Attorney generals' offices · Arizona

Maricopa County - Public Defender (520)

Phoenix, AZ · ~457 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.6
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

Maricopa County - Public Defender (520) runs at 20% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Attorney generals' offices workplace, earning a grade A.

Maricopa County - Public Defender (520): 0.6 TCR = 20% of Attorney generals' offices BLS 3.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Maricopa County - Public Defender (520) safety composite

Maricopa County - Public Defender (520) scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 80% 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).

C

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% 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

−0.5

2019→2024

Maricopa County - Public Defender (520) injury rate improved

Maricopa County - Public Defender (520)'s TCR fell 0.5 from 0.8 in 2019 to 0.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 1.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=0.8 · 2020=1.3 · 2021=0.8 · 2022=0.6 · 2023=0.3 · 2024=0.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922130 · Phoenix, AZ AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.6 · 20% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/19
  • PHOTO Maricopa County - Le…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~457 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Maricopa County - Legal Advocate (550) (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · Arizona employers → · Look up another →

Maricopa County - Public Defender (520) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Maricopa County - Public Defender (520) averages 0.6 TCR (20% of the Attorney generals' offices BLS benchmark).

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

Maricopa County - Public Defender (520) TCR series: 2019=0.8 · 2020=1.3 · 2021=0.8 · 2022=0.6 · 2023=0.3 · 2024=0.2 · BLS 3.2

Where Maricopa County - Public Defender (520) falls in its industry

92 Attorney generals' offices establishments

Safer than 80% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arizona alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 19 Attorney generals' offices employers in Arizona.

Maricopa County - Public Defender (520) (457 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 1.2 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 05001,0001,5002,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Maricopa County - Public Defender (520)
Maricopa County - Public Defender (520) (457 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 1.2

Maricopa County - Public Defender (520) has more employees than the Attorney generals' offices median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.2. 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
2024 0.2 0.0 1 0 0
2023 0.3 0.3 1 0 0
2022 0.6 0.0 2 0 0
2021 0.8 0.5 3 0 0
2020 1.3 0.5 5 0 0
2019 0.8 0.5 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922130 · AZ · Phoenix

92 Attorney generals' offices employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,594 rated employers in Arizona with headcount on file · 2,630 employers in Phoenix, 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 Maricopa County - Legal Advocate (550) 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Commerce Building Trial Division 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Maricopa County - County Attorney (190) 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR County Counsel 0.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Freshly 456 FTE
STATE-SIZE Avnet McKemy (USMC) 458 FTE
STATE-SIZE Glendale (75) 456 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bashas Distribution Center 458 FTE
CITY-NEAR Maricopa County 15,504 FTE
CITY-NEAR Phoenix Children's Hospital 7,575 FTE
CITY-NEAR All Company 6,261 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6403-64030500 6,153 FTE
NAT-TCR James J. Anderson Construction Co., Inc & Riverside Materials, Inc. 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR DB Schenker 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Rayonier Advanced Materials - Jesup Plant 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Bradford Exchange 0.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE PLD Westbury 457 FTE
NAT-SIZE Yaskawa America Inc., Motoman Robotics Division 457 FTE
NAT-SIZE Everport Terminal Services, Inc. Oakland 457 FTE
NAT-SIZE Johnson Health Tech North America, Inc. 457 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.