General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) · Colorado

Mile Hi Foods

Denver, CO · ~216 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Mile Hi Foods runs at 188% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) workplace, earning a grade D.

Mile Hi Foods: 8.4 TCR = 188% of General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Mile Hi Foods safety composite

Mile Hi Foods scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 23%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.6

2016→2024

Mile Hi Foods injury rate improved

Mile Hi Foods's TCR fell 1.6 from 8.7 in 2016 to 7.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 11.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.61× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=8.7 · 2020=4.7 · 2022=10.5 · 2023=11.3 · 2024=7.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484122 · Denver, CO ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 8.4 · 188% of ind

  • DART 5.2 DART
  • RANK #22/32
  • PHOTO Auburn, MA Terminal
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 92 inj
  • SIZE ~216 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Auburn, MA Terminal (0.0 TCR gap)

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Mile Hi Foods in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Mile Hi Foods averages 8.4 TCR (188% of the General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) BLS benchmark).

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

Mile Hi Foods TCR series: 2016=8.7 · 2020=4.7 · 2022=10.5 · 2023=11.3 · 2024=7 · BLS 4.5

Where Mile Hi Foods falls in its industry

3,020 General freight trucking, long establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Colorado alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #22 safest of 32 General freight trucking, long employers in Colorado.

Mile Hi Foods (216 employees, TCR 8.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Mile Hi Foods
Mile Hi Foods (216 employees, TCR 8.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Mile Hi Foods has more employees than the General freight trucking, long-distance, median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.6. 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 7.0 5.2 19 0 0
2023 11.3 9.6 26 0 0
2022 10.5 7.9 24 0 0
2020 4.7 2.0 7 0 0
2016 8.7 7.6 16 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484122 · CO · Denver

3,020 General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) 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 Auburn, MA Terminal 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR ALT 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR BFL-ODFL 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tupelo 167 8.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE CDM Constructors Inc 216 FTE
STATE-SIZE Meadow Gold Englewood - Englewood 216 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stresscon Corporation 216 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pueblo, CO 216 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 Lawrence Transportation - Waynesboro 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Malibu Jacks Ashland 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 4748 Omak 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 2832 Albert Lea 8.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Giant Food Stores 6464 216 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hillsborough YMCA 216 FTE
NAT-SIZE JandJ Brisbane 216 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gonzalez Brothers Farm Services, Inc 216 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, 2016. 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.