Blood banking · Colorado

Vitalant CO Denver

Denver, CO · ~229 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Vitalant CO Denver runs at 132% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Blood banking workplace, earning a grade D.

Vitalant CO Denver: 5.0 TCR = 132% of Blood banking BLS 3.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Vitalant CO Denver safety composite

Vitalant CO Denver scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 29%), 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).

D

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% 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

Vitalant CO Denver: 3.0 → 4.8 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 6.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.64× in 2023

Vitalant CO Denver's TCR rose 1.8 from 3.0 in 2018 to 4.8 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 6.7 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.64× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621991 · Denver, CO ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.0 · 132% of ind

  • DART 3.2 DART
  • RANK #22/32
  • PHOTO HCSC-Blood Center t/…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 56 inj
  • SIZE ~229 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: HCSC-Blood Center t/a Miller-Keystone Blood Center (0.0 TCR gap)

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Vitalant CO Denver in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Vitalant CO Denver averages 5.0 TCR (132% of the Blood banking BLS benchmark).

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

Vitalant CO Denver TCR series: 2018=3 · 2020=5.6 · 2021=6.7 · 2022=4.8 · 2023=4.8 · BLS 3.8

Where Vitalant CO Denver falls in its industry

1,713 Blood banking establishments

Safer than 41% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Colorado alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #22 safest of 32 Blood banking employers in Colorado.

Vitalant CO Denver (229 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 4.3 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Vitalant CO Denver
Vitalant CO Denver (229 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Vitalant CO Denver has more employees than the Blood banking median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.3. 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 4.8 3.2 12 0 0
2022 4.8 2.8 12 0 0
2021 6.7 2.8 12 0 0
2020 5.6 2.0 11 0 0
2018 3.0 2.7 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621991 · CO · Denver

1,713 Blood banking 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 HCSC-Blood Center t/a Miller-Keystone Blood Center 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wichita Falls-9th, TX - Biomat 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR UTSALT-OPI-SALT LAKE CITY 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jacksonville 2 Biotest Plasma Center 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Concrete Express Inc 229 FTE
STATE-SIZE Front Range 229 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eagle Rock - Denver 229 FTE
STATE-SIZE 620-00134 229 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 Barto Trucking, LLC 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR CORT Operations 7575 Ponce de Leon Circle 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Plainfield Public Sch* 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Branford School Dist 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Veritiv Operating Company - CA020 229 FTE
NAT-SIZE Maron Electric Company 229 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pepper Contracting Services, Inc 229 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hudson 229 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, 2021, 2020, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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