Air filters, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing · Arizona

Special Devices Inc.

Mesa, AZ · ~343 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.0
Avg TCR
5.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Special Devices Inc. runs at 19% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Air filters, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Special Devices Inc.: 1.0 TCR = 19% of Air filters, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS 5.4 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Special Devices Inc. safety composite

Special Devices Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 90% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

71/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% 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%).

Special Devices Inc. held a steady TCR band

Special Devices Inc.'s TCR held near 0.3 from 1.1 in 2016 to 0.8 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 1.4 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.83× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.1 · 2017=0.4 · 2018=1.4 · 2019=1.3 · 2020=0.8 · 2021=0.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336390 · Mesa, AZ AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.0 · 19% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #3/6
  • PHOTO federal-mogul 1273
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~343 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: federal-mogul 1273 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Special Devices Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Special Devices Inc. averages 1.0 TCR (19% of the Air filters, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Special Devices Inc. TCR series: 2016=1.1 · 2017=0.4 · 2018=1.4 · 2019=1.3 · 2020=0.8 · 2021=0.8 · BLS 5.4

Where Special Devices Inc. falls in its industry

772 Air filters, automotive, truck establishments

Safer than 90% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arizona alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 6 Air filters, automotive, truck employers in Arizona.

Special Devices Inc. (343 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 154 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Special Devices Inc.
Special Devices Inc. (343 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 154 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Special Devices Inc. has more employees than the Air filters, automotive, truck, and bus, median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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
2021 0.8 0.8 2 0 0
2020 0.8 0.8 2 0 0
2019 1.3 0.7 3 1 0
2018 1.4 1.1 4 1 0
2017 0.4 0.4 2 0 0
2016 1.1 0.9 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336390 · AZ · Mesa

772 Air filters, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,594 rated employers in Arizona with headcount on file · 565 employers in Mesa, 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 federal-mogul 1273 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Aisin Light Metals, LLC 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mahle Behr Dayton 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Anderson IES 1.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE 2113 343 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3730 343 FTE
STATE-SIZE Scottsdale Mfg 342 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3799 344 FTE
CITY-NEAR AZ001 4,193 FTE
CITY-NEAR AZAPW9668 AZA - RAMP PAX 3,181 FTE
CITY-NEAR 04-290370278-2 1,964 FTE
CITY-NEAR Police Department H210 1,651 FTE
NAT-TCR Drury Inn & Suites - St. Louis Airport 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 142 Carson, CA 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Holiday Inn Express - SW 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Clear View Building Services, Inc. 1.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Tyler Area Office 343 FTE
NAT-SIZE Anaheim Hauling 343 FTE
NAT-SIZE MN Dept of Corrections - Rush City 343 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nursing Home 343 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.