Photovoltaic cells manufacturing · Arizona

First Solar Tempe Office

Tempe, AZ · ~202 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

First Solar Tempe Office runs at 2% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Photovoltaic cells manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

First Solar Tempe Office: 0.1 TCR = 2% of Photovoltaic cells manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

First Solar Tempe Office safety composite

First Solar Tempe Office scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 99% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

B

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 99% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% 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%).

First Solar Tempe Office held a steady TCR band

First Solar Tempe Office's TCR held near 0.3 from 0.3 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 0.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.3 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=0.3 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 334413 · Tempe, AZ AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.1 · 2% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/22
  • PHOTO NXP USA, Inc Holger
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~202 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: NXP USA, Inc Holger (0.0 TCR gap)

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First Solar Tempe Office in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows First Solar Tempe Office averages 0.1 TCR (2% of the Photovoltaic cells manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

First Solar Tempe Office TCR series: 2016=0.3 · 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=0.3 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where First Solar Tempe Office falls in its industry

437 Photovoltaic cells manufacturi establishments

Safer than 99% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 0.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arizona alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 22 Photovoltaic cells manufacturi employers in Arizona.

First Solar Tempe Office (202 employees, TCR 0.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 216 employees and a TCR of 0.9 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 0246 Average employees Total Case Rate First Solar Tempe Office
First Solar Tempe Office (202 employees, TCR 0.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 216 employees and a TCR of 0.9

First Solar Tempe Office has fewer employees than the Photovoltaic cells manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 0.9. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.3 0.0 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.3 0.3 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

334413 · AZ · Tempe

437 Photovoltaic cells manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,594 rated employers in Arizona with headcount on file · 569 employers in Tempe, 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 NXP USA, Inc Holger 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Allegro MicroSystems Manchester, NH 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Skyworks Solutions, Inc. - Austin, TX 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR SCI, LLC - Scottsdale 0.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE GBPR, LLC D/B/A George Brazil 202 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 5799 202 FTE
STATE-SIZE Buckeye HUB 202 FTE
STATE-SIZE Phoenix Modular Inc 203 FTE
CITY-NEAR SALT RIVER PROJECT DISTRICT VALLEY 4,655 FTE
CITY-NEAR 202376 4,627 FTE
CITY-NEAR Valley Plants and Offices 4,518 FTE
CITY-NEAR IES Communications, LLC 3,432 FTE
NAT-TCR Continental Automotive Systems Deer Park, IL 0.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Hydrite Chemical Co. HQ - Brookfield WI 0.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Lear Corporation - Building 100 0.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Lockheed Martin Corporation Lufkin (1551) 0.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Royal Oaks Hospital 202 FTE
NAT-SIZE Georgetown 202 FTE
NAT-SIZE Oak Creek 37 202 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dick Lavy Trucking 202 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.