Retirement homes with nursing care · Colorado

Vista Mesa Assisted Living

Cortez, CO · ~45 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
7.1
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Vista Mesa Assisted Living runs at 109% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Retirement homes with nursing care workplace, earning a grade C.

Vista Mesa Assisted Living: 7.1 TCR = 109% of Retirement homes with nursing care BLS 6.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Vista Mesa Assisted Living safety composite

Vista Mesa Assisted Living scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 92% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 46%), 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).

C

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 7.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% 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

Vista Mesa Assisted Living: 6.8 → 7.4 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 7.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2017

Vista Mesa Assisted Living's TCR rose 0.6 from 6.8 in 2016 to 7.4 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623110 · Cortez, CO ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 7.1 · 109% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #95/259
  • PHOTO St. Johns Lutheran U…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~45 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: St. Johns Lutheran United- Legacy Campus Billings West End (0.0 TCR gap)

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Vista Mesa Assisted Living in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Vista Mesa Assisted Living averages 7.1 TCR (109% of the Retirement homes with nursing care BLS benchmark).

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

Vista Mesa Assisted Living TCR series: 2016=6.8 · 2017=7.4 · BLS 6.5

Where Vista Mesa Assisted Living falls in its industry

15,252 Retirement homes with nursing establishments

Safer than 46% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Colorado alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #95 safest of 259 Retirement homes with nursing employers in Colorado.

Vista Mesa Assisted Living (45 employees, TCR 7.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 6.6 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Vista Mesa Assisted Living
Vista Mesa Assisted Living (45 employees, TCR 7.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 6.6

Vista Mesa Assisted Living has fewer employees than the Retirement homes with nursing care median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.6. 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 7.4 0.0 1 1 0
2016 6.8 6.8 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623110 · CO · Cortez

15,252 Retirement homes with nursing care 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 Metric
NAICS-TCR St. Johns Lutheran United- Legacy Campus Billings West End 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Windsor Nursing and Rehabilitation Center of Weslaco 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cape Girardeau Operations, LLC dba Life Care Center of Cape Girardeau 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tipton #015 7.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Proctor Division 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE ACA Pit 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Onward Energy Corporate Denver 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Evergreen Service Center-500 45 FTE
CITY-NEAR Southwest Health System, Inc. 416 FTE
CITY-NEAR 966 314 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 966 288 FTE
CITY-NEAR 620-00408 125 FTE
NAT-TCR Bernhard MCC L.L.C. MS 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR TX-01 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR ACE - Storm Lake 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Manor Care Health Services - Montgomeryville 7.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE ADS Waverly 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Advance Transit, Inc. 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Clean Venture Inc. - Clayton 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mercy Restorative Care 45 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.

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