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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
Colorado Springs CO Millwork Colorado Springs Other Millwork F 6.7
Waner Construction Company, Inc. Highlands Ranch Commercial building construc F 6.7
371 Colorado Springs Drywall and Insulation Contr F 6.7
The Villas At Sunny Acres Skilled Nursing Thornton Convalescent homes or conval C 6.7
Rocky Mountain Trees & Landscaping Inc Crested Butte Landscaping services (except D 6.7
4054-ABS-0005-0004-03836 Denver Supermarkets and Other Groce D 6.7
Lakewood Estates Lakewood Assisted-living facilities w D 6.7
163-Hyatt Regency Denver Tech Center Denver Hotels (except casino hotels F 6.7
Brikor Associates Inc Basalt Residential construction, si D 6.7
LeafGuard of Denver Denver Gutters, seamless roof, form F 6.7
Environment Control 439 Colorado Springs Building cleaning services, D 6.7
1542 Canon City Canon City Home Centers D 6.7
Lighthouse Transportation Group LLC Westminster Electrical contractors F 6.7
0090 - Dv Denver Home Health Care D 6.7
Vestas Nacelles America, Inc. Brighton Wind turbines (i.e., windmil F 6.7
GJT Grand Junction General Freight Trucking D 6.7
Destination Residences Snowmass Snowmass Village - F 6.7
Juniper Denver Mental health facilities, re D 6.7
Colorado Blood Cancer Institute Denver Infusion therapy centers and D 6.7
EAP Glass Golden Curtain wall, glass, install F 6.7
Windsor Hardware LLC Windsor Hardware stores D 6.7
Discover Goodwill of Southern and Western Colorado- Ability One Laundry Colorado Springs Agents, laundry and dryclean F 6.7
CBA Construction, Inc. Centennial Industrial building (except F 6.7
Big Lots Store #4133 AURORA, CO Aurora Retail Other D 6.7
4186-04796 Aurora All Other General Merchandis D 6.7
4021-610853400 Denver Food Services F 6.7
Ice O Matic Denver Ice making machinery manufac F 6.7
002 TRC EagleRidge Lodge Steamboat Springs Hospitality F 6.7
Central Plains Equipment Burlington Burlington Agricultural implements merc F 6.7
7175_16268 Denver - F 6.7
Den United Ground Express-Den Denver Other Airport Operations D 6.7
Shalom Park Aurora Nursing homes C 6.7
Osypka Medtec Inc. Longmont Instruments, mechanical micr F 6.7
Colorado Boring Co., LLC Fort Collins Construction management, tun F 6.7
869 Alamosa Warehouse Clubs and Supercen D 6.7
Food Bank for Larimer County Fort Collins Fort Collins Food banks D 6.7
Englewood (Compark 62) Englewood Furniture stores (e.g., hous D 6.7
10470 Frisco Frisco - D 6.7
Sodexo at Park Hill Master Campus Denver Janitorial Services D 6.7
Traffic Control Specialists Grand Junction Flagging (i.e., traffic cont F 6.7
4186-08528 Aurora Dollar Stores D 6.7
Watson Hopper Delta Derricks, oil and gas field- F 6.7
815060003 Grand Junction Transportation Air Cargo C 6.7
The Navigators Colorado Springs Religious organizations F 6.6
SECURITY_1381131 Colorado Springs Mail and Parcel Delivery D 6.6
HGI Colorado Springs Colorado Springs - F 6.6
Swire Coca-Cola of Colorado Springs Colorado Springs Soft Drink Manufacturing F 6.6
Cannabis Care Wellness Center LLC dba Smokey's Garden City Medicinal chemicals, uncompo F 6.6
CTC Site Louisville Corn chips and related corn D 6.6
American Mechanical Services of Colorado Springs, LLC Colorado Springs Heating, ventilation and air F 6.6
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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.