Employer · Arizona

Pds2 - Public Defense Services

Tucson, AZ · ~274 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.9
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Pds2 - Public Defense Services runs at 27% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade A.

Pds2 - Public Defense Services: 0.9 TCR = 27% of industry BLS 3.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Pds2 - Public Defense Services safety composite

Pds2 - Public Defense Services scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 68% 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

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 0.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% 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

−1.1

2017→2023

Pds2 - Public Defense Services injury rate improved

Pds2 - Public Defense Services's TCR fell 1.1 from 2.0 in 2017 to 0.8 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2017 at 2.0 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=2.0 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=1.6 · 2020=0.0 · 2022=0.8 · 2023=0.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 27% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #10/19
  • PHOTO County Attorney's Of…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~274 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: County Attorney's Office (0.0 TCR gap)

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Pds2 - Public Defense Services in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Pds2 - Public Defense Services averages 0.9 TCR (27% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Pds2 - Public Defense Services TCR series: 2017=2 · 2018=0 · 2019=1.6 · 2020=0 · 2022=0.8 · 2023=0.8 · BLS 3.2

Where Pds2 - Public Defense Services falls in its industry

92 industry establishments

Safer than 64% 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 #10 safest of 19 industry employers in Arizona.

Pds2 - Public Defense Services (274 employees, TCR 0.9) 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 Pds2 - Public Defense Services
Pds2 - Public Defense Services (274 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 1.2

Pds2 - Public Defense Services has more employees than the industry 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
2023 0.8 0.0 2 0 0
2022 0.8 0.4 2 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 1.6 0.8 4 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 2.0 0.0 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922130 · AZ · Tucson

92 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,594 rated employers in Arizona with headcount on file · 1,150 employers in Tucson, 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 County Attorney's Office 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Phoenix B15 City Attny 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Commonwealth's Attorney 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kingman County Attorney Building 0.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Achen Gardner Construction, LLC 274 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brewer Enterprises Inc. 274 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ace Hardware Retail Support Center (Prescott Valley) 274 FTE
STATE-SIZE 660-00682 274 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Arizona 18,951 FTE
CITY-NEAR Raytheon_Tucson_AZ_Airport Site 9,878 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tucson Medical Center 4,407 FTE
CITY-NEAR U.S. Border Patrol Sector - Tucson 3,989 FTE
NAT-TCR L3 Technologies - Pope 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Sparks 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Munising Community Center 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Spieker Company 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Duncan & Sons' Building Maintenance LLC 274 FTE
NAT-SIZE Parkdale America LLC Plant 24 274 FTE
NAT-SIZE Robert Bearden Inc. 274 FTE
NAT-SIZE RiverMead 274 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.