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
Chem Demil US CO Pueblo CO CO996 Pueblo - A 0.3
Crossfire Durango Compressor, metering and pum A 0.3
84 Inverness Circle East Englewood - A 0.3
Sodexo at Western Colorado University Gunnison Food Service Contractors A 0.2
Lockheed Martin Corporation US CO Schriever AFB Irwin Ave (1445) Schriever Afb Engineering services A 0.2
Strive Health Denver Medical care management serv A 0.2
Grand Junction, Colorado, Site Grand Junction Environmental remediation se A 0.2
Westcom Synnex Louisville Computer peripheral equipmen A 0.2
Cable Networks : Denver Broadcast Operations Centennial Cable and other subscription A 0.2
16005 Centennial - A 0.2
KROENKE SPORTS HOLDINGS LLC - 1201 Building Denver Sports event organizers with A 0.2
7102103 FPL Neptune Pueblo Power and Communication Line A 0.2
UFP Lafayeytte, LLC Lafayette Roof trusses, wood, manufact A 0.2
RMC Englewood Search, Detection, Navigatio A 0.2
US Nursing Corporation - Corporate Office Greenwood Village Help supply services A 0.2
Central Rockies Watkins Crude Petroleum and Natural A 0.2
Lincoln Electric Automation Fort Collins Fort Collins Welding equipment manufactur A 0.2
MMR Constructors, Inc. - Colorado Operations Centennial Electrical contractors A 0.2
CO-Loveland Loveland Digital test equipment (e.g. A 0.2
MDC Holdings Inc Denver Single Family Detached New H A 0.2
4450 E. Fountain Blvd., Colorado Springs Colorado Springs Space vehicle guidance syste A 0.2
UDR, Inc. (Denver Office) Highlands Ranch Lessors of residential build A 0.2
Bighorn Solar 1 Pueblo Commercial building construc A 0.2
9401 E Panorama Cir Centennial - A 0.2
3510-35100001-6218 Highlands Ranch Other Electronic Parts and E A 0.2
MasterTech Services Golden Air-conditioning and warm ai A 0.2
Cortez Cortez Pavement, highway, road, str A 0.2
Luce Research LLC Colorado Springs Public opinion polling servi A 0.2
CO.BOULD.17 - Ricoh Usa, Inc Boulder Office Equipment A 0.2
LCC Lafayette Aeronautical systems and ins A 0.2
345 Inverness Dr S Ste 300 Englewood - A 0.2
Corporate Meridian Englewood Centralized administrative o A 0.2
Raytheon_Buckley_CO Aurora - A 0.2
Lightsource bp - Denver Office Denver Solar farms A 0.2
Casey Industrial Corp. Louisville Substation and switching sta A 0.2
Corporate Headquarters Westminster Corporate offices A 0.2
Zimmerbiomet Spine Westminster Bone plates and screws manuf A 0.2
Raytheon_Aurora_CO Aurora - A 0.2
Lockheed Martin Corporation US CO Boulder Spine Rd (1006) Boulder CAE (computer-aided engineer A 0.2
ZAP Engineering and Construction Services, Inc Lakewood Engineering consulting servi A 0.2
CoorsTek Bioceramics Grand Junction Dispensing and measuring pum A 0.2
Denver, CO HVAC Littleton - A 0.2
Bsc - 9011 Englewood - A 0.2
Nurse-Family Partnership Denver Child welfare services A 0.2
Forgen, LLC Centennial Environmental remediation se A 0.2
ConMed Corp. - Greenwood Village, CO Greenwood Village Surgical knife blades and ha A 0.2
Total Directional Services Windsor Drilling directional oil and A 0.2
Location 16005 Fort Collins Automated data processing se A 0.2
CO002 Colorado Springs Aircraft manufacturing A 0.2
826 Louisville Diagnostic equipment, electr A 0.2
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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.