Drywall contractors · Arizona

Copper State Plastering Inc

Tucson, AZ · ~30 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.3
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Copper State Plastering Inc runs at 475% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Drywall contractors workplace, earning a grade F.

Copper State Plastering Inc: 13.3 TCR = 475% of Drywall contractors BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Copper State Plastering Inc safety composite

Copper State Plastering Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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).

D

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 13.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Copper State Plastering Inc: 9.1 → 9.5 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 21.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2023

Copper State Plastering Inc's TCR rose 0.4 from 9.1 in 2019 to 9.5 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2020 at 21.3 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238310 · Tucson, AZ ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 13.3 · 475% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #54/55
  • PHOTO J.J. MORRIS & SONS I…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: J.J. MORRIS & SONS INC. (0.1 TCR gap)

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Copper State Plastering Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Copper State Plastering Inc averages 13.3 TCR (475% of the Drywall contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Copper State Plastering Inc TCR series: 2019=9.1 · 2020=21.3 · 2023=9.5 · BLS 2.8

Where Copper State Plastering Inc falls in its industry

1,613 Drywall contractors establishments

Safer than 4% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arizona alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #54 safest of 55 Drywall contractors employers in Arizona.

Copper State Plastering Inc (30 employees, TCR 13.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Copper State Plastering Inc
Copper State Plastering Inc (30 employees, TCR 13.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Copper State Plastering Inc has fewer employees than the Drywall contractors median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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
2023 9.5 0.0 3 0 0
2020 21.3 0.0 3 0 0
2019 9.1 9.1 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238310 · AZ · Tucson

1,613 Drywall contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,594 rated employers in Arizona with headcount on file · 1,150 employers in Tucson, 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 J.J. MORRIS & SONS INC. 13.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Drywall Unlimited Corp. 13.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cardoza Construction, LLC 13.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Residential Commercial Insulation, LLC 13.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE AYC 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southwest Energy Office 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE SAZ-Sierra Vista Office 0047-FAC27 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Apache Junction Sewer District 30 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Arizona 18,951 FTE
CITY-NEAR Raytheon_Tucson_AZ_Airport Site 9,878 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tucson Medical Center 4,407 FTE
CITY-NEAR U.S. Border Patrol Sector - Tucson 3,989 FTE
NAT-TCR Northbrook School District 28 13.3 TCR
NAT-TCR LSI - SkyWays 13.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Southern States Midlothian Service 13.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Vanfab 13.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lakewood 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chinatowne Furniture 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4102-Moxy Austin Dt/Ut 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE JSP - Mold 30 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: 2023, 2020, 2019. 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.