General medical and surgical hospitals · Colorado

The Medical Center of Aurora South

Aurora, CO · ~1,597 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
21.4
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

The Medical Center of Aurora South runs at 286% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical General medical and surgical hospitals workplace, earning a grade F.

The Medical Center of Aurora South: 21.4 TCR = 286% of General medical and surgical hospitals BLS 7.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

The Medical Center of Aurora South safety composite

The Medical Center of Aurora South scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 0%), 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

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 21.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

The Medical Center of Aurora South: 8.3 → 34.6 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 34.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.54× in 2017

The Medical Center of Aurora South's TCR rose 26.3 from 8.3 in 2016 to 34.6 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0.54× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · Aurora, CO ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade F · TCR 21.4 · 286% of ind

  • DART 11.7 DART
  • RANK #101/101
  • PHOTO CRH Healthcare6221 I…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 174 inj
  • SIZE ~1,597 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CRH Healthcare6221 Inc. (0.1 TCR gap)

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The Medical Center of Aurora South in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows The Medical Center of Aurora South averages 21.4 TCR (286% of the General medical and surgical hospitals BLS benchmark).

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

The Medical Center of Aurora South TCR series: 2016=8.3 · 2017=34.6 · BLS 7.5

Where The Medical Center of Aurora South falls in its industry

6,862 General medical and surgical h establishments

Safer than 0% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

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

The Medical Center of Aurora South (1,597 employees, TCR 21.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2 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 02,0004,0006,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate The Medical Center of Aurora South
The Medical Center of Aurora South (1,597 employees, TCR 21.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

The Medical Center of Aurora South has more employees than the General medical and surgical hospitals median and a higher 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
2017 34.6 11.7 83 0 0
2016 8.3 8.3 91 7 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · CO · Aurora

6,862 General medical and surgical hospitals 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 CRH Healthcare6221 Inc. 21.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bucyrus Hospital/Avita Health System 21.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jay Hospital, Inc. 21.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gordon Memorial Hospital 21.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Terumo BCT - Lakewood 1,599 FTE
STATE-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - DEN5 1,601 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Medical Center of Aurora 1,593 FTE
STATE-SIZE 05070001-050712 ST FRANCIS HOSPITAL - EAST 1,603 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 Transportation Services : DEN5 1,484 FTE
NAT-TCR Anderson Memory Care LLC dba Primrose Memory Care of Anderson 21.4 TCR
NAT-TCR shandin hills behavioral health 21.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Sloatsburg Garage 21.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Red Triangle Oil Company 21.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Houston Methodist West Hospital (Katy, TX) 1,597 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2910 Weck 1,597 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1101 Home Office 1,598 FTE
NAT-SIZE Carleton College 1,598 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: 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.