Critical Access Hospital · Colorado
Rio Grande Hospital
Del Norte, CO · ~175 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- A
- Excellent Safety Record
- 2.7
- Avg TCR
- 7.5
- Industry avg
- 0
- Fatalities
The verdict
Rio Grande Hospital runs at 36% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Critical Access Hospital workplace, earning a grade A.
- A
- Excellent Safety Record
- 2.7
- avg TCR · per 100 workers
- 7.5
- industry benchmark (BLS)
- 25
- recordable injuries tracked
Grade compares Rio Grande Hospital's OSHA Total Case Rate of 2.7 to the Critical Access Hospital BLS benchmark of 7.5 (36% of benchmark) across 4 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). <a href="/methodology">See methodology</a> for reporting-limitation caveats.
Injury rate over time
Rio Grande Hospital's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 7.5 industry benchmark.
Where Rio Grande Hospital falls in its industry
7,181 Critical Access Hospital establishmentsSafer than 79% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.0.
Narrower to Colorado alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #19 safest of 105 Critical Access Hospital employers in Colorado.
Trend analysis for Rio Grande Hospital
Between 2021 and 2023, Rio Grande Hospital's Total Case Rate worsened from 2.7 to 3.4 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 27% increase across 2 years of OSHA reporting.
The safest year on record was 2022, at a TCR of 2.1, while 2023 saw the highest rate, at 3.4, a spread of 1.4 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a wide swing relative to the establishment's overall rate, worth checking the year-by-year table below for whether a single severe year is driving the average, rather than a sustained trend.
Summed across those 3 reporting years, Rio Grande Hospital recorded 12 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 3-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.
Verify This Employer with OSHA
The 25 injuries shown on this page for Rio Grande Hospital are sourced from its own 4 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.
Verify on OSHA Establishment SearchSource: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 622110 - Critical Access Hospital.
DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2024)
What is the DART rate formula?
DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.
1 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 30,141 hours worked = 6.64 DART
Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping
Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State
| Benchmark | TCR | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Rio Grande Hospital (this establishment) | 2.73 | OSHA ITA Form 300A, 4-year avg |
| Hospitals, general medical and surgical industry avg | 7.50 | BLS IIF, NAICS 622110 |
| Colorado state avg (all industries) | 5.41 | OSHA ITA, state-level rollup |
Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program
Reportable Incident Timeline
Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Rio Grande Hospital to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.
- 2024: 13 reportable incidents · 13 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2023: 5 reportable incidents · 5 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2022: 3 reportable incidents · 3 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2021: 4 reportable incidents · 4 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records
Year-by-Year Safety Data
| Year | TCR | DART | Injuries | Illnesses | Fatalities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 86.3 | 6.6 | 13 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 3.4 | 0.0 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2.1 | 0.0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2.7 | 2.7 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
What this grade means for you
Use this grade as a relative read on Rio Grande Hospital's reported OSHA injury record, strong versus its Critical Access Hospital peers, but not a guarantee about any single site today.
- At 36% of the Critical Access Hospital benchmark, Rio Grande Hospital reports fewer injuries than typical peers, still worth asking how safety is managed day to day. Know your rights
- Judge this record against the wider Critical Access Hospital sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
- Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another
Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.
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Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.