Executive offices, federal, state, and local (e.g., governor, mayor, president) · Arizona

City of Tempe

Tempe, AZ · ~2,862 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.3
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
1
Fatality
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

City of Tempe runs at 228% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Executive offices, federal, state, and local (e.g., governor, mayor, president) workplace, earning a grade F.

City of Tempe: 7.3 TCR = 228% of Executive offices, federal, state, and local (e.g., governor, mayor, president) BLS 3.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Tempe safety composite

City of Tempe scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 34% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 3%), 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).

F

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 3% 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%).

Rising injury rate

City of Tempe: 6.6 → 7.6 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 8.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.42× in 2024

City of Tempe's TCR rose 1.1 from 6.6 in 2019 to 7.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 8.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.42× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 921110 · Tempe, AZ ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade F · TCR 7.3 · 228% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK #34/39
  • PHOTO Town of Collierville
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 772 inj
  • SIZE ~2,862 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Town of Collierville (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · Arizona employers → · Look up another →

City of Tempe in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows City of Tempe averages 7.3 TCR (228% of the Executive offices, federal, state, and local (e.g., governor, mayor, president) BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

City of Tempe TCR series: 2019=6.6 · 2020=7.8 · 2021=7.8 · 2022=8 · 2023=6 · 2024=7.6 · BLS 3.2

Where City of Tempe falls in its industry

1,010 Executive offices, federal, st establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arizona alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #34 safest of 39 Executive offices, federal, st employers in Arizona.

City of Tempe (2,862 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.8 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 01,0002,0003,0004,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate City of Tempe
City of Tempe (2,862 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.8

City of Tempe has more employees than the Executive offices, federal, state, and l median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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
2024 7.6 3.0 142 6 1
2023 6.0 3.2 111 4 0
2022 8.0 5.0 141 3 0
2021 7.8 4.7 128 5 0
2020 7.8 3.0 136 0 0
2019 6.6 5.1 114 5 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

921110 · AZ · Tempe

1,010 Executive offices, federal, state, and local (e.g., governor, mayor, president) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,594 rated employers in Arizona with headcount on file · 569 employers in Tempe, AZ · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Town of Collierville 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Baker City 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Walker 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR BULLITT COUNTY FISCAL COURT 7.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE SHEA MEDICAL CTR CAMPUS 2,881 FTE
STATE-SIZE Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station 2,816 FTE
STATE-SIZE SUPPORT SERVICES CAMPUS 2,800 FTE
STATE-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - GYR3 2,718 FTE
CITY-NEAR SALT RIVER PROJECT DISTRICT VALLEY 4,655 FTE
CITY-NEAR 202376 4,627 FTE
CITY-NEAR Valley Plants and Offices 4,518 FTE
CITY-NEAR IES Communications, LLC 3,432 FTE
NAT-TCR Ellison Bakery LLC 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 62054 - Capstone Us Foods Port Orange Fl 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Citizens Medical Ctr 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 0695 - Cool Springs 7.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - DET3 2,861 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gacor - Ups Corporate Offices 2,861 FTE
NAT-SIZE Spotsylvania County Schools 2,863 FTE
NAT-SIZE California Department of Transportation Facility 111 2,859 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.