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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
Mission San Diego Westminster Sandwich shops, limited-serv A 0.7
Newalta Denver Office & Field Operations Denver Materials recovery facilitie A 0.7
Corporate Office Lakewood Thrift shops, used merchandi A 0.7
Glacier Construction CO INC. Centennial Construction A 0.7
Colorado Springs CO Windows Colorado Springs Wood Window and Door Manufac A 0.7
Swy-0005-0005-01479 Fac-01479-Wheat Ridge-Co Wheat Ridge Supermarkets and Other Groce A 0.7
Bell SPI Denver Painting and wallpapering A 0.7
H-2 Enterprises, LLC Keenesburg Excavation contractors A 0.7
Colorado Springs Flea Market Colorado Springs Flea markets, used merchandi A 0.7
WRT Office Westminster Water treatment equipment ma A 0.7
WLM-Limon Wind Plant Limon Power generation, wind elect B 0.7
Sinclair Trucking Company - Denver Denver Automobile carrier trucking, A 0.7
Reconstruction Experts, Inc - Denver Denver Fire and flood restoration, A 0.7
MS - Pueblo, CA - 1PUCO Pueblo Hazardous waste treatment fa A 0.7
Malm Electrical Contractors LLC. Frederick Electrical, electrical wirin A 0.7
50038 Rocky Mountain Corporate Denver - A 0.7
Greeley CO Millwork Greeley Custom Architectural Woodwor A 0.7
Five Rivers Corporate Office Johnstown Beef cattle feedlots (except A 0.7
Zuni Offices Denver Compressed and liquefied ind A 0.7
Suncor Energy - Commerce City Refinery Commerce City Crude oil refining A 0.7
KMM Delivery Services Inc Greeley General freight trucking, lo A 0.7
Liberty Oilfield Services LLC Denver Preparation of oil and gas f A 0.7
Westminster, Colorado, Office Westminster Environmental remediation se A 0.7
Computer Sites, Inc. Denver Administration building cons A 0.7
Richleray Corporation Denver Plating metals and metal pro A 0.7
Falcon Office Falcon Distribution of electric pow B 0.7
3021256 - 1900 Lawrence Street Denver Addition, alteration and ren A 0.7
Kinetic Energy Services LLC Windsor Excavation contractors A 0.7
Brighton Service Center Brighton Natural Gas Distribution B 0.7
Frac Shack America Inc Denver Oil and gas field services ( A 0.7
CGRS All Fort Collins Environmental consulting ser D 0.7
Three Barrel Brewing Co.,LLC Del Norte Breweries A 0.7
CMC Rebar Denver Denver Concrete reinforcing bar (re A 0.7
Ready Mixed Concrete Company Sedalia Sedalia Ready-mix concrete manufactu A 0.7
PCL Construction Services, Inc. Denver Commercial building construc A 0.7
Glass Roots Construction, LLC Lafayette Construction management, pow A 0.7
Walter Kidde Portable Equipment (Colorado Springs) Colorado Springs Smoke detectors manufacturin A 0.7
Farmington Ready Mix Bayfield Cement (e.g., hydraulic, mas A 0.7
Hudspeth, Inc. Englewood Remediation and clean up of A 0.7
Enersys\ABSL Longmont Batteries, storage, manufact A 0.7
4606 Denver Henderson Lessors of non-residential b A 0.7
Online Books Warehouse Denver Thrift shops, used merchandi A 0.7
Location 16001 Aurora Automated data processing se C 0.7
Sw-20730025-Fo Den - Denver, Co Denver Transportation Air Carriers A 0.7
Patriot Well Solutions LLC. Denver Well servicing, oil and gas A 0.7
Ams, Hq Littleton Meteorologic tracking system A 0.7
Denver - 350 Centennial Security alarm systems sales A 0.7
Willow Creek Electric, LLC Grand Junction Electrical work A 0.7
USA CO Aurora Aurora Plumbing and heating contrac A 0.7
2073-SW-20730025-FO Denver Transportation Air Carriers 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.