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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
S&H Products LLC Arvada Nozzles, fire fighting, manu D 4.8
2904-SAS-CO Any Wholesale Trade Agents and B F 4.8
Columbine Commons Health and Rehab Windsor Skilled nursing facilities B 4.8
6400-Swy 0005 1248 Denver Supermarkets and Other Groce D 4.8
Pine Ridge Extended Care Center Pagosa Springs Skilled nursing facilities B 4.8
Camden Interlocken Broomfield Lessors Residential Bldgs Dw F 4.8
Branch 49 Grand Junction Metals Recycling F 4.8
Denver Processing Denver Fresh meats merchant wholesa F 4.8
620-00019 Denver Supermarkets and Other Groce D 4.8
620-00413 Fruita Supermarkets and Other Groce D 4.8
Fort Carson Building - 1444 Wolf IWR Fort Carson Vocational Rehabilitation Se D 4.8
Wm 3566 Denver Warehouse Clubs and Supercen D 4.8
ADI Aurora General Warehousing and Stor C 4.8
Sodexo at Penrose Hospital Es Colorado Springs Building Cleaning Maintenanc C 4.8
71344 Denver Department Stores D 4.8
The Inn at Garden Plaza Colorado Springs Senior citizens' homes witho D 4.8
620-00022 Arvada Supermarkets and Other Groce D 4.8
300092900 Boulder Community Health Boulder Food Services D 4.8
Longmont, CO-Biolife 648 Longmont Plasmapheresis Center D 4.8
9277-166 Mountain House Base Area Keystone Alpine skiing facilities wit D 4.8
University of Colorado Hospital Memorial Central Colorado Springs Hospitals, general medical a B 4.8
Dal-Tile 109 Denver Denver Building materials supply de D 4.8
Boulder Scientific Company Mead Organo-inorganic compound ma D 4.8
Wm 6630 Arvada - D 4.8
Infuzionz, LLC Denver Herbal supplements manufactu D 4.8
Arapahoe-AR Englewood Grocery stores D 4.8
2125 Lakewood Warehouse Clubs and Supercen D 4.8
The Windsor Windsor Continuing care retirement c D 4.8
4054-Abs 0004 0816 Pueblo Supermarkets and Other Groce D 4.8
6400-Swy 0005 0836 Frisco Supermarkets and Other Groce D 4.8
2943 Centennial Automotive Dealers D 4.8
Sigma Metals Shop Colorado Springs Structural steel erecting or D 4.8
Cobalt Cattle Company LLC - Eckley Eckley Beef cattle feedlots (except C 4.7
17185 Doubletree By Hilton Durango Durango Hotels D 4.7
Sodexo at Uc Health Highlands Food Highlands Ranch Food Service Contractors D 4.7
Vergent Products Loveland Engineering design services F 4.7
Wm 1384 La Junta - D 4.7
Wm 5051 Greeley Warehouse Clubs and Supercen D 4.7
Roberts Electrical Contracting Commerce City Commerce City Electrical contractors D 4.7
Denver Progressive Denver Roofing contractors D 4.7
Source Communications, LLP Broomfield Computer and network cable i D 4.7
Berkley Manor Care Center Denver Home nursing services, priva D 4.7
Landscape Workshop Inc. Carbondale Landscape care and maintenan C 4.7
620-00089 Broomfield Supermarkets and Other Groce D 4.7
Rifle Annex_1440398 Rifle Mail and Parcel Delivery C 4.7
01-03-02 West Div - Rocky Mountain Region Centennial Dental equipment and supplie F 4.7
569 - Greeley Greeley - D 4.7
072373-Denver Spruce Vmf Denver Mail and Parcel Delivery C 4.7
Hutchison Western Adams City Fencing, wood, merchant whol F 4.7
1896 Colorado Springs Warehouse Clubs and Supercen D 4.7
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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.