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 148 of 180| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Murphy Company (Colorado) | Denver | Mechanical contractors | A | 1.0 |
| KBJC - Broomfield, CO | Broomfield | Air passenger carriers, nons | A | 1.0 |
| Wheat Ridge Container | Wheat Ridge | Boxes, corrugated and solid | A | 1.0 |
| Rocky Mountain | Centennial | Highway construction | A | 1.0 |
| DEN1-DWH-DENVER | Denver | SINGLE FAMILY HOMEBUILDER | A | 1.0 |
| Forbes Bros. Timberline Construction, Inc. DBA FB Timberline | Greenwood Village | Utility line (i.e., communic | A | 1.0 |
| Colorado Operations (Frederick, CO) | Frederick | Construction management, com | A | 1.0 |
| Black Hawk Lady Luck (415) | Black Hawk | Casino/Hotel Entertainment | A | 1.0 |
| Colorado Springs - Nixon Station | Colorado Springs | Power and Communication Line | A | 1.0 |
| Moltz Construction | Salida | Construction management, wat | A | 1.0 |
| 105082 - DW Gross Reservoir Expansion CM/GC | Nederland | Dam construction | A | 1.0 |
| Preferred Medical Products- Simla | Matheson | Hypodermic needles and syrin | A | 1.0 |
| Commercial Building Services | Littleton | Commercial building construc | A | 1.0 |
| Nelnet - Aurora | Aurora | Bank clearinghouse associati | D | 1.0 |
| 534 Colorado Springs, Co | Colorado Springs | Family Clothing Stores | A | 1.0 |
| 76020011--Denver United Pba | Denver | - | A | 1.0 |
| Specialty Appliance GWV | Greenwood Village | Building materials supply de | A | 1.0 |
| Apex Plumbing Inc. | Arvada | Construction management, wat | A | 1.0 |
| Headquarters-Colorado | Windsor | Electrical contractors | A | 1.0 |
| Childrens Hosp Colorado EVS | Denver | - | A | 1.0 |
| SBS Cisco - Englewood | Englewood | Gas analyzers, industrial pr | A | 1.0 |
| SEH - Denver | Denver | Engineering Services | D | 1.0 |
| 4238-960 | Boulder | Residential Mental Health an | A | 1.0 |
| NA Field Sales | Denver | Hoses, rubberized fabric, ma | A | 1.0 |
| KMG Electronic Chemicals - Pueblo | Pueblo | Sulfuric acid manufacturing | A | 1.0 |
| MillerCoors Corporate Office - Golden | Golden | Corporate offices | D | 1.0 |
| TCCo-DEN | Greenwood Village | Commercial Building Construc | A | 0.9 |
| Inspirato LLC | Denver | Tourist homes | A | 0.9 |
| Northern Colorado Maintenance Center | Frederick | Transmission of electric pow | B | 0.9 |
| United Pipeline Systems Inc. | Durango | Construction management, wat | A | 0.9 |
| AGC Biologics, Inc. | Boulder | Gene therapy preparations ma | A | 0.9 |
| Centura Corporate | Centennial | Corporate offices | D | 0.9 |
| Taft Shop | Fort Collins | Aggregates | A | 0.9 |
| Space and Airborne Systems : CO, CO Springs - All South Murray Blvd (SAS-SSG) | Colorado Springs | Search, Detection, Navigatio | A | 0.9 |
| Lakewood (20) | Littleton | Furniture stores (e.g., hous | A | 0.9 |
| PMI / Custodial Dept. at LANL | Denver | Building cleaning services, | A | 0.9 |
| Big Lots Store #4341 LAKEWOOD, CO | Lakewood | Retail Other | A | 0.9 |
| Hudson Grove Property Management | Lakewood | Residential property managin | B | 0.9 |
| RLG - Sticker Giant | Longmont | Paper Bag and Coated and Tre | A | 0.9 |
| Lpr Construction | Loveland | Erecting structural steel | A | 0.9 |
| Watermill Express - Corporate | Brighton | Vending machine merchandiser | A | 0.9 |
| CPI Card Group Corporate | Littleton | Printing, photo-offset (exce | A | 0.9 |
| SomaLogic - 2950 Wilderness Place | Boulder | Diagnostic substances, in-vi | A | 0.9 |
| 1480 | Louisville | Electromedical equipment man | A | 0.9 |
| Interstate Warehouse Denver - Tejon | Denver | General warehousing and stor | A | 0.9 |
| Elkhorn Construction, Elkhorn Pipeline Services | Greeley | Gathering line, gas and oil | A | 0.9 |
| CMC Rebar Brighton | Brighton | Concrete reinforcing bar (re | A | 0.9 |
| 1144 15th Street | Denver | Commercial property managing | B | 0.9 |
| Bobcat of the Rockies - Henderson | Commerce City | Construction and Mining exce | A | 0.9 |
| SEMA Construction, Inc. | Centennial | Repair, highway, road, stree | A | 0.9 |
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.