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The authors study interior \(W^{1,p}\) estimates for weak solutions to quasilinear parabolic equations in divergence form \[ u_t - \operatorname {div}a(x,t, \nabla u) = 0 \] where \(a\) satisfies some hypotheses, in particular that it is a Carathéodory function, i.e. that \(a(x,t,\zeta)\) in \((x,t)\) is measurable and it is continuous with respect to \(\zeta\) for each \(x.\) They extend the elliptic case studied by \textit{L. Caffarelli} and the first author in [Commun. Pure Appl. Math. 51, 1-21 (1998; Zbl 0906.35030)] to the parabolic case. The basic argument is to estimate the level sets of \(\nabla_x u\) and obtain the requested growth of their measure to have the integrability property. An important tool to obtain this results is a form of the Calderon-Zygmund covering property.