Construction and Mining Machinery and Equipment Merchant Wholesalers · California

Empire Southwest LLC Imperial

Imperial, CA · ~43 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.2
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Empire Southwest LLC Imperial runs at 55% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Construction and Mining Machinery and Equipment Merchant Wholesalers workplace, earning a grade B.

Empire Southwest LLC Imperial: 1.2 TCR = 55% of Construction and Mining Machinery and Equipment Merchant Wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Empire Southwest LLC Imperial safety composite

Empire Southwest LLC Imperial scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (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

74/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% 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

−2.4

2023→2024

Empire Southwest LLC Imperial injury rate improved

Empire Southwest LLC Imperial's TCR fell 2.4 from 2.4 in 2023 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 2.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=2.4 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423810 · Imperial, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.2 · 55% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/27
  • PHOTO Richmond Construction
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~43 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Richmond Construction (0.0 TCR gap)

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Empire Southwest LLC Imperial in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Empire Southwest LLC Imperial averages 1.2 TCR (55% of the Construction and Mining Machinery and Equipment Merchant Wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Empire Southwest LLC Imperial TCR series: 2023=2.4 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.2

Where Empire Southwest LLC Imperial falls in its industry

533 Construction and Mining Machi establishments

Safer than 86% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 27 Construction and Mining Machi employers in California.

Empire Southwest LLC Imperial (43 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Empire Southwest LLC Imperial
Empire Southwest LLC Imperial (43 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Empire Southwest LLC Imperial has more employees than the Construction and Mining Machinery and median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 2.4 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423810 · CA · Imperial

533 Construction and Mining Machinery and Equipment Merchant Wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 24 employers in Imperial, 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 Richmond Construction 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 01054-01-01-DONALD 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 01067-01-01-CHEHALIS 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 01073-01-01-OKANOGAN 1.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Robert & Sandra Garcia Farming Partnership 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE ARVIN ADMINISTRATION 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Donald W Beeman 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE KG Vineyard Management, LLC 43 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Corrections 1,219 FTE
CITY-NEAR 70227 72 FTE
CITY-NEAR Imperial CA 67 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bullfrog Dairy 63 FTE
NAT-TCR Waste Industries Columbus 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR D03 North New Jersey 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Marc Glassman Inc 24WA 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Service Complete Electric, Inc. 1.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Farmington Mo 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE 065 - Gainesville Fl 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Southfield 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chillicothe, MO 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: 2024, 2023. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.