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 67 of 180| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brighton Store | Brighton | Thrift shops, used merchandi | D | 5.8 |
| Commerce City | Commerce City | Disinfectants, household-typ | D | 5.8 |
| Prime Packing | Center | Produce, fresh, merchant who | F | 5.8 |
| SC - South Colorado Springs | Colorado Springs | Grocery stores | D | 5.8 |
| Arvada Service Center-160 | Arvada | Electric Power Distribution | F | 5.8 |
| 9277-101 Lodge at Vail | Vail | Alpine skiing facilities wit | D | 5.8 |
| 9277-140 Summer-Vail | Vail | Alpine skiing facilities wit | D | 5.8 |
| Kleen-Tech Services, LLC / Boulder | Denver | Building cleaning services, | D | 5.8 |
| 6458-ZWDV | Denver | Local Messengers and Local D | D | 5.8 |
| 4192-00051484-80 | Colorado Springs | Lumber & Construction Materi | F | 5.8 |
| Rampart Supply, Inc. (Denver) | Denver | Boilers (e.g., heating, hot | F | 5.8 |
| 813010000 | Durango | Transportation Air Cargo | C | 5.8 |
| Sodexo at Western State Colorado Univers | Gunnison | Food Service Contractors | D | 5.8 |
| At Home Stores #83 | Broomfield | Housewares stores | D | 5.8 |
| Pueblo Electrics Inc | Pueblo | Electrical contractors | F | 5.8 |
| Wm 5003 | Pagosa Springs | - | D | 5.8 |
| West Star Aviation / Grand Junction | Grand Junction | Aircraft maintenance and rep | D | 5.8 |
| Echter's | Arvada | Garden centers | D | 5.8 |
| Courtyard By Marriott | Westminster | Hotels (except casino hotels | D | 5.8 |
| Arens Electric, Inc | Englewood | Electric contracting | F | 5.8 |
| Ace Express Coaches | Golden | Charter bus services (except | D | 5.8 |
| Eaton Sales and Service | Denver | Water tanks, heavy gauge met | D | 5.8 |
| FRWC Grand Junction | Grand Junction | Footing and foundation concr | F | 5.8 |
| Grand Junction_1441416 | Grand Junction | Mail and Parcel Delivery | D | 5.8 |
| Alpine Roofing LTD. | Denver | Roofing contractors | F | 5.8 |
| Welby Westwood | Arvada | Bedding plant growing (excep | D | 5.8 |
| QuantumClean-Colorado Springs | Colorado Springs | Etching metals and metal pro | D | 5.8 |
| VillaSport - CO | Colorado Springs | Health club facilities, phys | D | 5.8 |
| Ft. Collins Store | Ft. Collins | Thrift shops, used merchandi | D | 5.8 |
| East Warehouse | Denver | Thrift shops, used merchandi | D | 5.8 |
| Hi-Tech Electric, Inc. | Centennial | Low voltage electrical work | F | 5.8 |
| Westminster Pub Sch | Westminster | - | D | 5.8 |
| Cos Cos | Colorado Springs | - | D | 5.8 |
| 761800000 Denver | Denver | Food Services | D | 5.8 |
| Discover Goodwill of Southern and Western Colorado- Fountain Retail | Fountain | Florists | D | 5.8 |
| Swy-0005-0005-01480 Fac-01480-Highlands Ranch-Co | Highlands Ranch | Supermarkets and Other Groce | D | 5.8 |
| Edge Construction Specialties | Lakewood | Cabinetry work performed at | F | 5.8 |
| CO Loveland AWW | Loveland | Preserving purchased wood an | D | 5.8 |
| Longmont Regent | Longmont | Assisted-living facilities w | D | 5.8 |
| 4535-1527 | Durango | Retail/Home Furnishings | D | 5.8 |
| 6400-Swy 0031 1863 | Delta | Supermarkets and Other Groce | D | 5.8 |
| Progro Partners-Colorado | Littleton | Flowers merchant wholesalers | F | 5.8 |
| Grand Junction Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites | Grand Junction | Hotels (except casino hotels | D | 5.8 |
| Moosh Inc. DBA Air Systems Inc | Englewood | Sheet metal duct work instal | F | 5.8 |
| 44 Durango | Durango | - | D | 5.7 |
| Galiso Incorporated | Montrose | Consumption meters (e.g., ga | D | 5.7 |
| 1874 Lowe S of Longmont Co | Longmont | Homecenter | D | 5.7 |
| Cogitic Corporation | Colorado Springs | Military insignia, metal, ma | D | 5.7 |
| The Hain Celestial Group, Inc. | Boulder | Instant tea manufacturing | D | 5.7 |
| 2039-Event Services | Denver | Sports Clubs, Managers, and | D | 5.7 |
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.