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 146 of 180| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Co Pera | Denver | Retirement pension plans | F | 1.1 |
| StoneAge Inc. - Durango, CO | Durango | Tools, handheld, nonpowered | A | 1.1 |
| Colorado Powerline Inc. | Castle Rock | Electric power transmission | A | 1.1 |
| I25 North - 061802 | Castle Rock | Pavement, highway, road, str | A | 1.1 |
| 2000 Taylor | Louisville | Guided missile and space veh | A | 1.1 |
| 7102102 FPL Thunder Wolf Energy Center | Avondale | Power and Communication Line | A | 1.1 |
| Great Southwestern Construction, Inc. | Castle Rock | Transmission and distributio | A | 1.1 |
| DJ Basin | Greeley | Natural gas production | B | 1.1 |
| Northern RMX Fleet | Fort Collins | Ready-Mix | A | 1.1 |
| MKS Longmont | Longmont | Industrial process control i | A | 1.1 |
| HBSHSECO24 | Englewood | Electrical, electrical wirin | A | 1.1 |
| Commerce City HQ | Commerce City | - | A | 1.1 |
| Lessar Painting, Inc. | Centennial | Painting and wallpapering | A | 1.1 |
| Denver DC | Henderson | Distribution | B | 1.1 |
| 3021254 - Consolidated Space Operations Facility | Colorado Springs | Addition, alteration and ren | A | 1.1 |
| Mile High Labs - Broomfield | Broomfield | Botanical extract preparatio | A | 1.1 |
| DoubleTree by Hilton Denver | Denver | Hotels (except casino hotels | A | 1.1 |
| Walrath Heating & Air Conditioning Co., Inc. | Lakewood | Sheet metal duct work instal | A | 1.1 |
| Great Lakes E&I | Centennial | Remediation services, enviro | A | 1.1 |
| Lightning Labels | Denver | Offset printing (except book | A | 1.1 |
| Goodwill of Colorado - Highlands Ranch | Highlands Ranch | Apparel stores, used clothin | A | 1.1 |
| Ludvik Electric | Lakewood | Electrical contractors | A | 1.1 |
| Lakewood (Southwest 20) | Littleton | Furniture stores (e.g., hous | A | 1.1 |
| CSC Liberty Colorado Springs 1986 | Colorado Springs | - | A | 1.1 |
| Casey Industrial, Inc | Westminster | Industrial building (except | A | 1.1 |
| Goodwill Industries of Denver - Leetsdale | Denver | Apparel stores, used clothin | A | 1.1 |
| US - Branch Network : 0216 | Denver | Merchant Wholesalers, Durabl | A | 1.1 |
| Denver Container | Denver | - | A | 1.1 |
| NA-US-CO-Loveland-1606 N Lincoln Ave | Loveland | Automotive Sales | A | 1.1 |
| Sw-20730022-Fo Cos - Colorado Springs, Co | Colorado Springs | Transportation Air Carriers | A | 1.1 |
| CO - Englewood | Englewood | Other Support Activities for | A | 1.1 |
| Denver International Airport 45954 | Denver | Car rental | B | 1.1 |
| Pioneer Steel, Inc | New Castle | Structural steel erecting or | A | 1.1 |
| La Junta | La Junta | Pavement, highway, road, str | A | 1.1 |
| Performance Energy Services | Thornton | Petrochemical plant construc | A | 1.1 |
| PDG | Denver | Foundation, building, poured | A | 1.1 |
| Valentia Service Center | Denver | Electric Power Distribution | C | 1.1 |
| Hilltop Health Services Corporation- 1625 N 15th Street | Grand Junction | Base facilities operation su | A | 1.1 |
| 6400-Swy 0005 1071 | Fort Collins | Supermarkets and Other Groce | A | 1.1 |
| MRC Global - 857 Evans, CO | Lasalle | - | A | 1.1 |
| Phenova | Golden | Testing laboratories (except | F | 1.1 |
| 462 Powers Blvd | Colorado Springs | Department Store | A | 1.1 |
| Columbine Health Systems | Fort Collins | Retirement communities, cont | A | 1.1 |
| Concrete Construction | Fountain | Footing and foundation concr | A | 1.1 |
| Y-W Electric Association, Inc. Akron | Akron | Electric power distribution | C | 1.1 |
| Corp Office Support | Niwot | 445110 Supermarkets and Othe | A | 1.1 |
| Simon - McAtee / Sterling | Sterling | Pavement, highway, road, str | A | 1.1 |
| Forney Headquarters | Fort Collins | Welding supplies (except wel | A | 1.1 |
| Fresca Foods - CTC | Louisville | Powders, baking, manufacturi | A | 1.1 |
| Englewood Winsupply Co. | Denver | Boilers (e.g., heating, hot | A | 1.1 |
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 →
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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.