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 76 of 180| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 620-00101 | Thornton | Supermarkets and Other Groce | D | 5.2 |
| 2403 | Denver | Automotive Dealers | D | 5.2 |
| B&E - Breckenridge | Breckenridge | - | D | 5.2 |
| Norfolk Iron and Metal - Colorado | Greeley | Steel merchant wholesalers | F | 5.2 |
| 2807-1989 | Westminster | Homecenter | D | 5.2 |
| 1045 | Lafayette | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | D | 5.2 |
| Envirotech Services, Inc. - Evans, CO | Evans | Deicing preparations manufac | D | 5.2 |
| 6400-Swy 0005 0244 | Denver | Supermarkets and Other Groce | D | 5.2 |
| NM Industrial Services | Denver | Mechanical contractors | D | 5.2 |
| Outpatient Rehabilitation at the YMCA | Pueblo | Outpatient Clinic Providing | D | 5.2 |
| Courtyard Golden | Golden | Hotel management services (i | D | 5.2 |
| CAST Transportation - Corporate | Henderson | Flatbed trucking, local | C | 5.2 |
| 620-00001 | Denver | Supermarkets and Other Groce | D | 5.2 |
| Double R Excavating, Inc. | Kiowa | Excavation contractors | D | 5.2 |
| Company Office | Denver | Utility line (i.e., sewer, w | D | 5.2 |
| 6340-QED-8 | Loveland | Electrical Apparatus and Equ | F | 5.2 |
| 007k - Denver Co Rntl | Denver | Industrial Launderers | F | 5.2 |
| B11 | Aurora | Wholesale Distribution of Me | F | 5.2 |
| 620-00073 | Fort Collins | Supermarkets and Other Groce | D | 5.2 |
| TK Elevator Denver Airport | Denver | Elevator installation conve | D | 5.2 |
| Pate Construction Company , Inc | Pueblo West | Utility Contractor | D | 5.2 |
| Life Care Center of Longmont | Longmont | Skilled nursing facilities | B | 5.2 |
| Nexion | Aurora | Group homes for the disabled | B | 5.2 |
| Rampart Supply, Inc. (Pueblo) | Pueblo | Boilers (e.g., heating, hot | F | 5.2 |
| White Star Electric, LLC | Grand Junction | Electrical, electrical wirin | D | 5.2 |
| Colorado Doorways, Inc. | Denver | Lumber (e.g., dressed, finis | F | 5.2 |
| MCG LLC dba Reserve 1 | Glendale | Biologicals and allied produ | F | 5.2 |
| Frontier Airlines - Chicago Base | Denver | Scheduled air passenger carr | C | 5.2 |
| 5100 - CO Pueblo County Detention Center | Pueblo | Medical care management serv | D | 5.2 |
| Memorial Hospital Central | Colorado Springs, Co | General medical and surgical | B | 5.2 |
| Unit #2320 | Littleton | Retail | D | 5.2 |
| 6060 | Colorado Springs | - | D | 5.2 |
| Grand Junction CO Yard | Grand Junction | Other Building Material Deal | D | 5.2 |
| Pagosa Springs | Pagosa Springs | Hotels and Motels | D | 5.2 |
| 10083 Pearl | Boulder | - | D | 5.2 |
| Leevers Locavore | Denver | Grocery stores | D | 5.2 |
| Denver Linen | Denver | Linen Supply | F | 5.2 |
| MCR Denver South Tenant LLC | Englewood | Hotels (except casino hotels | D | 5.2 |
| 962 | Trinidad | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | D | 5.2 |
| Basalite Concrete Denver Plant | Denver | Architectural block, concret | D | 5.2 |
| 4054-Abs 0004 2812 | Louisville | Supermarkets and Other Groce | D | 5.2 |
| 6400-Swy 0005 1998 | Arvada | Supermarkets and Other Groce | D | 5.2 |
| One Ski Hill - Breckenridge | Breckenridge | Hotels, resort, without casi | D | 5.2 |
| 610853200 - Coors Field-Concessions | Denver | Food Services | D | 5.2 |
| Construction and Service | Sedalia | Heating contractors | D | 5.2 |
| Omni Interlocken Hotel | Broomfield | Hotels (except casino hotels | D | 5.2 |
| 620-00075 | Parker | Supermarkets and Other Groce | D | 5.2 |
| 620-00129 | Erie | Supermarkets and Other Groce | D | 5.2 |
| Wm 2892 | Parker | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | D | 5.2 |
| Hilton Denver Inverness | Englewood | Hotel management services (i | D | 5.2 |
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.