Trimmers, string, lawn and garden-type, manufacturing · Arizona

MTD Southwest - Tempe

Tempe, AZ · ~134 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

MTD Southwest - Tempe runs at 48% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Trimmers, string, lawn and garden-type, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

MTD Southwest - Tempe: 1.6 TCR = 48% of Trimmers, string, lawn and garden-type, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

MTD Southwest - Tempe safety composite

MTD Southwest - Tempe scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 85% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 39%), 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

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% 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%).

Rising injury rate

MTD Southwest - Tempe: 0.7 → 2.5 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 2.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.55× in 2018

MTD Southwest - Tempe's TCR rose 1.8 from 0.7 in 2016 to 2.5 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.55× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333112 · Tempe, AZ AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.6 · 48% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK #2/4
  • PHOTO Toro Main Plant
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~134 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Toro Main Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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MTD Southwest - Tempe in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows MTD Southwest - Tempe averages 1.6 TCR (48% of the Trimmers, string, lawn and garden-type, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

MTD Southwest - Tempe TCR series: 2016=0.7 · 2018=2.5 · BLS 3.3

Where MTD Southwest - Tempe falls in its industry

91 Trimmers, string, lawn and gar establishments

Safer than 85% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arizona alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 4 Trimmers, string, lawn and gar employers in Arizona.

MTD Southwest - Tempe (134 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 240 employees and a TCR of 3.6 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate MTD Southwest - Tempe
MTD Southwest - Tempe (134 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 240 employees and a TCR of 3.6

MTD Southwest - Tempe has fewer employees than the Trimmers, string, lawn and garden-type, median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.6. 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
2018 2.5 2.5 3 0 0
2016 0.7 0.7 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333112 · AZ · Tempe

91 Trimmers, string, lawn and garden-type, 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 Toro Main Plant 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR John Deere Power Products 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Burleigh Campus 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR MTD Southwest - Tucson 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Riverside Ag Harvesting LLC 134 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southeast Directional Drilling 134 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brand Energy Services, LLC - Phoenix 134 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southwest Mobile storage 134 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 Madison Heights Son Recycling - F272 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Navigation Facility ENN7 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Giant Eagle #3090 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR J.M. Maly Inc. 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE La Crosse (Wilac) 134 FTE
NAT-SIZE Giant 2376 134 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stop & Shop 100527 134 FTE
NAT-SIZE Harrisburg Air Relief (Pamtl) 134 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: 2018, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.