Steel manufacturing · Arizona

Southwest Fabrication LLC

Phoenix, AZ · ~68 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Southwest Fabrication LLC runs at 197% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Steel manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Southwest Fabrication LLC: 6.5 TCR = 197% of Steel manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Southwest Fabrication LLC safety composite

Southwest Fabrication LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 19%), 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)
F 6.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

Southwest Fabrication LLC: 1.7 → 7.4 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 11.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.38× in 2024

Southwest Fabrication LLC's TCR rose 5.7 from 1.7 in 2021 to 7.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 11.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.38× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331110 · Phoenix, AZ ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.5 · 197% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK #6/6
  • PHOTO Fairfield Works - Fl…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~68 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fairfield Works - Flat Rolled (0.0 TCR gap)

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Southwest Fabrication LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Southwest Fabrication LLC averages 6.5 TCR (197% of the Steel manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Southwest Fabrication LLC TCR series: 2021=1.7 · 2022=5.1 · 2023=11.8 · 2024=7.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Southwest Fabrication LLC falls in its industry

416 Steel manufacturing establishments

Safer than 19% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arizona alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 6 Steel manufacturing employers in Arizona.

Southwest Fabrication LLC (68 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 155 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Southwest Fabrication LLC
Southwest Fabrication LLC (68 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 155 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Southwest Fabrication LLC has fewer employees than the Steel manufacturing 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 7.4 2.5 6 0 0
2023 11.8 11.8 7 0 0
2022 5.1 0.0 3 0 0
2021 1.7 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331110 · AZ · Phoenix

416 Steel manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,594 rated employers in Arizona with headcount on file · 2,630 employers in Phoenix, 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 Fairfield Works - Flat Rolled 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR MASW 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Select Steel Inc 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gerdau Special Steel North America-Jackson Mi. Mill 6.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Surprise 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE Meritage Homes of Tennessee - Nashville Division 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE Premier Building Group 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE Norstan Communications, Inc.(Intel-Chandler,AZ)* 68 FTE
CITY-NEAR Maricopa County 15,504 FTE
CITY-NEAR Phoenix Children's Hospital 7,575 FTE
CITY-NEAR All Company 6,261 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6403-64030500 6,153 FTE
NAT-TCR Jame Roll Form Products, LLC 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - ONT8 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Garden Path Elder Living, Inc dba Bradley House 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR ILSCO Extrusions 6.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Savannah State University 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ohio Living - Greater Columbus 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Valmet - Lenox 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dragonfly Logistics Service, LLC. 68 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, 2022, 2021. 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.