State profile · OSHA ITA
Colorado workplace safety
How 9,007 OSHA-reporting employers across Colorado compare on workplace injuries, 2016–2024.
- 9,007
- Employers
- 6.0
- Avg TCR
- 167,278
- Injuries
- 94
- Fatalities
The state picture
Colorado's 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 · per 100 workers
- 9,007
- employers reporting
- 167,278
- recordable injuries
- 94
- worker fatalities
State average reflects each state's industry mix. Sort the table below by each employer's own grade against its industry benchmark.
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.
A second cut tells a different story: ranked by injury rate alone, Colorado is #43 of 54. Ranked instead by fatalities per employer establishment, it's #12 of 54, a 31-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 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, producing a state average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 6.0 injuries per 100 full-time workers per year during 2016–2024.
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 139 of 180| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Faricy Boys Ford | Canon City | New car dealers | A | 1.5 |
| 6400-Swy 0045 8277 | Denver | All Other Miscellaneous Food | A | 1.5 |
| Centennial Operations | Centennial | Forming machines (except dra | A | 1.5 |
| 6400-Swy 0005 1634 | Longmont | Supermarkets and Other Groce | A | 1.5 |
| Insituform Technologies LLC - Littleton | Littleton | Utility line (i.e., sewer, w | B | 1.5 |
| E Light Electric Services, Inc. | Englewood | Electrical contractors | B | 1.5 |
| 341 Lone Tree | Lone Tree | Department Store | A | 1.5 |
| Longmont Plant | Longmont | Industrial gases manufacturi | A | 1.5 |
| Bruce Mechanical of Colorado, Inc. | Denver | Heating, ventilation and air | B | 1.5 |
| S171 - Colorado Service Center | Denver | Janitorial Services | A | 1.5 |
| 5305 - T05cos-Crad-Cos Co | Colorado Springs | Lessors of Miniwarehouses an | C | 1.5 |
| Keystone Property Management | Keystone | Alpine skiing facilities wit | A | 1.5 |
| Ssc - Store Support Center | Lakewood | Grocery stores | A | 1.5 |
| Loveland, CO-Biolife 638 | Loveland | Plasmapheresis Center | A | 1.5 |
| Encore Electric | Lakewood | Electric contracting | B | 1.5 |
| SiteWise Corporation | Wheat Ridge | Natural gas pipeline constru | B | 1.5 |
| Southeast Health Group | La Junta | Outpatient mental health cen | A | 1.5 |
| S Colorado Springs SC | Colorado Springs | - | A | 1.5 |
| 2000 - Environmental Denver CO (inc 2000,2001,2005,2008,2016) | Denver | Environmental remediation se | B | 1.5 |
| Gpd Global, Inc. | Grand Junction | Semiconductor assembly and p | A | 1.5 |
| Woodward Inc. - WTC Facility | Windsor | Developing and producing pro | A | 1.5 |
| Sodexo at Colorado Mesa University | Grand Junction | Food Service Contractors | A | 1.5 |
| Reed Mill & Lumber Co., Inc. | Denver | Moldings, clear and finger j | A | 1.5 |
| Translogic Corporation dba Swisslog Healthcare | Broomfield | Conveyor and Conveying Equip | A | 1.5 |
| 415 SW Denver | Littleton | Department Store | A | 1.5 |
| 4186-02671 | Pueblo | All Other General Merchandis | A | 1.5 |
| Utility Control and Equipment Corporation | Arvada | Control panels, electric pow | A | 1.5 |
| Aurora DSD | Aurora | Transfer (trucking) services | A | 1.5 |
| Veolia WTS Analytical Instruments, Inc. | Boulder | Water quality monitoring and | A | 1.5 |
| United Rotorcraft - CO | Englewood | Aircraft assemblies, subasse | A | 1.5 |
| Colorado First Construction dba CFC Construction Inc. | Golden | Apartment building construct | A | 1.5 |
| 6494 | Loveland | General Warehousing and Stor | A | 1.5 |
| Element Basalt Aspen | Basalt | Hotels (except casino hotels | A | 1.5 |
| HPM Inc. | Centennial | Addition, alteration and ren | B | 1.5 |
| Transit Mix - Costilla RMX | Colorado Springs | Ready-mix concrete manufactu | A | 1.5 |
| Sodexo at Campus Village Apartments | Denver | Food Service Contractors | A | 1.5 |
| MWI Animal Health | Aurora | Veterinarians' equipment and | B | 1.5 |
| Blackeagle Fabrication | Berthoud | Oil storage tanks, heavy gau | A | 1.5 |
| STS Operating - Denver | Denver | Agricultural machinery and e | B | 1.5 |
| TK Elevator Colorado Springs | Colorado Springs | Elevator installation conve | B | 1.5 |
| DePuy Synthes Colorado Spring | Colorado Springs | Medical Devide Education log | B | 1.5 |
| Gmf Finance_1439607 | Denver | Mail and Parcel Delivery | A | 1.5 |
| Faith Enterprises Incorporated | Colorado Springs | Warehouse, commercial and in | B | 1.5 |
| Cetis Inc. | Colorado Springs | Telecommunications resellers | F | 1.5 |
| Western States Fire Protection | Centennial | Fire sprinkler system instal | B | 1.5 |
| Front Range Wireless, Inc. | Centennial | Telecommunications equipment | B | 1.5 |
| mwh constructors | Broomfield | Water treatment plant constr | B | 1.5 |
| Commercial HVAC Americas : SVC-Pacific Northwest Rocky Mountain : SVC-Denver CO-USA | Denver | - | B | 1.5 |
| Twin Monkeys Beverage Systems | Denver | Brewery machinery manufactur | A | 1.5 |
| Colorado Transportation | Henderson | Tower, power distribution an | B | 1.5 |
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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What Colorado's safety record means for you
Colorado averages a TCR of 6.0 - about 2.2× the ~2.7 national private-sector norm. A state average hides wide employer-by-employer variation.
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State averages use the credible-subset mean across reporting establishments; they are statistical summaries, not regulatory assessments.
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.