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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.

Colorado grade distribution 9,004 graded establishments · width = share

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 TCR

Colorado'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 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

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Employer CityIndustryGradeAvg 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
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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.

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.