Soft Drink Manufacturing · Arizona

Tempe VAF

Tempe, AZ · ~165 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Tempe VAF runs at 278% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Soft Drink Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Tempe VAF: 9.2 TCR = 278% of Soft Drink Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tempe VAF safety composite

Tempe VAF scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 15%), 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 9.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% 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%).

TCR Δ

−7.0

2020→2024

Tempe VAF injury rate improved

Tempe VAF's TCR fell 7.0 from 12.2 in 2020 to 5.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 12.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.52× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=12.2 · 2021=9.5 · 2022=7.9 · 2023=11.1 · 2024=5.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 312111 · Tempe, AZ ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 9.2 · 278% of ind

  • DART 4.8 DART
  • RANK #20/22
  • PHOTO Lieb Foods LLC
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 82 inj
  • SIZE ~165 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lieb Foods LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Tempe VAF in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Tempe VAF averages 9.2 TCR (278% of the Soft Drink Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Tempe VAF TCR series: 2020=12.2 · 2021=9.5 · 2022=7.9 · 2023=11.1 · 2024=5.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Tempe VAF falls in its industry

516 Soft Drink Manufacturing establishments

Safer than 15% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arizona alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #20 safest of 22 Soft Drink Manufacturing employers in Arizona.

Tempe VAF (165 employees, TCR 9.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 149 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Tempe VAF
Tempe VAF (165 employees, TCR 9.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 149 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Tempe VAF has more employees than the Soft Drink Manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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 5.2 4.8 13 0 0
2023 11.1 10.4 16 0 0
2022 7.9 6.7 14 0 0
2021 9.5 8.9 17 0 0
2020 12.2 11.1 22 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

312111 · AZ · Tempe

516 Soft Drink Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,594 rated employers in Arizona with headcount on file · 569 employers in Tempe, 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 Lieb Foods LLC 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Elizabethtown - Owensboro Distribution 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Swire Coca-Cola of Bellevue 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Draper VAF 9.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE First Impression Ironworks 165 FTE
STATE-SIZE Phoenix EMS 165 FTE
STATE-SIZE Curtiss-Wright -- Gilbert 165 FTE
STATE-SIZE 49741E - NORTH PHOENIX ZONE 165 FTE
CITY-NEAR SALT RIVER PROJECT DISTRICT VALLEY 4,655 FTE
CITY-NEAR 202376 4,627 FTE
CITY-NEAR Valley Plants and Offices 4,518 FTE
CITY-NEAR IES Communications, LLC 3,432 FTE
NAT-TCR SFO-ITP 9.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Downtown 9.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Husky Rack and Wire - Wireway Location 9.2 TCR
NAT-TCR KEITH Manufacturing Co. 9.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Chromalloy San Diego 165 FTE
NAT-SIZE West Suburban Nursing & Rehabilitation Center 165 FTE
NAT-SIZE 10259 Alameda 165 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pomeroy Living Rochester Skilled Rehabilitation 165 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, 2020. 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.