TCR, interpreted
Far above average
6.0 avg TCR
State profile · OSHA ITA
Colorado workplace safety
How 9,007 OSHA-reporting employers across Colorado compare on workplace injuries, 2016–2024. Average TCR uses the 7,977 establishments with a credible rate (see methodology).
- 9,007
- Employers
- 6.0
- Avg TCR (rated)
- 167,278
- Injuries (all)
- 94
- Fatalities (all)
Colorado vs all states by OSHA-reporting employer count
Where this state's ITA establishment inventory sits among every tracked state and territory (coverage signal, not a safety ranking)
9,007 21st of 54 higher than 33 of 54 states
States and territories, banded by OSHA ITA reporting employer count
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Source official public datasets · 2026
The state picture
Colorado's 7,977 rated 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 · rated subset
- 7,977
- rated employers
- 9,007
- all reporting employers
- 167,278
- recordable injuries (all)
Inventory counts and injury/fatality totals cover all 9,007 ITA establishments; the average TCR excludes zero-rate and corrupt-hours filings. See Methodology → Three Populations.
A · 12% B · 10% C · 25% D · 23% F · 30%
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.
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A second cut tells a different story: ranked by rated-subset injury rate alone, Colorado is #43 of 54. Ranked instead by fatalities per rated employer establishment (same 7,977-employer subset), it's #11 of 54, a 32-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 on the same population 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. The published state average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 6.0 injuries per 100 full-time workers uses the 7,977 establishments with a credible rate (zero-rate and corrupt-hours filings stay in the inventory counts above but are excluded from the average, see methodology).
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 18 of 180| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ski School (Adults) - Beaver Creek | Avon | Ski resorts without accommod | F | 11.8 |
| Hotel Teatro | Denver | Hotels (except casino hotels | F | 11.8 |
| 6400-SWY-0005-0005-01975 | Fountain | Supermarkets and Other Groce | F | 11.8 |
| 072350-Den-Thornton Br | Denver | Mail and Parcel Delivery | F | 11.8 |
| Sixt Rent A Car - San Diego International Airport 42436 | San Diego | Car rental | F | 11.8 |
| S03220 - WM of Northern Colorado - Estes Park | Estes Park | - | F | 11.8 |
| Goodwill of Colorado - Lake Arbor | Arvada | Apparel stores, used clothin | F | 11.8 |
| AZZ Galvanizing - Denver | Commerce City | Hot dip galvanizing metals a | F | 11.8 |
| Wagner's, LLC - Flagler | Flagler | General merchandise, nondura | F | 11.8 |
| 4535-1115 | Littleton | Retail/Home Furnishings | F | 11.8 |
| GLENDALE_1440283 | Denver | Mail and Parcel Delivery | F | 11.8 |
| Cocan - Canon City Center | Canon City | Couriers and Express Deliver | D | 11.8 |
| Discover Goodwill of Southern and Western Colorado- Your Life Your Way | Colorado Springs | Companion services for disab | F | 11.8 |
| PTL Concrete, Inc. | Colorado Springs | Chimney, concrete, construct | F | 11.8 |
| 2288-0884 | Durango | Structural Pest Control | F | 11.8 |
| Hyatt Regency Aurora Conference Center | Aurora | Hotels (except casino hotels | F | 11.8 |
| Eastwood PHE LLC | Lakewood | Heating, ventilation and air | F | 11.8 |
| SOUTHWASTE EMPLOYMENT- National Western | Denver | 484220 Specialized Freight ( | F | 11.8 |
| Lakeview Commons | Loveland | Assisted-living facilities w | F | 11.8 |
| 4021-680816100 | Morrison | Food Services | F | 11.8 |
| Northglenn Store | Northglenn | Thrift shops, used merchandi | F | 11.8 |
| Werner Enterprises/HENCOTerminal | Henderson | Other Support Activities for | F | 11.8 |
| North Pecos_1375398 | Denver | Mail and Parcel Delivery | F | 11.8 |
| CMS of Colorado Springs, Inc. | Colorado Springs | Industrial building (except | F | 11.8 |
| PODS Aurora, CO | Aurora | General warehousing and stor | F | 11.8 |
| 241 Racquette Dr. | Fort Collins | Plumbing contractors | F | 11.7 |
| COD005 | Lakewood | Tire Dealers | F | 11.7 |
| 1387 - Aurora Co (Wet) Depot | Aurora | Refrigerated Warehousing & S | F | 11.7 |
| 4054-ABS-0005-0004-00840 | Colorado Springs | Supermarkets and Other Groce | F | 11.7 |
| 9282-520039 | Denver | Frozen Food and Freezer Meal | F | 11.7 |
| QCDRM - Denver | Aurora | Groceries, general-line, mer | F | 11.7 |
| COD014 | Littleton | Tire Dealers | F | 11.7 |
| H4853 Kh Aurora | Aurora | Specialty except Psychiatri | F | 11.7 |
| LaPLata Electric Assn. | Pagosa Springs | Distribution of electric pow | F | 11.7 |
| 4054-ABS-0005-0004-00885 | Denver | Supermarkets and Other Groce | F | 11.7 |
| CO_Aurora_19900 | Aurora | General Freight Trucking, Lo | F | 11.7 |
| 6458-ZKRM | Kremmling | Local Messengers and Local D | F | 11.7 |
| 138731 | Fort Collins | Landscaping Services | F | 11.7 |
| Bel Shower Door | Englewood | Glass stores | F | 11.7 |
| Brookside Inn | Castle Rock | Skilled nursing facilities | D | 11.7 |
| 4987 | Longmont | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | F | 11.7 |
| North Academy Store | Colorado Springs | Thrift shops, used merchandi | F | 11.7 |
| Goodwill of Colorado-Simms | Littleton | Used merchandise stores | F | 11.7 |
| Brothers Redevelopment Inc | Edgewater | Apartment managers' offices | F | 11.7 |
| D & A Enterprises Inc. | Ft. Collins | Fire and water damage restor | F | 11.6 |
| Airpark | Fort Collins | Millwork, custom architectur | F | 11.6 |
| ArborForce | Englewood | Tree services (e.g., bracing | F | 11.6 |
| The Caisson Company | Colorado Springs | Foundation, building, poured | F | 11.6 |
| Performance Plumbing & Heating, Inc. | Littleton | Plumbing and heating contrac | F | 11.6 |
| 309 Colorado springs | Colorado Springs | Retail | F | 11.6 |
Nationwide states with similar injury rates or employer scale
Two PlainSafetyScore-derived peer sets for Colorado: nearest states and territories by rated-subset average Total Case Rate and by OSHA-reporting employer inventory. These are cross-state neighborhoods, not the employer list above.
Similar average TCR
Nearest states by rated-subset Total Case Rate (6.0 here).
Similar employer inventory
Nearest states by reporting employer count (9,007 here).
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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainSafetyScore
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.