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 151 of 180| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TTM Technologies | Littleton | Circuit boards, printed, bar | A | 0.8 |
| Harvest Energy Services Inc | Broomfield | Commercial and industrial ma | A | 0.8 |
| US060: Denver 419 - SG | Aurora | Fire sprinkler system instal | A | 0.8 |
| Space and Airborne Systems : CO, CO Springs - 8955 AandB Drennan Rd. (SAS-SSG) | Colorado Springs | Search, Detection, Navigatio | A | 0.8 |
| Summit Operations Center | Silverthorne | Electric Power Distribution | B | 0.8 |
| Lucky's Market, Fort Collins | Fort Collins | Grocery stores | A | 0.8 |
| Denver Division | Englewood | Home builders, for-sale | A | 0.8 |
| Green Lake Tube LLC | Colorado Springs | Iron and Steel Pipe and Tube | A | 0.8 |
| Ames Construction | Aurora | Aqueduct construction | A | 0.8 |
| Gilbert Contracting, Inc. | Brighton | Utility line (i.e., sewer, w | A | 0.8 |
| Children's Hospital Colorado - Telstar (Colorado Springs) | Colorado Springs | Children's Hospital | A | 0.8 |
| Applied Control Equipment, LLLP | Englewood | Industrial machinery and equ | A | 0.8 |
| Fillmore Plant | Colorado Springs | Machine shops | A | 0.8 |
| Glenn E. Sessions & Sons | Walden | Natural gas pipeline constru | A | 0.8 |
| Unit # 0644 | Pueblo | Retail | A | 0.8 |
| Denver CO Yard | Denver | Other Building Material Deal | A | 0.8 |
| 2032-16616088 | Denver | General Medical and Surgical | A | 0.8 |
| Milender White | Arvada | Construction management, com | A | 0.8 |
| United Pipeline Systems Durango | Durango | Pipeline rehabilitation cont | A | 0.8 |
| Emerson Automation Solutions | Boulder | Carbon specialties for mecha | A | 0.8 |
| Nursing & Therapy Services of Colorado, Inc. | Colorado Springs | Home health care agencies | A | 0.8 |
| CO | Aurora | Telephone call centers | A | 0.8 |
| BMS Colorado | Westminster | Office equipment merchant wh | A | 0.8 |
| Sterling Ethanol | Sterling | Denatured alcohol manufactur | A | 0.8 |
| Sun Construction & Design Services, Inc. | Longmont | Addition, alteration and ren | A | 0.8 |
| Denver Osage - Refugee Services | Denver | Refugee settlement services | A | 0.8 |
| A-Core of Colorado | Denver | Concrete Sawing Drilling | A | 0.8 |
| Denver Co Distribution Center | Denver | Private warehousing and stor | A | 0.8 |
| Sierra Space | Louisville | Space capsules manufacturing | A | 0.8 |
| OfficeScapes | Denver | Office furniture stores | A | 0.8 |
| Springfield, MA/Hartford/New Haven, CT HVAC | Rocky Hill | Heating, ventilation and air | A | 0.8 |
| Evans | Evans | Equipment Sales/Rental | B | 0.8 |
| Durango Construction | Bayfield | Pavement, highway, road, str | A | 0.8 |
| Spectra Logic 6101 | Boulder | Direct access storage device | A | 0.8 |
| ABSL Power Solutions, Inc. | Longmont | Storage batteries manufactur | A | 0.8 |
| HCOCS13 | Colorado Springs | Radio and Television Broadca | A | 0.8 |
| ERA- Golden | Golden | Water, distilled, manufactur | A | 0.8 |
| 5311C-Denver T&CDspsl Erie Hauling | Erie | Garbage collection services | A | 0.8 |
| Tlc Pipeline Construction | Parachute | Compressor, metering and pum | A | 0.8 |
| Core Electric Inc | Louisville | Electrical contractors | A | 0.8 |
| Peter Mangone, Inc. | Lakewood | Alarm apparatus, electric, m | A | 0.8 |
| 027 - Denver, Co | Denver | Other Urban Transit Systems | A | 0.8 |
| Sandoz Broomfield | Broomfield | Pharmaceutical preparations | A | 0.8 |
| Mar-Tek Industries, Inc | Englewood | Screen printing (except book | A | 0.8 |
| MBM-11 Colorado | Commerce City | Building cleaning services, | A | 0.8 |
| Bold Renewables | Windsor | Inverters, solid-state, manu | A | 0.8 |
| Spectranetics/Philips - Colorado Springs | Colorado Springs | Catheters manufacturing | A | 0.8 |
| 60548 - Capstone Sysco Denver Co | Denver | GEN. WAREHOUSING & STORAGE | A | 0.7 |
| FCI Constructors Inc. | Grand Junction | Commercial building construc | A | 0.7 |
| Pueblo East | Pueblo | Industrial Gas Dist | A | 0.7 |
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.