Heavy Equipment Rental · Arizona

Empire Southwest LLC Buckeye Miller

Buckeye, AZ · ~36 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Empire Southwest LLC Buckeye Miller runs at 171% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Heavy Equipment Rental workplace, earning a grade D.

Empire Southwest LLC Buckeye Miller: 2.4 TCR = 171% of Heavy Equipment Rental BLS 1.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Empire Southwest LLC Buckeye Miller safety composite

Empire Southwest LLC Buckeye Miller scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 43%), 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

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% 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

−0.5

2023→2024

Empire Southwest LLC Buckeye Miller injury rate improved

Empire Southwest LLC Buckeye Miller's TCR fell 0.5 from 2.6 in 2023 to 2.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 2.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=2.6 · 2024=2.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 532412 · Buckeye, AZ ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 2.4 · 171% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #5/6
  • PHOTO Hercules Machinery C…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~36 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hercules Machinery Corporation (0.0 TCR gap)

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Empire Southwest LLC Buckeye Miller in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Empire Southwest LLC Buckeye Miller averages 2.4 TCR (171% of the Heavy Equipment Rental BLS benchmark).

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

Empire Southwest LLC Buckeye Miller TCR series: 2023=2.6 · 2024=2.2 · BLS 1.4

Where Empire Southwest LLC Buckeye Miller falls in its industry

270 Heavy Equipment Rental establishments

Safer than 43% 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 #5 safest of 6 Heavy Equipment Rental employers in Arizona.

Empire Southwest LLC Buckeye Miller (36 employees, TCR 2.4) 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 Buckeye Miller
Empire Southwest LLC Buckeye Miller (36 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 37 employees and a TCR of 2.1

Empire Southwest LLC Buckeye Miller has fewer employees than the Heavy Equipment Rental median and a higher 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
2024 2.2 0.0 1 0 0
2023 2.6 2.6 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

532412 · AZ · Buckeye

270 Heavy Equipment Rental employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,594 rated employers in Arizona with headcount on file · 82 employers in Buckeye, 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 Hercules Machinery Corporation 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Franklin Equipment - Groveport 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Admar Supply 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Franklin Equipment - Cincinnati 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Verde River Growers, LLC 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fondomonte CA - Blythe Farm 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dynapac Harvesting, Inc. (AZ) 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Todd Whittaker Drywall Inc 36 FTE
CITY-NEAR AZ State Prison Complex - Lewis 1,334 FTE
CITY-NEAR Az Department of Corrections 1,162 FTE
CITY-NEAR ASPC-Lewis 1,134 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6031 964 FTE
NAT-TCR Vishay Dale Plant 2 and HR 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Oaks at Lake Wildwood 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Westmoreland ICF 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Femia IRA 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Apple Creek Place 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shurmer Place Memory Assisted Living 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jesco Industries, INC 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bennett Mfg 36 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: 2024, 2023. 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.