Adhesives (except asphalt, dental, gypsum base) manufacturing · Arizona

QEP Co., Inc.

Tolleson, AZ · ~27 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

QEP Co., Inc. runs at 97% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Adhesives (except asphalt, dental, gypsum base) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

QEP Co., Inc.: 3.2 TCR = 97% of Adhesives (except asphalt, dental, gypsum base) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

QEP Co., Inc. safety composite

QEP Co., Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 5%), 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).

F

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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%).

Rising injury rate

QEP Co., Inc.: 0.0 → 6.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 6.4 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2024

QEP Co., Inc.'s TCR rose 6.4 from 0.0 in 2023 to 6.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325520 · Tolleson, AZ AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.2 · 97% of ind

  • DART 6.4 DART
  • RANK P40
  • PHOTO ICP Choice Adhesives…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ICP Choice Adhesives Carroll (0.0 TCR gap)

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QEP Co., Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows QEP Co., Inc. averages 3.2 TCR (97% of the Adhesives (except asphalt, dental, gypsum base) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

QEP Co., Inc. TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=6.4 · BLS 3.3

Where QEP Co., Inc. falls in its industry

287 Adhesives (except asphalt, den establishments

Safer than 40% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
QEP Co., Inc. (27 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate QEP Co., Inc.
QEP Co., Inc. (27 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.7

QEP Co., Inc. has fewer employees than the Adhesives (except asphalt, dental, gypsu median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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 6.4 6.4 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325520 · AZ · Tolleson

287 Adhesives (except asphalt, dental, gypsum base) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,594 rated employers in Arizona with headcount on file · 153 employers in Tolleson, 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 ICP Choice Adhesives Carroll 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR deVan Sealants, Inc. 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR MPM - New Smynra Beach 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Henkel Corporation-Memphis 3.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE TONOPAH BARNS 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE SEMCO SOUTH COOLING 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Shop and Warehouse 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE New Harquahala Generating Company 27 FTE
CITY-NEAR JBS Tolleson Inc 1,848 FTE
CITY-NEAR ABS-0017-0016-06501 FAC-06501-TOLLESON-AZ 740 FTE
CITY-NEAR Windigo Logistics 662 FTE
CITY-NEAR Br 125 - Communications Test Design Inc 566 FTE
NAT-TCR SIMSBURY 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Honolulu, HI 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Hampton Embassy Suites 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR R. S. Fawcett, Inc. 3.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Oak Creek WI 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lee Building Company 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Glik Holdings LLC 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shoemaker MFG Solutions, Inc. 27 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. 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.