TCR, interpreted
Far above average
6.0 avg TCR
State profile · OSHA ITA
Colorado workplace safety
How 9,007 OSHA-reporting employers across Colorado compare on workplace injuries, 2016–2024. Average TCR uses the 7,977 establishments with a credible rate (see methodology).
- 9,007
- Employers
- 6.0
- Avg TCR (rated)
- 167,278
- Injuries (all)
- 94
- Fatalities (all)
Colorado vs all states by OSHA-reporting employer count
Where this state's ITA establishment inventory sits among every tracked state and territory (coverage signal, not a safety ranking)
9,007 21st of 54 higher than 33 of 54 states
States and territories, banded by OSHA ITA reporting employer count
Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more states. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source official public datasets · 2026
The state picture
Colorado's 7,977 rated reporting employers average 6.0 recordable injuries per 100 workers, 2.2 times the ~2.7 all-industry private-sector norm.
- 6.0
- avg TCR · rated subset
- 7,977
- rated employers
- 9,007
- all reporting employers
- 167,278
- recordable injuries (all)
Inventory counts and injury/fatality totals cover all 9,007 ITA establishments; the average TCR excludes zero-rate and corrupt-hours filings. See Methodology → Three Populations.
A · 12% B · 10% C · 25% D · 23% F · 30%
30% of Colorado's reporting establishments earn an F and 12% an A, each measured against its own industry benchmark, not the state line. These grades are a transparent derived index, not an official OSHA rating; see the Methodology for the exact formula.
Where Colorado ranks among states
54 states & territories by avg TCRColorado's average TCR of 6.0 is lower than 21% of states, a state average reflects industry mix as much as workplace safety.
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A second cut tells a different story: ranked by rated-subset injury rate alone, Colorado is #43 of 54. Ranked instead by fatalities per rated employer establishment (same 7,977-employer subset), it's #11 of 54, a 32-place swing. A state can run a moderate everyday injury rate while its rarer, most severe incidents cluster differently; the two metrics measure different things on the same population and shouldn't be read as interchangeable.
How Colorado Workplaces Compare
Colorado hosts 9,007 employer establishments currently reporting to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. These are not small shops: federal rules require ITA submission from workplaces with 250+ employees in any industry, plus workplaces with 20+ employees in the roughly 60 NAICS codes classified as high-hazard (construction, manufacturing, healthcare, warehousing, agriculture, and others). Across this Colorado cohort, workers have logged 167,278 recordable injuries. The published state average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 6.0 injuries per 100 full-time workers uses the 7,977 establishments with a credible rate (zero-rate and corrupt-hours filings stay in the inventory counts above but are excluded from the average, see methodology).
The state has recorded 94 workplace fatalities in the reporting window, which is tracked separately from non-fatal injury counts because fatal events have their own investigation trail under 29 CFR 1904.39. Reading state-level TCR requires context: the headline figure is driven by a state's industry mix. A state with a heavy construction, logging, or meatpacking footprint will mechanically post higher TCR than a state dominated by finance or professional services, even when individual employers are equally well-managed. That is why the employer table below sorts each establishment by its own TCR and letter grade, against the BLS benchmark for its specific industry, not against the state average.
For jobseekers, relocators, investors, and local safety professionals, state-level pages function as an entry point: use the grade-sorted list to spot the safest and highest-risk employers in Colorado, then click through to an individual establishment for its year-by-year injury, illness, DART, and fatality trajectory. Compare multiple years before drawing conclusions, a single outlier year can reflect a specific event, whereas a sustained pattern across reporting cycles is a more reliable risk signal. All data comes directly from employer-submitted OSHA Form 300A summaries. State OSHA plans in 22 states operate their own enforcement programs in parallel, but the injury data above is harmonized through the federal ITA system.
