Heavy Equip Rental · Arizona

Empire Southwest, LLC - Apache Junction

Apache Junction, AZ · ~170 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.7
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Empire Southwest, LLC - Apache Junction runs at 48% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Heavy Equip Rental workplace, earning a grade A.

Empire Southwest, LLC - Apache Junction: 0.7 TCR = 48% of Heavy Equip Rental BLS 1.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Empire Southwest, LLC - Apache Junction safety composite

Empire Southwest, LLC - Apache Junction scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 93% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 46%), 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).

C

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 93% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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 Southwest, LLC - Apache Junction: 0.0 → 1.0 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 1.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.46× in 2022

Empire Southwest, LLC - Apache Junction's TCR rose 1.0 from 0.0 in 2020 to 1.0 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 1.0 TCR. In 2022, DART was 1.46× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 532412 · Apache Junction, AZ AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.7 · 48% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #2/6
  • PHOTO Equipmentshare.com, …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~170 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Equipmentshare.com, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Empire Southwest, LLC - Apache Junction in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Empire Southwest, LLC - Apache Junction averages 0.7 TCR (48% of the Heavy Equip Rental BLS benchmark).

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

Empire Southwest, LLC - Apache Junction TCR series: 2020=0 · 2021=1 · 2022=1 · BLS 1.4

Where Empire Southwest, LLC - Apache Junction falls in its industry

270 Heavy Equip Rental establishments

Safer than 93% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arizona alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 6 Heavy Equip Rental employers in Arizona.

Empire Southwest, LLC - Apache Junction (170 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 37 employees and a TCR of 2.1 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 05001,0001,500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Empire Southwest, LLC - Apache Junction
Empire Southwest, LLC - Apache Junction (170 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 37 employees and a TCR of 2.1

Empire Southwest, LLC - Apache Junction has more employees than the Heavy Equip Rental median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.1. 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
2022 1.0 1.0 2 0 0
2021 1.0 0.0 2 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

532412 · AZ · Apache Junction

270 Heavy Equip Rental employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,594 rated employers in Arizona with headcount on file · 49 employers in Apache Junction, 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 Equipmentshare.com, Inc. 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Empire Southwest LLC Apache Junction 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 81-ICT Rental 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Herc Rental 9684 0.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Layne Christensen 12030 East Riggs Road 170 FTE
STATE-SIZE New Electric, Inc. 170 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pueblo Mechanical and Controls 170 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tempe Production 170 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1381 360 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1381 354 FTE
CITY-NEAR Arizona Office 349 FTE
CITY-NEAR Western Industrial Resources Corp 336 FTE
NAT-TCR Lockheed Martin Corporation Naval Air Station Lemoore (5157) 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 2073-SW-20730025-FO 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR ISD 485 Royalton Elementary 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Middlesex Equipment 0.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE 3495-10D8126 170 FTE
NAT-SIZE South Holland Manor Hrc 170 FTE
NAT-SIZE Maryland- Supply Chain Center 170 FTE
NAT-SIZE 198355-Shawnee Mission Po 170 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: 2022, 2021, 2020. 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.