An overhead door safety sensor mounting bracket allows overhead door safety sensors to travel beneath the leading edge of an overhead door for substantially the full travel path of the overhead door as the overhead door closes. The mounting brackets attach to the bottommost roller axles of the overhead door on opposite lateral sides of the overhead door. As the overhead door approaches a closed position, the mounting brackets for the overhead door safety sensors rotate about the bottommost roller axles of the overhead door. The safety sensors are rotated up above the ground so that neither the safety sensors, nor the mounting brackets touch the ground.