Academies, college or university · Arizona

Northern Arizona University

Flagstaff, AZ · ~7,465 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Northern Arizona University runs at 117% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Academies, college or university workplace, earning a grade C.

Northern Arizona University: 1.6 TCR = 117% of Academies, college or university BLS 1.4 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Northern Arizona University safety composite

Northern Arizona University scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 27%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 1.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% of industry peers

DART rate
F 0.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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%).

Northern Arizona University held a steady TCR band

Northern Arizona University's TCR held near 0.1 from 1.5 in 2016 to 1.4 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2018 at 2.2 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.59× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.5 · 2017=0.9 · 2018=2.2 · 2019=2.1 · 2021=2.0 · 2022=1.4 · 2023=1.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611310 · Flagstaff, AZ ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade C · TCR 1.6 · 117% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #5/6
  • PHOTO University of Nevada…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 323 inj
  • SIZE ~7,465 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: University of Nevada, Las Vegas (0.0 TCR gap)

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Northern Arizona University in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Northern Arizona University averages 1.6 TCR (117% of the Academies, college or university BLS benchmark).

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

Northern Arizona University TCR series: 2016=1.5 · 2017=0.9 · 2018=2.2 · 2019=2.1 · 2021=2 · 2022=1.4 · 2023=1.4 · BLS 1.4

Where Northern Arizona University falls in its industry

347 Academies, college or universi establishments

Safer than 45% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arizona alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 6 Academies, college or universi employers in Arizona.

Northern Arizona University (7,465 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 617 employees and a TCR of 1.5 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 02,0004,0006,0008,00010,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Northern Arizona University
Northern Arizona University (7,465 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 617 employees and a TCR of 1.5

Northern Arizona University has more employees than the Academies, college or university median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.5. 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
2023 1.4 1.0 44 11 0
2022 1.4 1.1 45 7 0
2021 2.0 1.2 48 4 0
2019 2.1 1.8 49 9 0
2018 2.2 1.6 53 8 0
2017 0.9 0.7 34 5 0
2016 1.5 1.3 50 5 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611310 · AZ · Flagstaff

347 Academies, college or university employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,594 rated employers in Arizona with headcount on file · 181 employers in Flagstaff, 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 University of Nevada, Las Vegas 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR UC San Francisco 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR NYU Langone School of Medicine 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Eastern Michigan University 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Phoenix Children's Hospital 7,575 FTE
STATE-SIZE Educational Services LLC 6,575 FTE
STATE-SIZE All Company 6,261 FTE
STATE-SIZE Chandler Campus 6,163 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northern Arizona Healthcare 4,087 FTE
CITY-NEAR Coconino County Board of Supervisors 1,102 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Flagstaff 1,075 FTE
CITY-NEAR Woody Springs 611 FTE
NAT-TCR SD & S Trucking LLC 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Gdc 1 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR IES Commercial, Inc - dba Shanahan M&E 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR ccof Inc 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE University of Miami 7,474 FTE
NAT-SIZE HealthTrust Workforce Solutions 7,490 FTE
NAT-SIZE South Metro 7,525 FTE
NAT-SIZE Oxford 7,387 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.