State profile · OSHA ITA

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
Brannan Main Office's Denver Oil field road construction A 0.6
Keesen Landscape Management, Broomfield Broomfield Landscape care and maintenan A 0.6
CFC Golden Cooperative apartment, const A 0.6
Colorado Support Office Highlands Ranch Building materials supply de A 0.6
Fleet Southern RMX Colorado Springs Ready-Mix A 0.6
Lockheed Martin Corporation Waterton Campus (1004) Littleton Developing and producing pro A 0.6
Advance Tank and Construction LLC Wellington Water tanks, heavy gauge met A 0.6
Paragon 28 Englewood Surgical implants manufactur A 0.6
Western Region Sales Office Englewood Corporate offices C 0.6
Platteville Office Platteville Petroleum, crude, production A 0.6
Wolf Robotics, LLC Fort Collins Welding equipment manufactur A 0.6
Power Product Services, Inc. Aurora Telecommunications equipment A 0.6
Carrasco Kube Cabral Cement Contractors, Inc. Denver Masonry contractors A 0.6
Boost - Field Sales Englewood Telecommunications carriers, C 0.6
RK Electrical, LLC Denver Electrical, electrical wirin A 0.6
Colorado Springs Independence Colorado Springs HEALTHCARE A 0.6
DEMA Plumbing LLC Centernnial Plumbers A 0.6
EFI Polymers Denver Custom compounding (i.e., bl A 0.6
Caerus Operating LLC Denver Natural gas production A 0.6
JM Corporate Headquarters Denver Corporate, Subsidiary, and R C 0.6
Main Office Lone Tree Medical equipment merchant w A 0.6
Civitas Resources Denver Petroleum, crude, production A 0.6
Sodexo at St Anthonys Hospfood Lakewood Food Service Contractors A 0.6
BrandSafway Solutions LLC - Denver CO Branch Commerce City Specialty Trade Contractor A 0.6
Meridian Fire and Security, LLC Centennial Low voltage electrical work A 0.6
3801 E. 50th Street Denver CO Denver - A 0.6
Colorado Operations Aurora Highway construction A 0.6
49751p - Colorado Springs Dc Colorado Springs Confectionery Merchant Whole A 0.6
Spectranetics Colorado Springs Catheters manufacturing A 0.6
Murphy Company (Colorado) Thornton Mechanical contractors A 0.6
Boulder Campus Boulder Navigational instruments man A 0.6
Denver CO Branch Littleton Plumbing and heating contrac A 0.6
Colorado Springs WECO Colorado Springs Commercial and industrial ma A 0.6
ADA-ES, Inc. Highlands Ranch Absorbers, gas, heavy gauge A 0.6
Monks Construction Colorado Springs Construction management, dam A 0.5
Murray Warehouse, Colorado Springs Colorado Springs Space vehicle guidance syste A 0.5
Sierra Chemicals LC Rifle Building cleaning services, A 0.5
Corp-Denver Denver Lumber Plywood Millwork and A 0.5
Tundra Restaurant Supply, LLC Boulder Agents and brokers, durable A 0.5
Rifle Rifle Lintels, concrete, manufactu A 0.5
MechOne, Inc. Colorado Springs Air vent installation A 0.5
PUBLCOOC - AT&T Mobility Services LLC Pueblo Wireless Telecommunications B 0.5
CO-Colorado Springs Colorado Springs Digital test equipment (e.g. A 0.5
Denver Regional Office Denver Agencies, real estate A 0.5
AMSR Centennial Medical case management serv A 0.5
Canyon Construction Company Durango Construction management, wat A 0.5
Altitude Sports & Entertainment LLC Centennial Broadcasting stations, telev B 0.5
Christian Living Communities Corporate Office Englewood Administrative management se A 0.5
Midway Plant Littleton Offset printing (except book A 0.5
RockSol Thornton Engineering services C 0.5
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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.