Air cowls, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing · Arizona

Empire Metal Products Inc

Phoenix, AZ · ~136 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
17.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Empire Metal Products Inc runs at 525% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Air cowls, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Empire Metal Products Inc: 17.3 TCR = 525% of Air cowls, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Empire Metal Products Inc safety composite

Empire Metal Products Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 2%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 17.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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

Empire Metal Products Inc: 14.7 → 20.0 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 20.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.3× in 2017

Empire Metal Products Inc's TCR rose 5.3 from 14.7 in 2016 to 20.0 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0.3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332322 · Phoenix, AZ ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 17.3 · 525% of ind

  • DART 5.2 DART
  • RANK #18/19
  • PHOTO ABASCO INC
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 45 inj
  • SIZE ~136 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ABASCO INC (0.1 TCR gap)

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Empire Metal Products Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Empire Metal Products Inc averages 17.3 TCR (525% of the Air cowls, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Empire Metal Products Inc TCR series: 2016=14.7 · 2017=20 · BLS 3.3

Where Empire Metal Products Inc falls in its industry

1,158 Air cowls, sheet metal (except establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arizona alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 19 Air cowls, sheet metal (except employers in Arizona.

Empire Metal Products Inc (136 employees, TCR 17.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 050100150200 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Empire Metal Products Inc
Empire Metal Products Inc (136 employees, TCR 17.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Empire Metal Products Inc has more employees than the Air cowls, sheet metal (except stampings median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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
2017 20.0 5.2 27 0 0
2016 14.7 2.4 18 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332322 · AZ · Phoenix

1,158 Air cowls, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing 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 Metric
NAICS-TCR ABASCO INC 17.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alliance Mechanical LLC 17.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR LASER 1 TECHNOLOGIES INC 17.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Duc-Pac Corporation 16.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Nature Fresh Farms 136 FTE
STATE-SIZE CAZ-Tempe Operations Center 0042-FAC31 136 FTE
STATE-SIZE Flynn BEC LP - Phoenix 136 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mesa Organic Baking Co 136 FTE
CITY-NEAR Maricopa County 15,504 FTE
CITY-NEAR Phoenix Children's Hospital 7,575 FTE
CITY-NEAR All Company 6,261 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6403-64030500 6,153 FTE
NAT-TCR PT527 - York, PA Core 17.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Moran Nursing and Rehabilitation 17.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 4598-Rtc Orlando South 17.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 330315-Atlantic Highlands Po 17.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE South Service Center 136 FTE
NAT-SIZE MS - Virginia Beach - VA - 5OCVA 136 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nashville (Tnlve) 136 FTE
NAT-SIZE Carteret (Njcrt) 136 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: 2017, 2016. 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.