Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) · Arizona

Arizona Department of Public Safety

Name: Arizona Department of Public Safety Workplace Safety Data
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Phoenix, AZ · ~2,371 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 6.4
Avg TCR: 3.2
Industry avg: 1
Fatality

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The verdict

Arizona Department of Public Safety runs at 201% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) workplace, earning a grade F.

Arizona Department of Public Safety: 6.4 TCR = 201% of Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) BLS 3.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Arizona Department of Public Safety safety composite

Arizona Department of Public Safety scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 4%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 6.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers
DART rate: D 4.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers
Fatalities: F 1

Safer than 4% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

TCR Δ

−1.7

2017→2018

Arizona Department of Public Safety injury rate improved

Arizona Department of Public Safety's TCR fell 1.7 from 7.3 in 2017 to 5.6 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 7.3 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.68× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=7.3 · 2018=5.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922120 · Phoenix, AZ ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade F · TCR 6.4 · 201% of ind

DART 4.4 DART
RANK #5/29
PHOTO City of Alton, IL - …
BOOK 2y book
INJ 236 inj
SIZE ~2,371 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: City of Alton, IL - Police (0.0 TCR gap)

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City of Clive

6.5
This site

6.4
City of Alton,

6.4
POLICE DEPARTM

6.4
Police Departm

6.4

What this shows Arizona Department of Public Safety averages 6.4 TCR (201% of the Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) BLS benchmark).

Arizona Department of Public Safety TCR series: 2017=7.3 · 2018=5.6 · BLS 3.2

Where Arizona Department of Public Safety falls in its industry

716 Police departments (except Ame establishments

Safer than 70% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.5.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arizona alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 29 Police departments (except Ame employers in Arizona.

Arizona Department of Public Safety (2,371 employees, TCR 6.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5

Arizona Department of Public Safety has more employees than the Police departments (except American Indi median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 9.5. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year	TCR	DART	Injuries	Illnesses	Fatalities
2018	5.6	4.4	104	2	1
2017	7.3	5.5	132	6	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922120 · AZ · Phoenix

716 Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,594 rated employers in Arizona with headcount on file · 2,630 employers in Phoenix, AZ · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	City of Alton, IL - Police	ALTON, IL	6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	POLICE DEPARTMENT	FAIRFIELD, CT	6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Police Department	LAKE OSWEGO, OR	6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	City of Clive Police Department	CLIVE, IA	6.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE	HoneywellAZ75	PHOENIX	2,384 FTE
STATE-SIZE	NGSP-AZ23	CHANDLER	2,419 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Support Service Campus	SCOTTSDALE	2,419 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Palo Verde Generating Station	TONOPAH	2,446 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Maricopa County	Phoenix	15,504 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Phoenix Children's Hospital	Phoenix	7,575 FTE
CITY-NEAR	All Company	Phoenix	6,261 FTE
CITY-NEAR	6403-64030500	Phoenix	6,153 FTE
NAT-TCR	Republic National Distributing Company 4	Littleton, CO	6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	Manor Care Health Services - Yeadon	Yeadon, PA	6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	ATI Cast Products Salem Operations	Salem, OR	6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	Forest	Jamestown, NY	6.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE	PPE Casino Resorts Maryland d/b/a Live! Casino & Hotel	Hanover, MD	2,371 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Memorial Hospital Central	Colorado Springs, Co, CO	2,370 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Savannah College of Art and Design	Savannah, GA	2,369 FTE
NAT-SIZE	2904-ASM-CA	Any, CA	2,368 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.