Employer · Colorado

S04012 - Denver Arapahoe Disposal (DADS)

Aurora, CO · ~58 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.1
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

S04012 - Denver Arapahoe Disposal (DADS) runs at 158% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade D.

S04012 - Denver Arapahoe Disposal (DADS): 4.1 TCR = 158% of industry BLS 2.6 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

S04012 - Denver Arapahoe Disposal (DADS) safety composite

S04012 - Denver Arapahoe Disposal (DADS) scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 37%), 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).

D

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

S04012 - Denver Arapahoe Disposal (DADS): 0.0 → 5.3 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 9.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.86× in 2023

S04012 - Denver Arapahoe Disposal (DADS)'s TCR rose 5.3 from 0.0 in 2017 to 5.3 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2018 at 9.5 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.86× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562212 · Aurora, CO ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.1 · 158% of ind

  • DART 3.5 DART
  • RANK #5/5
  • PHOTO S10034 - Deep Six La…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~58 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: S10034 - Deep Six Landfill (0.0 TCR gap)

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S04012 - Denver Arapahoe Disposal (DADS) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows S04012 - Denver Arapahoe Disposal (DADS) averages 4.1 TCR (158% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

S04012 - Denver Arapahoe Disposal (DADS) TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=9.5 · 2019=2 · 2020=2.2 · 2021=5.9 · 2022=3.8 · 2023=5.3 · BLS 2.6

Where S04012 - Denver Arapahoe Disposal (DADS) falls in its industry

288 industry establishments

Safer than 47% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

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

S04012 - Denver Arapahoe Disposal (DADS) (58 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 050100150200 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate S04012 - Denver Arapahoe Disposal (DADS)
S04012 - Denver Arapahoe Disposal (DADS) (58 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 3.9

S04012 - Denver Arapahoe Disposal (DADS) has more employees than the industry median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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
2023 5.3 3.5 3 0 0
2022 3.8 3.8 2 0 0
2021 5.9 3.9 3 0 0
2020 2.2 2.2 1 0 0
2019 2.0 2.0 1 0 0
2018 9.5 0.0 2 3 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562212 · CO · Aurora

288 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,007 rated employers in Colorado with headcount on file · 497 employers in Aurora, 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 S10034 - Deep Six Landfill 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sunny Farms Landfill 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR S04008 - Twin Bridges LF 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Modern Disposal Buffalo Recycle 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Medicine Man 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Silverline Services Windsor 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE COLORADO STRUCTURES INC 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hyder Construction 58 FTE
CITY-NEAR Children's Hospital Colorado 6,663 FTE
CITY-NEAR Raytheon_Aurora_CO 2,237 FTE
CITY-NEAR Primoris Renewable Energy 1,695 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - DEN5 1,601 FTE
NAT-TCR South Burlington #228 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR King County Public Health 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Jackson Al Dirt Cheap 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Ward Manufacturing, LLC 4.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Fabrication Associates Inc 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Watkins Concrete Block 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE iConstructors 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE River Rouge Power Plant 58 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.