Equipment and Machinery Repair and Maintenance · Nevada

Empire Southwest LLC Reno

Sparks, NV · ~242 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
2.8
Avg TCR
2.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Empire Southwest LLC Reno runs at 133% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Equipment and Machinery Repair and Maintenance workplace, earning a grade D.

Empire Southwest LLC Reno: 2.8 TCR = 133% of Equipment and Machinery Repair and Maintenance BLS 2.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Empire Southwest LLC Reno safety composite

Empire Southwest LLC Reno scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 48%), 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).

D

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.5

2023→2024

Empire Southwest LLC Reno injury rate improved

Empire Southwest LLC Reno's TCR fell 3.5 from 4.5 in 2023 to 1.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 4.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.19× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=4.5 · 2024=1.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 811310 · Sparks, NV ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 2.8 · 133% of ind

  • DART 0.5 DART
  • RANK #14/23
  • PHOTO Wiese Saint Louis
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~242 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Wiese Saint Louis (0.0 TCR gap)

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Empire Southwest LLC Reno in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Empire Southwest LLC Reno averages 2.8 TCR (133% of the Equipment and Machinery Repair and Maintenance BLS benchmark).

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

Empire Southwest LLC Reno TCR series: 2023=4.5 · 2024=1 · BLS 2.1

Where Empire Southwest LLC Reno falls in its industry

2,560 Equipment and Machinery Repair establishments

Safer than 48% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Nevada alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 23 Equipment and Machinery Repair employers in Nevada.

Empire Southwest LLC Reno (242 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 0100200300400500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Empire Southwest LLC Reno
Empire Southwest LLC Reno (242 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Empire Southwest LLC Reno has more employees than the Equipment and Machinery Repair and Maint median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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 1.0 0.5 4 0 0
2023 4.5 3.8 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

811310 · NV · Sparks

2,560 Equipment and Machinery Repair and Maintenance employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,574 rated employers in Nevada with headcount on file · 321 employers in Sparks, NV · 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 Wiese Saint Louis 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR SPATCO Energy Solutions, LLC - Miami Branch 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fraza 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Blair Road Satellite Office 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE 1171 - Las Vegas Silverado Ranch 242 FTE
STATE-SIZE 00000041 0041 RENO DC 41 242 FTE
STATE-SIZE Life Care Center of Las Vegas 242 FTE
STATE-SIZE Truckee Meadows Water Authority 241 FTE
CITY-NEAR NA-US-NV-Sparks-1-Electric Ave 7,992 FTE
CITY-NEAR NA-US-NV-Sparks-Electric Avenue 7,272 FTE
CITY-NEAR NA-US-NV-Sparks-Electric Avenue-Gigafactory 2,822 FTE
CITY-NEAR NVRNO - RENO HUB 1,324 FTE
NAT-TCR The Waterford at Carpenter's Creek 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR National Sales Corporation 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Empire Express, Inc. 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 442 2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ambassador Services International 242 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bailey Medical Center 242 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vista Metals Corp 242 FTE
NAT-SIZE Colortech Inc. 242 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.