Automotive ServiceRepair · California

Empire Southwest, LLC - Blythe

Blythe, CA · ~24 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
2.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Empire Southwest, LLC - Blythe runs at 198% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Automotive ServiceRepair workplace, earning a grade D.

Empire Southwest, LLC - Blythe: 4.2 TCR = 198% of Automotive ServiceRepair BLS 2.1 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Empire Southwest, LLC - Blythe safety composite

Empire Southwest, LLC - Blythe scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 50%), 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

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.5

2020→2022

Empire Southwest, LLC - Blythe injury rate improved

Empire Southwest, LLC - Blythe's TCR fell 4.5 from 4.5 in 2020 to 0.0 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 8.0 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=4.5 · 2021=8.0 · 2022=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 811111 · Blythe, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.2 · 198% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #23/51
  • PHOTO Safety Kleen Systems…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Safety Kleen Systems Inc 77NBW (0.0 TCR gap)

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Empire Southwest, LLC - Blythe in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Empire Southwest, LLC - Blythe averages 4.2 TCR (198% of the Automotive ServiceRepair BLS benchmark).

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

Empire Southwest, LLC - Blythe TCR series: 2020=4.5 · 2021=8 · 2022=0 · BLS 2.1

Where Empire Southwest, LLC - Blythe falls in its industry

609 Automotive ServiceRepair establishments

Safer than 50% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #23 safest of 51 Automotive ServiceRepair employers in California.

Empire Southwest, LLC - Blythe (24 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 40 employees and a TCR of 4.2 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 0200400600 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Empire Southwest, LLC - Blythe
Empire Southwest, LLC - Blythe (24 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 40 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Empire Southwest, LLC - Blythe has fewer employees than the Automotive ServiceRepair median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 8.0 4.0 2 0 0
2020 4.5 4.5 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

811111 · CA · Blythe

609 Automotive ServiceRepair employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 33 employers in Blythe, CA · 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 Safety Kleen Systems Inc 77NBW 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR NA-US-TN-Memphis-Bartlett-3020 N Germantown Pkwy 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6738 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Guntersville Truck Shop 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Agro-Jal Farming Enterprises 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE MTD Farms 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Marc Pura Ranch, LLC 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Costa Farms 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 548 1,679 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ironwood State Prison 1,070 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHUCKAWALLA VALLEY STATE PRISON 804 FTE
CITY-NEAR Palo Verde Healthcare District 121 FTE
NAT-TCR Domino's Supply Chain Center- Kentucky 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Obermeyer Agri Group, Inc. 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 482203-Dal-Bent Tree Sta 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Ordean East Middle School 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE United Dairy, Cottonwood Dairy 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Schwartz Farms Pheasant Ridge NE 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Schwartz Farms CLF MN 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE BCHC Family Medicine - Oelwein 24 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.