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Karcher North America safety composite

Karcher North America scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 20%), 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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.9

2019→2020

Karcher North America injury rate improved

Karcher North America's TCR fell 2.9 from 6.1 in 2019 to 3.2 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 6.1 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.69× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=6.1 · 2020=3.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333318 · Denver, CO ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.6 · 141% of ind

  • DART 3.2 DART
  • RANK #4/5
  • PHOTO BADA
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 47 inj
  • SIZE ~619 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: BADA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Karcher North America in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Karcher North America averages 4.6 TCR (141% of the Power washer cleaning equipment manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Karcher North America TCR series: 2019=6.1 · 2020=3.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Karcher North America falls in its industry

361 Power washer cleaning equipmen establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Colorado alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 5 Power washer cleaning equipmen employers in Colorado.

Karcher North America (619 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 77 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 05001,0001,5002,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Karcher North America
Karcher North America (619 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 77 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Karcher North America has more employees than the Power washer cleaning equipment manufact median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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
2020 3.2 3.2 10 0 0
2019 6.1 3.0 37 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333318 · CO · Denver

361 Power washer cleaning equipment manufacturing 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 BADA 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vacutech 2 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chem-Aqua 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stevenson Drive 4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE NBB-FTC 620 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schomp Automotive 618 FTE
STATE-SIZE 71088 618 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ski School (Kids) - Beaver Creek 620 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 Homewood Suites - Cape Canaveral 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Spice Chain Corp. 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR AMI - Transportation 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Xeriscape 4.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE AGCO Corporation Corporate Headquarters 619 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jacksonville Regency 619 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1855-DCWAS1 619 FTE
NAT-SIZE Illinois - I6 619 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: 2020, 2019. 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.