Workers Compensation Recordkeeping and Reporting Requirements – CO

COLORADO 

Must Employers Maintain Records of Accidents or Injuries? 

Yes, all injuries resulting in fatality or permanent physical impairment, or lost time from work for employee in excess of 3 shifts or calendar days. 

Must Employers Report Injuries? 

  Yes   

When Must Report be made? 

Within 10 days of notice or knowledge that an employee has contracted an occupational disease disability or suffered a permanent physical impairment or lost time injury, or immediately after a fatality. Other injuries need to be reported only to insurer, which reports monthly.  

Penalties for Failure to Report 

  State has no statutory requirements.  

Citation to Authority – click link, scroll to statute to view:  

Colo. Rev. Stat. Ann. §§ 8-43-101