Aircraft manufacturing · Arizona

Sargent Aerospace & Defense - Tucson, AZ

Tucson, AZ · ~325 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sargent Aerospace & Defense - Tucson, AZ runs at 47% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Aircraft manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Sargent Aerospace & Defense - Tucson, AZ: 1.5 TCR = 47% of Aircraft manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sargent Aerospace & Defense - Tucson, AZ safety composite

Sargent Aerospace & Defense - Tucson, AZ scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 22%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 1.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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

Sargent Aerospace & Defense - Tucson, AZ: 0.3 → 2.8 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 2.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.19× in 2018

Sargent Aerospace & Defense - Tucson, AZ's TCR rose 2.5 from 0.3 in 2017 to 2.8 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.19× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336411 · Tucson, AZ AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.5 · 47% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #11/18
  • PHOTO Edge Autonomy - SLO
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~325 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Edge Autonomy - SLO (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sargent Aerospace & Defense - Tucson, AZ in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sargent Aerospace & Defense - Tucson, AZ averages 1.5 TCR (47% of the Aircraft manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Sargent Aerospace & Defense - Tucson, AZ TCR series: 2017=0.3 · 2018=2.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Sargent Aerospace & Defense - Tucson, AZ falls in its industry

390 Aircraft manufacturing establishments

Safer than 54% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arizona alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 18 Aircraft manufacturing employers in Arizona.

Sargent Aerospace & Defense - Tucson, AZ (325 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 151 employees and a TCR of 1.7 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 02,0004,0006,0008,00010,000 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Sargent Aerospace & Defense - Tucson, AZ
Sargent Aerospace & Defense - Tucson, AZ (325 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 151 employees and a TCR of 1.7

Sargent Aerospace & Defense - Tucson, AZ has more employees than the Aircraft manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.7. 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
2018 2.8 1.8 9 0 0
2017 0.3 0.3 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336411 · AZ · Tucson

390 Aircraft manufacturing 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 Edge Autonomy - SLO 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Euravia North America 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Supply Chain : Victorville, CA 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lockheed Martin Corporation US MD Pax River Ranch Rd (3935) 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Haskins Electric Arizona 325 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pacific Scientific Energetic Materials Company 325 FTE
STATE-SIZE Buckeye IG 325 FTE
STATE-SIZE West Phoenix AZ FXFE-WPX 325 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 Bernhard MCC L.L.C. MLA 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR JIS at Kraton Polymers Belpre 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR BUNN - Ash Grove 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Fashion Centre Pentagon City 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Doctors Medical Center, Inc. 325 FTE
NAT-SIZE RCX Nebraska 325 FTE
NAT-SIZE Horsham Pa Office 325 FTE
NAT-SIZE #630 Wall Shoprite 325 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.