Industrial trucks and tractors manufacturing · Arizona

Southwest Products - Surprise

Surprise, AZ · ~142 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Southwest Products - Surprise runs at 163% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Industrial trucks and tractors manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Southwest Products - Surprise: 5.4 TCR = 163% of Industrial trucks and tractors manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Southwest Products - Surprise safety composite

Southwest Products - Surprise scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 67% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 23%), 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)
F 5.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.8

2017→2019

Southwest Products - Surprise injury rate improved

Southwest Products - Surprise's TCR fell 1.8 from 6.4 in 2017 to 4.5 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 6.4 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.11× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=6.4 · 2018=5.3 · 2019=4.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333924 · Surprise, AZ ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.4 · 163% of ind

  • DART 0.6 DART
  • RANK P23
  • PHOTO Raymond-Muscatine, I…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 23 inj
  • SIZE ~142 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Raymond-Muscatine, Inc. (0.1 TCR gap)

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Southwest Products - Surprise in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Southwest Products - Surprise averages 5.4 TCR (163% of the Industrial trucks and tractors manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Southwest Products - Surprise TCR series: 2017=6.4 · 2018=5.3 · 2019=4.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Southwest Products - Surprise falls in its industry

167 Industrial trucks and tractors establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Southwest Products - Surprise (142 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 Products - Surprise
Southwest Products - Surprise (142 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Southwest Products - Surprise has more employees than the Industrial trucks and tractors manufactu median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2019 4.5 0.6 8 0 0
2018 5.3 2.0 8 0 0
2017 6.4 4.5 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333924 · AZ · Surprise

167 Industrial trucks and tractors manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,594 rated employers in Arizona with headcount on file · 130 employers in Surprise, 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 Raymond-Muscatine, Inc. 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Toyota Material Handling Heavy Duty 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR FIBA Technologies - Louisville KY 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Beech Design & Mfg. - Division of Miller Studio, Inc. Beech Lane 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Palo Verde Generating Station- Water Resources Facility 142 FTE
STATE-SIZE PHOENIX - WEST 142 FTE
STATE-SIZE RCC Holdings, LLC (Tempe) 142 FTE
STATE-SIZE DBSI INC 142 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ono-508 913 FTE
CITY-NEAR MMR Constructors, Inc- Mission Critical 657 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2777 432 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Surprise (Parks and Rec) 410 FTE
NAT-TCR 4054-Abs 0018 0571 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Worzalla Publishing 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR POMPANO BEACH 141 NW 16th St 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-Swy 0019 0363 5.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mt McKinley Princess Wilderness Lodge 142 FTE
NAT-SIZE REO Plastics 142 FTE
NAT-SIZE Owen Plant 142 FTE
NAT-SIZE 110 Springbrooke Blvd 142 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: 2019, 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.