General medical and surgical hospitals · Colorado
Lutheran Medical Center
Wheat Ridge, CO · ~1,912 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- B
- Good Safety Record
- 5.5
- Avg TCR
- 7.5
- Industry avg
- 0
- Fatalities
The verdict
Lutheran Medical Center runs at 74% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical General medical and surgical hospitals workplace, earning a grade B.
Lutheran Medical Center: 5.5 TCR = 74% of General medical and surgical hospitals BLS 7.5 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)
Lutheran Medical Center safety composite
Lutheran Medical Center scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 45%), 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).
50/100
Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures
- Total Case Rate (TCR)
- D 5.52 per 100 workers
Safer than 45% of industry peers
- DART rate
- D 1.59 per 100 workers
Safer than 53% 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
Lutheran Medical Center: 4.2 → 5.3 TCR
Peak year 2020 @ 6.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.29× in 2024
Lutheran Medical Center's TCR rose 1.0 from 4.2 in 2016 to 5.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 6.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.29× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).
OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard
Establishment book 622110 · Wheat Ridge, CO AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE
Grade B · TCR 5.5 · 74% of ind
- DART 1.6 DART
- RANK #52/101
- PHOTO NYU Langone Orthoped…
- BOOK 8y book
- INJ 542 inj
- SIZE ~1,912 FTE
Nearest TCR peer: NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital (0.0 TCR gap)
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Lutheran Medical Center in the TCR neighbourhood
Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers
- This site
Lutheran Medical Center
5.5 TCR
- NYU Langone Or
NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital
5.5 TCR
- Wesley Medical
Wesley Medical Center
5.5 TCR
- St. Michael 02
St. Michael 029
5.5 TCR
- Tanner Medical
Tanner Medical Center/Villa Rica
5.5 TCR
What this shows Lutheran Medical Center averages 5.5 TCR (74% of the General medical and surgical hospitals BLS benchmark).
Lutheran Medical Center TCR series: 2016=4.2 · 2017=3.7 · 2019=6.5 · 2020=6.7 · 2021=6.1 · 2022=5.7 · 2023=6 · 2024=5.3 · BLS 7.5
Where Lutheran Medical Center falls in its industry
6,862 General medical and surgical h establishmentsSafer than 45% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.
Narrower to Colorado alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #52 safest of 101 General medical and surgical h employers in Colorado.
Lutheran Medical Center has more employees than the General medical and surgical hospitals median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.2. 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 | 5.3 | 1.6 | 76 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 6.0 | 2.3 | 76 | 2 | 0 |
| 2022 | 5.7 | 2.5 | 61 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 6.1 | 2.6 | 83 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 6.7 | 3.6 | 83 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 6.5 | 3.1 | 69 | 1 | 0 |
| 2017 | 3.7 | 1.8 | 46 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | 4.2 | 1.1 | 48 | 0 | 0 |
OSHA ITA peer cross-reference
Establishment peer ledger
622110 · CO · Wheat Ridge
6,862 General medical and surgical hospitals employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,007 rated employers in Colorado with headcount on file · 56 employers in Wheat Ridge, 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 | NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital | 5.5 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | Wesley Medical Center | 5.5 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | St. Michael 029 | 5.5 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | Tanner Medical Center/Villa Rica | 5.5 TCR |
| STATE-SIZE | Western States Fire Protection | 1,876 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | Porter Adventist Hospital | 1,866 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | DEN-GROUND OPS | 1,960 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | St Anthony Hospital | 1,997 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | SiteWise Corporation | 432 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | Rocky Mountain Bottle Company | 239 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | 2021 - Arvada South | 213 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | Baptist Home Association of the Rocky Mountains | 197 FTE |
| NAT-TCR | Altorfer Inc. - Hannibal, MO - 3520 Moberly Avenue | 5.5 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | Hospice of the South Coast, LLC | 5.5 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | Kurita America - Grapevine | 5.5 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | SPSCI Longview Service Center | 5.5 TCR |
| NAT-SIZE | Norton Children's Hospital NCH | 1,912 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | Amazon.com Services LLC - EWR8 | 1,911 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | West Penn Hospital | 1,911 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | 1855-TNNAS43 | 1,913 FTE |
Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.