Garbage cans, light gauge metal, manufacturing · Washington

SWS Equipment

Spokane Valley, WA · ~54 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

SWS Equipment runs at 247% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Garbage cans, light gauge metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

SWS Equipment: 8.2 TCR = 247% of Garbage cans, light gauge metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

SWS Equipment safety composite

SWS Equipment scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 26%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% 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

−6.1

2017→2023

SWS Equipment injury rate improved

SWS Equipment's TCR fell 6.1 from 11.6 in 2017 to 5.5 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 14.1 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=11.6 · 2019=7.8 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=10.0 · 2022=14.1 · 2023=5.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332439 · Spokane Valley, WA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.2 · 247% of ind

  • DART 2.7 DART
  • RANK P26
  • PHOTO Container Technologi…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~54 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Container Technologies Industries, LLC (0.1 TCR gap)

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SWS Equipment in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows SWS Equipment averages 8.2 TCR (247% of the Garbage cans, light gauge metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

SWS Equipment TCR series: 2017=11.6 · 2019=7.8 · 2020=0 · 2021=10 · 2022=14.1 · 2023=5.5 · BLS 3.3

Where SWS Equipment falls in its industry

175 Garbage cans, light gauge meta establishments

Safer than 26% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
SWS Equipment (54 employees, TCR 8.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate SWS Equipment
SWS Equipment (54 employees, TCR 8.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 4.7

SWS Equipment has fewer employees than the Garbage cans, light gauge metal, manufac median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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
2023 5.5 2.7 4 0 0
2022 14.1 10.6 8 0 0
2021 10.0 4.0 5 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 7.8 5.2 3 0 0
2017 11.6 7.0 4 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332439 · WA · Spokane Valley

175 Garbage cans, light gauge metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,147 rated employers in Washington with headcount on file · 176 employers in Spokane Valley, WA · 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 Container Technologies Industries, LLC 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wastequip Lockeford 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Accurate Metal Fabricating 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cleveland Steel Container Corporation - Peotone 7.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Seneca Foods, Dayton, WA Plant 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fallout 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Briarwood Farms 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE FV Frontier Explorer 54 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kaiser Aluminum - Trentwood 851 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kaiser Trentwood 829 FTE
CITY-NEAR Trentwood 777 FTE
CITY-NEAR MultiCare Valley Hospital 776 FTE
NAT-TCR Beltrami County Jail 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Alter Metal Recycling - Madison 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Unified Insulation Systems, LLC 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Consolidated Electrical Distributors, Inc. (PC7125) 8.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hutchinson Health and Rehab 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Component Manufacturing Company - Plant 2 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fort Orange Press, Inc. 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Apex Plastics 54 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2017. 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.