Medical Transport · Arizona

Safford AmbulanceOperations

Safford, AZ · ~22 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.6
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Safford AmbulanceOperations runs at 227% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Medical Transport workplace, earning a grade F.

Safford AmbulanceOperations: 8.6 TCR = 227% of Medical Transport BLS 3.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Safford AmbulanceOperations safety composite

Safford AmbulanceOperations scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 40%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 8.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% of industry peers

DART rate
D 5.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% 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

Safford AmbulanceOperations: 5.3 → 11.9 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 11.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.69× in 2020

Safford AmbulanceOperations's TCR rose 6.6 from 5.3 in 2019 to 11.9 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0.69× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621910 · Safford, AZ ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.6 · 227% of ind

  • DART 6.0 DART
  • RANK #10/31
  • PHOTO Life EMS Inc.-Kent
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Life EMS Inc.-Kent (0.0 TCR gap)

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Safford AmbulanceOperations in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Safford AmbulanceOperations averages 8.6 TCR (227% of the Medical Transport BLS benchmark).

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

Safford AmbulanceOperations TCR series: 2019=5.3 · 2020=11.9 · BLS 3.8

Where Safford AmbulanceOperations falls in its industry

976 Medical Transport establishments

Safer than 46% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 8.3.

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 31 Medical Transport employers in Arizona.

Safford AmbulanceOperations (22 employees, TCR 8.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 8.3 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Safford AmbulanceOperations
Safford AmbulanceOperations (22 employees, TCR 8.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 8.3

Safford AmbulanceOperations has fewer employees than the Medical Transport median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 8.3. 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
2020 11.9 6.0 1 1 0
2019 5.3 0.0 0 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621910 · AZ · Safford

976 Medical Transport employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,594 rated employers in Arizona with headcount on file · 19 employers in Safford, 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 Life EMS Inc.-Kent 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR STECF Station 2 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Clarkston 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 15 Burke Ln 8.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lehi Farm 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Trulieve - El Mirage 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stanfield Farm 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kammann & Son Farms LLC 22 FTE
CITY-NEAR FCI Safford 522 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1149 346 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1149 346 FTE
CITY-NEAR ASPC-Safford 295 FTE
NAT-TCR BlueLinx Corporation Cincinnati 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Northgate Residence 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Priority Freight Handling, Inc 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Bye-Rite Trailer and Fabrication Inc. 8.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE 7057-Enphg-Highmark Camp Hill 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Advanced Disposal - St. Cloud 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Zorlu MFG Co, LLC 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Reeve Cattle Company 22 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: 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.