Painting (except roof) contractors · Arizona

EMPAZ, Inc. dba EmpireWorks

Tempe, AZ · ~43 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.6
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

EMPAZ, Inc. dba EmpireWorks runs at 306% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Painting (except roof) contractors workplace, earning a grade F.

EMPAZ, Inc. dba EmpireWorks: 8.6 TCR = 306% of Painting (except roof) contractors BLS 2.8 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

EMPAZ, Inc. dba EmpireWorks safety composite

EMPAZ, Inc. dba EmpireWorks scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
F 12.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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

EMPAZ, Inc. dba EmpireWorks: 10.7 → 12.3 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 12.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.44× in 2021

EMPAZ, Inc. dba EmpireWorks's TCR rose 1.6 from 10.7 in 2016 to 12.3 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.44× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238320 · Tempe, AZ ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.6 · 306% of ind

  • DART 12.3 DART
  • RANK #12/15
  • PHOTO North Carolina Servi…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~43 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: North Carolina Service Center (0.0 TCR gap)

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EMPAZ, Inc. dba EmpireWorks in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows EMPAZ, Inc. dba EmpireWorks averages 8.6 TCR (306% of the Painting (except roof) contractors BLS benchmark).

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

EMPAZ, Inc. dba EmpireWorks TCR series: 2016=10.7 · 2017=9 · 2018=8.3 · 2019=2.3 · 2020=8.8 · 2021=12.3 · BLS 2.8

Where EMPAZ, Inc. dba EmpireWorks falls in its industry

582 Painting (except roof) contrac establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arizona alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 15 Painting (except roof) contrac employers in Arizona.

EMPAZ, Inc. dba EmpireWorks (43 employees, TCR 8.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate EMPAZ, Inc. dba EmpireWorks
EMPAZ, Inc. dba EmpireWorks (43 employees, TCR 8.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 2.8

EMPAZ, Inc. dba EmpireWorks has fewer employees than the Painting (except roof) contractors median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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
2021 12.3 12.3 3 0 0
2020 8.8 2.9 3 0 0
2019 2.3 0.0 1 0 0
2018 8.3 8.3 3 0 0
2017 9.0 7.2 5 0 0
2016 10.7 2.1 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238320 · AZ · Tempe

582 Painting (except roof) contractors 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 North Carolina Service Center 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Maine Painting Company 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Advantage Painting Solutions 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR A.A. PAINT & CUSTOM FINISHES, INC. 8.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Excelsior Mining AZ 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Apache Junction 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE SMS Construction, LLC 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Integrity Building Corp 43 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 HawkeyePedershaab Concrete Technologies, Inc. 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Freshpet Kitchens Bethlehem 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Rome Health and Rehabilitation Center 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Tokusen - Conway 8.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Systems Plumbing 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Atomic Recycling, LLC 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Locations 7 Chula Vista 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alta Industrial Equipment Company Itasca 43 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.