General medical and surgical hospitals · Colorado

Southwest Health System, Inc.

Name: Southwest Health System, Inc. Workplace Safety Data
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Cortez, CO · ~416 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 4.5
Avg TCR: 7.5
Industry avg: 1
Fatality

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The verdict

Southwest Health System, Inc. runs at 60% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical General medical and surgical hospitals workplace, earning a grade B.

Southwest Health System, Inc.: 4.5 TCR = 60% of General medical and surgical hospitals BLS 7.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Southwest Health System, Inc. safety composite

Southwest Health System, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 2%), 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).

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 4.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% of industry peers
DART rate: C 0.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers
Fatalities: F 1

Safer than 2% 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

Southwest Health System, Inc.: 3.7 → 4.1 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 8.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.19× in 2023

Southwest Health System, Inc.'s TCR rose 0.4 from 3.7 in 2016 to 4.1 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2019 at 8.7 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.19× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · Cortez, CO AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 4.5 · 60% of ind

DART 0.9 DART
RANK #38/101
PHOTO UNC Rex Healthcare
BOOK 6y book
INJ 90 inj
SIZE ~416 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: UNC Rex Healthcare (0.0 TCR gap)

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4.5
UNC Rex Health

4.5
Hillcrest Hosp

4.5
3638-T

4.5
Community Hosp

4.5

What this shows Southwest Health System, Inc. averages 4.5 TCR (60% of the General medical and surgical hospitals BLS benchmark).

Southwest Health System, Inc. TCR series: 2016=3.7 · 2017=4.5 · 2019=8.7 · 2020=2.8 · 2022=3.5 · 2023=4.1 · BLS 7.5

Where Southwest Health System, Inc. falls in its industry

6,862 General medical and surgical h establishments

Safer than 60% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Colorado alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #38 safest of 101 General medical and surgical h employers in Colorado.

Southwest Health System, Inc. (416 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Southwest Health System, Inc. has fewer employees than the General medical and surgical hospitals median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.2. 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	4.1	0.9	14	0	0
2022	3.5	0.3	10	3	1
2020	2.8	0.8	10	0	0
2019	8.7	1.6	26	2	0
2017	4.5	1.3	17	0	0
2016	3.7	0.8	13	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · CO · Cortez

6,862 General medical and surgical hospitals employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,007 rated employers in Colorado with headcount on file · 21 employers in Cortez, CO · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	UNC Rex Healthcare	RALEIGH, NC	4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Hillcrest Hospital	MAYFIELD HTS, OH	4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	3638-T	TROY, OH	4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Community Hospital	901 MAC ARTHUR BLVD., IN	4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Startek - At Home 1	DENVER	416 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Corporate Office (Grand Junction, CO)	GRAND JUNCTION	417 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Suncor Energy - Commerce City Refinery	COMMERCE CITY	417 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Isle & Lady Luck Casino Hotel Black Hawk	BLACK HAWK	415 FTE
CITY-NEAR	966	Cortez	314 FTE
CITY-NEAR	WM 966	Cortez	288 FTE
CITY-NEAR	620-00408	Cortez	125 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Osprey Packs, Inc. - Cortez	Cortez	96 FTE
NAT-TCR	Pacifica Spring Valley LLC	Las Vegas, NV	4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Custom One Painting	Minneapollis, MN	4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Tecmotiv (USA), Inc.	Niagara Falls, NY	4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Mibes - Bessemer (Ironwood) Center	Ironwood, MI	4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Beltsville Md	Beltsville, MD	416 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Flagstone Foods, LLC	El Paso, TX	416 FTE
NAT-SIZE	DeSoto Overhaul Center	Desoto, TX	416 FTE
NAT-SIZE	County of Yadkin	Yadkinville, NC	416 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, 2020, 2019, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.