Alpine skiing facilities with accommodations (i.e., ski resort) · Colorado

Snowmass Ski Area

Aspen, CO · ~1,295 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.8
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Snowmass Ski Area runs at 294% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Alpine skiing facilities with accommodations (i.e., ski resort) workplace, earning a grade F.

Snowmass Ski Area: 8.8 TCR = 294% of Alpine skiing facilities with accommodations (i.e., ski resort) BLS 3.0 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Snowmass Ski Area safety composite

Snowmass Ski Area scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 9%), 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Snowmass Ski Area: 5.7 → 10.9 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 10.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.95× in 2020

Snowmass Ski Area's TCR rose 5.1 from 5.7 in 2016 to 10.9 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0.95× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 721110 · Aspen, CO ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade F · TCR 8.8 · 294% of ind

  • DART 8.3 DART
  • RANK #235/308
  • PHOTO Hotel Indigo St. Lou…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 188 inj
  • SIZE ~1,295 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hotel Indigo St. Louis Downtown (0.0 TCR gap)

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Snowmass Ski Area in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Snowmass Ski Area averages 8.8 TCR (294% of the Alpine skiing facilities with accommodations (i.e., ski resort) BLS benchmark).

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

Snowmass Ski Area TCR series: 2016=5.7 · 2017=8.6 · 2018=8.1 · 2019=10.8 · 2020=10.9 · BLS 3.0

Where Snowmass Ski Area falls in its industry

9,342 Alpine skiing facilities with establishments

Safer than 19% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Colorado alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #235 safest of 308 Alpine skiing facilities with employers in Colorado.

Snowmass Ski Area (1,295 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Snowmass Ski Area
Snowmass Ski Area (1,295 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Snowmass Ski Area has more employees than the Alpine skiing facilities with accommodat median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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 10.9 8.3 42 1 0
2019 10.8 7.3 50 2 0
2018 8.1 7.2 37 0 0
2017 8.6 8.1 32 0 0
2016 5.7 4.3 27 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

721110 · CO · Aspen

9,342 Alpine skiing facilities with accommodations (i.e., ski resort) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,007 rated employers in Colorado with headcount on file · 32 employers in Aspen, 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 Hotel Indigo St. Louis Downtown 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR HarborWalk Hospitality 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sheraton Milwaukee Brookfield 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Charlotte Airport/Lake Pointe (HP) 8.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : DEN2 1,297 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hach Company 1,291 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fort Collins 1,285 FTE
STATE-SIZE Vestas America Wind Technologies, Inc. 1,283 FTE
CITY-NEAR Buttermilk Ski Area 465 FTE
CITY-NEAR ASC Parent Company 456 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Little Nell Hotel 454 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aspen Mountain Ski Area 386 FTE
NAT-TCR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : MKC6 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR The Butler Weldments Corporation 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Tmx2553 - Russellville 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Roberta Health & Rehab 8.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cable Networks : CNBC - Englewood Cliffs 1,295 FTE
NAT-SIZE LK Jordan, Corpus Christi, LTD L.K. Jordan & Associates 1,295 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4795-PD-PHL-PHILADELPHIA-PD 1,295 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Los Angeles Library Department 1,295 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, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.