Employers in Colorado, by injury rate
Page 133 of 180| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Swy-0005-0005-03727 Fac-03727-Walsenburg-Co | Walsenburg | Supermarkets and Other Groce | B | 1.9 |
| Navajo Express | Denver | Trucking, general freight, l | A | 1.9 |
| Pueblo, Co #00068 | Pueblo | Retail Hardware Stores | B | 1.9 |
| Photon Brothers, Inc. | Westminster | Electric power generation, s | D | 1.9 |
| Durango WECO | Durango | Construction machinery and e | C | 1.9 |
| 3016189 BATC AMC Expansion | Broomfield | Commercial building construc | B | 1.9 |
| Dynalectric | Lakewood | Electrical contractors | B | 1.9 |
| Brighton Care Center | Brighton | Skilled nursing facilities | A | 1.9 |
| DL - Dillon (Frisco) | Frisco | Grocery stores | B | 1.9 |
| A&S Construction | Canon City | Road construction | B | 1.9 |
| Denver Distribution Center | Henderson | Timbers | C | 1.9 |
| Dick Brickell & Sons Inc. | Denver | Anchored earth retention con | B | 1.9 |
| RimRock Oil & Gas | Greenwood Village | Crude petroleum from oil sha | C | 1.9 |
| Bent County Healthcare Center | Las Animas | Skilled nursing facilities | A | 1.9 |
| Reserve 1 Manitou | Manitou Springs | Botanical drugs and herbs me | C | 1.9 |
| Main Office - 01 | Englewood | Transportation | A | 1.9 |
| Rock Canyon Respiratory and Rehabilitation | Pueblo | Skilled nursing facilities | A | 1.9 |
| Eckstine Electric Co | Platteville | Low voltage electrical work | B | 1.9 |
| Henderson Agronomy | Henderson | Fertilizers, mixed, made in | B | 1.9 |
| Spacecon Specialty Contractors, LLC | Wheat Ridge | Drywall contractors | B | 1.9 |
| W.H.O. Manufacturing Co., Inc. | Lamar | Shredders, farm-type, manufa | B | 1.9 |
| 5241 - P41lgk-Lgk | Denver | Drugs and Druggists Sundries | C | 1.9 |
| Magnolia Denver | Denver | Hotels (except casino hotels | B | 1.9 |
| Delta Air Lines - COS | Colorado Springs | Scheduled Air Transportation | A | 1.9 |
| Patterson Logistics Services 11 | Denver | Dental equipment and supplie | C | 1.9 |
| BHGCO - Glenwood Springs (CO024) | Glenwood Springs | Distribution of natural gas | D | 1.9 |
| Ampio Pharmaceuticals | Englewood | Pharmaceutical preparations | B | 1.9 |
| Residenc Inn by Marriott | Boulder | Hotels (except casino hotels | B | 1.9 |
| Whirlpool | Aurora | General warehousing and stor | A | 1.9 |
| Denver - BMD | Denver | Lumber Plywood Millwork and | C | 1.9 |
| Bron Aerotech, Inc. | Denver | Industrial supplies (except | C | 1.9 |
| Friends of Dinosaur Ridge | Morrison | Natural science museums | B | 1.9 |
| In-Situ Inc | Fort Collins | Viscosimeters, industrial pr | B | 1.9 |
| Colorado Floorworks Inc | Denver | Flooring, wood, merchant who | C | 1.9 |
| Zito Trucking - LaSalle | La Salle | Agricultural products trucki | A | 1.9 |
| Swy-0005-0005-00637 Fac-00637-Steamboat Springs-Co | Steamboat Springs | Supermarkets and Other Groce | B | 1.9 |
| Swy-0005-0005-02791 Fac-02791-Littleton-Co | Littleton | Supermarkets and Other Groce | B | 1.9 |
| Paramount Fabrics | Arvada | Window shade and blind insta | B | 1.9 |
| Aurora-Sable, CO Biomat | Aurora | Blood and Organ Banks | A | 1.9 |
| Intermountain STIHL | Aurora | Private warehousing and stor | A | 1.9 |
| DVR | Denver | Scientific laboratory equipm | C | 1.9 |
| DPI Specialty Foods - Rocky Mountain | Henderson | General-line groceries merch | C | 1.9 |
| Summit Utilities, Inc Corporate Office | Centennial | Distribution of natural gas | D | 1.9 |
| Bricker Wilson Construction Services, LLC. | Englewood | Utility line (i.e., sewer, w | B | 1.9 |
| Del IPS Company, Inc. | Englewood | Finish carpentry | B | 1.9 |
| Cheyenne Mountain Resort | Colorado | Hospitality | B | 1.9 |
| VRS Denver, CO | Westminster | Translation and Interpretati | F | 1.9 |
| Corporate | Rifle | Compressor, metering and pum | B | 1.9 |
| The Residences | Louisville | Retirement homes without nur | A | 1.9 |
| Bombardier Transportation - Denver - DEN | Denver | Airport transit systems oper | A | 1.9 |
Nationwide states with similar injury rates or employer scale
Two PlainSafetyScore-derived peer sets for Colorado: nearest states and territories by rated-subset average Total Case Rate and by OSHA-reporting employer inventory. These are cross-state neighborhoods, not the employer list above.
Similar average TCR
Nearest states by rated-subset Total Case Rate (6.0 here).
Similar employer inventory
Nearest states by reporting employer count (9,007 here).
Look up a Colorado employer → · Compare all states → · How TCR is measured →
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainSafetyScore
Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.