Machine shops · Arizona

Piper Plastics, Chandler

Chandler, AZ · ~106 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Piper Plastics, Chandler runs at 38% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Machine shops workplace, earning a grade A.

Piper Plastics, Chandler: 1.3 TCR = 38% of Machine shops BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Piper Plastics, Chandler safety composite

Piper Plastics, Chandler scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

74/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

−0.9

2016→2018

Piper Plastics, Chandler injury rate improved

Piper Plastics, Chandler's TCR fell 0.9 from 1.9 in 2016 to 1.0 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 1.9 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.9 · 2017=0.9 · 2018=1.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332710 · Chandler, AZ AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.3 · 38% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/18
  • PHOTO Grove City location
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~106 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Grove City location (0.0 TCR gap)

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Piper Plastics, Chandler in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Piper Plastics, Chandler averages 1.3 TCR (38% of the Machine shops BLS benchmark).

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

Piper Plastics, Chandler TCR series: 2016=1.9 · 2017=0.9 · 2018=1 · BLS 3.3

Where Piper Plastics, Chandler falls in its industry

1,821 Machine shops establishments

Safer than 87% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arizona alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 18 Machine shops employers in Arizona.

Piper Plastics, Chandler (106 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 050100150200250 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Piper Plastics, Chandler
Piper Plastics, Chandler (106 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Piper Plastics, Chandler has more employees than the Machine shops median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2018 1.0 0.0 1 0 0
2017 0.9 0.0 1 0 0
2016 1.9 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332710 · AZ · Chandler

1,821 Machine shops employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,594 rated employers in Arizona with headcount on file · 462 employers in Chandler, 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 Grove City location 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR One Source Manufacturing 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Applied Vacuum Technology, LLC 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Secondary Development and Research, Inc. 1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bud of CA Cauliflower AZ 106 FTE
STATE-SIZE Plant 106 FTE
STATE-SIZE Urban Energy Solutions, LLC 106 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schoeller Allibert US, INC 106 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chandler Campus 6,163 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ocotillo Campus 5,428 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6403-64030510 3,265 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2643-64030510-510001 2,446 FTE
NAT-TCR Conroe Office ENB4 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Antioch RMFG 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR UG2 - 520 - Walden Galleria 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR JFSNA at ADM Clinton 1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Whitehouse Lumber Mill 106 FTE
NAT-SIZE Russell Construction Company.Inc. 106 FTE
NAT-SIZE Heritage Manor 106 FTE
NAT-SIZE Peapod S&S Cromwell, Ct 106 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, 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.