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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
Noffsinger Manufacturing Greeley Bale throwers manufacturing D 5.7
Roof Check INC Longmont Roofing contractors F 5.7
Discover Goodwill of Southern and Western Colorado - AFA Dorms/Basewide Colorado Springs Building cleaning services, D 5.7
Producers Livestock Marketing Association - Greeley Branch Greeley Cattle merchant wholesalers F 5.7
Loveland Co Sales Center Loveland Private warehousing and stor C 5.7
3805 Woodland Park Warehouse Clubs and Supercen D 5.7
5232 Rifle Warehouse Clubs and Supercen D 5.7
1178 - Timnath Co Whse Timnath Warehouse clubs (i.e., food D 5.7
Penrose Hospital Colorado Springs General medical and surgical B 5.7
4054-Abs 0004 0841 Aurora Supermarkets and Other Groce D 5.7
La-Z-Boy Furniture Galleries of Colorado Springs Colorado Springs Furniture stores (e.g., hous D 5.7
1509 Greenwood Village Greenwood Village Home Centers D 5.7
Phillips Plumbing and Mechanical Berthoud Process piping installation F 5.7
2807-0102 Aurora Homecenter D 5.7
4054-ABS-0005-0004-02812 Louisville Supermarkets and Other Groce D 5.7
2073-SW-20730091-CS Gypsum Transportation Air Carriers D 5.7
6400-Swy 0005 0137 Aurora Supermarkets and Other Groce D 5.7
Unit # 2907 Aurora Retail D 5.7
Builders Enterprises LLC Aurora Trusses, wood roof or floor, D 5.7
Golden Nugget Cripple Creek Cripple Creek Hotels, casino D 5.7
Swy-0005-0005-01998 Fac-01998-Arvada-Co Arvada Supermarkets and Other Groce D 5.7
Urban Air Aurora Aurora Gocart tracks (i.e., amuseme D 5.7
CO - Fort Collins, 1201 University Ave Fort Collins Cable and Other Subscription F 5.7
Downtown Family Center Colorado Springs Social organizations, civic F 5.7
Swy-0005-0005-02816 Fac-02816-Colorado Springs-Co Colorado Springs Supermarkets and Other Groce D 5.7
Central Transport - 802 Denver General Freight Trucking, Lo D 5.7
EZ Excavating Frederick Storm sewer construction F 5.7
3128 Denver Supermarkets and Other Groce D 5.7
Campbell Beard Roofing, Inc. Denver Roofing contractors F 5.7
4186-03946 Grand Junction Dollar Stores D 5.7
Q Ranch, LLC Wiggins Dairy heifer replacement pro D 5.7
Denver Zoological Foundation Denver Zoos D 5.7
Eagle Rock - Colorado Springs Colorado Springs Beverages, alcoholic (except F 5.7
2253-H4665 Denver General Medical and Surgical D 5.7
9277-100 Vail Mtn Vail Alpine skiing facilities wit D 5.7
Metal Castings of Colorado, Inc. Loveland Bronze foundries (except die D 5.7
Bandimere Speedway Morrison Automobile racetracks D 5.7
Grand Junction CO Truss Grand Junction Engineered Wood Member Manuf D 5.7
30 Den Denver General merchandise, durable F 5.7
CS Wind America Inc Pueblo Fabricated structural metal D 5.7
345 - Thornton Thornton - D 5.7
071809-Cos-Cheyenne Mt Sta Colorado Springs Mail and Parcel Delivery D 5.7
Goodwill of Colorado Golden Golden Apparel stores, used clothin D 5.7
6400-Swy 0005 1615 Boulder Supermarkets and Other Groce D 5.7
Layne Christensen 7915 Cherrywood Loop Kiowa Construction management, wat F 5.7
High Five Home Care LLC, DBA Talem Home Care Denver Home care of elderly, medica C 5.7
Molecular Products - Louisville Lousville Activated carbon or charcoal D 5.7
Wellsprings at Louisville Limited Partner Louisville Assisted-living facilities w D 5.7
Araco Concrete Contractor LLC Colorado Springs Chimney, concrete, construct F 5.7
CO - Denver South Englewood Landscape care and maintenan D 5.7
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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.