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.
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.
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
Page 159 of 180| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Goodwill Industries of Denver - Mainstreet | Parker | Appliance stores, household- | A | 0.2 |
| Denver Corporate Office | Denver | Dried foods (e.g., fruits, m | A | 0.2 |
| Trimble Inc Westminster | Westminster | Systems integration design s | A | 0.2 |
| Denver Office | Englewood | Antennas, satellite, manufac | A | 0.2 |
| 5800 S Quebec St | Greenwood Village | - | A | 0.2 |
| 199-Denver HQ | Denver | HDQ Office and Sales | A | 0.2 |
| 12867 | Greenwood Village | - | A | 0.2 |
| Lockheed Martin Corporation US CO Colorado Spgs Federal Dr (1617) | Colorado Springs | - | A | 0.2 |
| Ghxhq-100-Ghx-Us Louisville | Louisville | SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY | A | 0.2 |
| Goodwill Industries of Denver - Iliff | Aurora | Apparel stores, used clothin | A | 0.2 |
| CHI Denver Corporate Office | Englewood | District and regional office | A | 0.2 |
| Castillo Drywall LLC | Denver | Drywall contractors | A | 0.2 |
| Lockheed Martin Corporation Colorado Springs (1617) | Colorado Springs | - | A | 0.2 |
| 16015 | Englewood | - | A | 0.2 |
| BAH | Broomfield | Aeronautical systems and ins | A | 0.1 |
| Blue Canyon Technologies - Crescent, LLC | Lafayette | - | A | 0.1 |
| Pueblo Chemical Plant | Pueblo | Industrial building (except | A | 0.1 |
| Wood Group USA Inc., Front Range Service Area | Longmont | Construction management, oil | A | 0.1 |
| Corporate | Denver | - | A | 0.1 |
| Rev Energy Services LLC | Denver | Hydraulic fracturing wells o | A | 0.1 |
| AZ-CO | Boulder | Agar culture media manufactu | A | 0.1 |
| US383 - C: Aurora CMC | Aurora | Centralized administrative o | A | 0.1 |
| Lockheed Martin Corporation Boulder Campus (1006) | Boulder | - | A | 0.1 |
| Prologis - Denver Office | Denver | Lessors of nonresidential bu | A | 0.1 |
| CO004 | Englewood | Aircraft manufacturing | A | 0.1 |
| Starz Entertainment- Denver | Englewood | Cable broadcasting networks | A | 0.1 |
| 1201 Building | Denver | Professional sports (e.g., g | A | 0.1 |
| Antero Resources DENVER | Denver | Natural gas production | A | 0.1 |
| CAP Colorado Springs, CO | Colorado Springs | Translation and Interpretati | A | 0.1 |
| Corporate - DENVER | Denver | Petroleum, crude, production | A | 0.1 |
| 16004 | Centennial | - | A | 0.1 |
| 16245 | Centennial | - | A | 0.1 |
| The Weitz Company - Rocky Mountain Office | Denver | Commercial building construc | A | 0.1 |
| CO_Greenwood Village_6175 S Willow Dr_21111001 | Greenwood Village | wired telecommunication carr | A | 0.1 |
| Denver Area Office | Denver | Natural gas production | A | 0.1 |
| Larimer | Denver | Corporate, Subsidiary, and R | A | 0.1 |
| 7250 South Havana Street | Centennial | - | A | 0.1 |
| Cooling Tower Depot | Golden | Cooling towers manufacturing | A | 0.1 |
| AHQ | Broomfield | Aeronautical systems and ins | A | 0.1 |
| COSJFUCO | Lone Tree | Wired Telecommunications Car | A | 0.1 |
| Teledyne Mountain View | Mountain View | Tubes, electronic, manufactu | A | 0.1 |
| Otter Products - Head Quarters | Fort Collins | Utility containers (e.g., ba | A | 0.1 |
| Energy Inspection Services, LLC | Bayfield | Petroleum engineering servic | A | 0.1 |
| Willow Creek Companies, LLC | Grand Junction | Construction management, oil | A | 0.1 |
| Campos Epc LLC | Denver | Construction engineering ser | A | 0.1 |
| Hilltop Health Services Corporation- 3325 North Townsend | Montrose | Boys' and girls' residential | A | 0.1 |
| ULA-Denver | Englewood | Guided missile and space veh | A | 0.1 |
| CO20 | Westminster | Airborne radio communication | A | 0.1 |
| Broomfield | Broomfield | Fitness centers | A | 0.1 |
| CoorsTek Headquarters | Golden | Electrical supplies, ceramic | A | 0.1 |
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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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.
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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.