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 50 of 180| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pmdco, LLC | Denver | Diagnostic imaging centers ( | D | 7.1 |
| Columbine Manor Care Center | Salida | Skilled nursing facilities | C | 7.1 |
| BTC West Fort Morgan Terminal | Fort Morgan | Trucking, specialized freigh | D | 7.1 |
| Sodexo at Univ of Den-Centennial Halls | Denver | Food Service Contractors | F | 7.1 |
| 1199 | Avon | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | F | 7.1 |
| DeFalco Construction Company | Longmont | Distribution line, sewer and | F | 7.1 |
| Ulster Street Apartments | Denver | Commercial building construc | F | 7.1 |
| NurseCore of Denver | Denver | Healthcare | D | 7.1 |
| 3803 | Denver | Couriers and express deliver | C | 7.1 |
| Wodek Systems, Inc. | Henderson | Forest products trucking, lo | D | 7.1 |
| Brookdale Greenwood Village | Greenwood Village | Assisted-living facilities w | D | 7.1 |
| Wm 4288 | Broomfield | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | F | 7.1 |
| 4x4 Concrete Forming, Inc. | Sedalia | Footing and foundation concr | F | 7.1 |
| Frontier Airlines - Orlando Base | Denver | Scheduled air passenger tran | D | 7.1 |
| Greeley Store | Greeley | Thrift shops, used merchandi | F | 7.1 |
| Alamosa | Alamosa | Soft Drink Manufacturing | F | 7.1 |
| COS003 | Colorado Springs | Tire Dealers | F | 7.1 |
| 620-00134 | Colorado Springs | Supermarkets and Other Groce | F | 7.1 |
| 2807-0340 | Arvada | Homecenter | F | 7.1 |
| 4816 | Aurora | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | F | 7.1 |
| 4054-Abs 0004 0899 | Aurora | Supermarkets and Other Groce | F | 7.1 |
| Holyoke Main & Reimer Elev/C-Store | Holyoke | Grain and Field Bean Merchan | F | 7.1 |
| Vista Mesa Assisted Living | Cortez | Retirement homes with nursin | C | 7.1 |
| Discover Goodwill of Southern & Western CO- Pueblo | Pueblo | Used merchandise stores | F | 7.1 |
| DC 13 - Denver | Denver | Automotive Parts | D | 7.1 |
| IPG - Littleton | Littleton | Other Concrete Product Manuf | F | 7.1 |
| Burnco Milliken | Milliken | Concrete batch plants (inclu | F | 7.1 |
| Longmont United Hospital | Longmont | General medical and surgical | C | 7.1 |
| Good Samaritan-Fort Collins Village | Fort Collins | Nursing homes | C | 7.1 |
| Brookdale Bear Creek | Colorado Springs | Assisted-living facilities w | D | 7.1 |
| 1055 S Jason St | Denver | Mattresses (i.e., box spring | F | 7.1 |
| COD006 | Aurora | Tire Dealers | F | 7.1 |
| Fulton | Centennial | Medical equipment merchant w | F | 7.1 |
| Amazon.com Services LLC - DDE6 | Denver | Couriers and Express Deliver | C | 7.1 |
| Goodwill of Colorado-Greeley | Greeley | Used merchandise stores | F | 7.1 |
| Consolidated Electrical Distributors (Pc1872) | Denver | Electric motors, wiring supp | F | 7.1 |
| 6400-SWY-0005-0005-01446 | Parker | Supermarkets and Other Groce | F | 7.1 |
| Schomp Automotive | Highlands Ranch | Automobile dealers, new only | F | 7.1 |
| Hyland Hills Senior Living | Westminster | Assisted-living facilities w | D | 7.1 |
| 10331 Colorado Blvd (WO) | Glendale | - | F | 7.1 |
| Brookdale Fort Collins Dementia Care | Fort Collins | Assisted-living facilities w | D | 7.1 |
| 455 - Denver | Denver | Insulation materials (except | F | 7.1 |
| NDV | Westminster | home health care | D | 7.1 |
| 6400-Swy 0005 1681 | Alamosa | Supermarkets and Other Groce | F | 7.1 |
| Dairy Engineering Company | Arvada | Food-processing machinery an | F | 7.1 |
| 1535 Evergreen | Evergreen | Home Centers | F | 7.1 |
| Done Service Group | Aurora | Heating contractors | F | 7.1 |
| North America : Denver | Denver | Home Centers | F | 7.1 |
| Fort Collins Co Depot | Fort Collins | Commercial Bakeries | F | 7.1 |
| Academy at Mapleton Hill | Englewood | Addition, alteration and ren | F | 7.1 |
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.