484220 Specialized Freight (except Used Goods) Trucking, Local · Colorado

SOUTHWASTE EMPLOYMENT- National Western

Denver, CO · ~23 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

SOUTHWASTE EMPLOYMENT- National Western runs at 262% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical 484220 Specialized Freight (except Used Goods) Trucking, Local workplace, earning a grade F.

SOUTHWASTE EMPLOYMENT- National Western: 11.8 TCR = 262% of 484220 Specialized Freight (except Used Goods) Trucking, Local BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

SOUTHWASTE EMPLOYMENT- National Western safety composite

SOUTHWASTE EMPLOYMENT- National Western scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 4%), 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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

−1.8

2022→2023

SOUTHWASTE EMPLOYMENT- National Western injury rate improved

SOUTHWASTE EMPLOYMENT- National Western's TCR fell 1.8 from 12.7 in 2022 to 10.9 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 12.7 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.92× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=12.7 · 2023=10.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484220 · Denver, CO ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.8 · 262% of ind

  • DART 10.9 DART
  • RANK #29/29
  • PHOTO HTC Garland
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: HTC Garland (0.0 TCR gap)

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SOUTHWASTE EMPLOYMENT- National Western in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows SOUTHWASTE EMPLOYMENT- National Western averages 11.8 TCR (262% of the 484220 Specialized Freight (except Used Goods) Trucking, Local BLS benchmark).

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

SOUTHWASTE EMPLOYMENT- National Western TCR series: 2022=12.7 · 2023=10.9 · BLS 4.5

Where SOUTHWASTE EMPLOYMENT- National Western falls in its industry

1,130 484220 Specialized Freight (ex establishments

Safer than 4% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Colorado alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #29 safest of 29 484220 Specialized Freight (ex employers in Colorado.

SOUTHWASTE EMPLOYMENT- National Western (23 employees, TCR 11.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 42 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate SOUTHWASTE EMPLOYMENT- National Western
SOUTHWASTE EMPLOYMENT- National Western (23 employees, TCR 11.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 42 employees and a TCR of 3.4

SOUTHWASTE EMPLOYMENT- National Western has fewer employees than the 484220 Specialized Freight (except Used median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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 10.9 10.9 1 1 0
2022 12.7 6.3 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484220 · CO · Denver

1,130 484220 Specialized Freight (except Used Goods) Trucking, Local 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 HTC Garland 11.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dubuque Location 11.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jacksons Energy 11.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Camilla Live Haul 11.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE CSS Farms, LLC Colorado City, CO 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Green Solution LLC 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Franklin South 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greenfield Environmental Operations, LLC 23 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 Appalachian Timber Services 11.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Westminster Cracker Company 11.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Lenape Forged Products Corporation 11.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Benton House of Sugar Hill 11.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Machine Division 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Boyd Machine and Repair Co Inc 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Opry Mills 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Saminco West Virginia 23 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.