Fasteners (e.g., bolts, nuts, rivets, screws) merchant wholesalers · Arizona

Valley Forge and Bolt Mfg

Phoenix, AZ · ~94 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.6
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Valley Forge and Bolt Mfg runs at 164% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Fasteners (e.g., bolts, nuts, rivets, screws) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Valley Forge and Bolt Mfg: 3.6 TCR = 164% of Fasteners (e.g., bolts, nuts, rivets, screws) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Valley Forge and Bolt Mfg safety composite

Valley Forge and Bolt Mfg scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Valley Forge and Bolt Mfg: 3.0 → 4.2 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 4.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.18× in 2020

Valley Forge and Bolt Mfg's TCR rose 1.3 from 3.0 in 2019 to 4.2 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.18× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423710 · Phoenix, AZ ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.6 · 164% of ind

  • DART 4.2 DART
  • RANK #4/7
  • PHOTO Plant City Retail Su…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~94 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Plant City Retail Support Center - Ace Hardware (0.0 TCR gap)

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Valley Forge and Bolt Mfg in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Valley Forge and Bolt Mfg averages 3.6 TCR (164% of the Fasteners (e.g., bolts, nuts, rivets, screws) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Valley Forge and Bolt Mfg TCR series: 2019=3 · 2020=4.2 · BLS 2.2

Where Valley Forge and Bolt Mfg falls in its industry

449 Fasteners (e.g., bolts, nuts, establishments

Safer than 40% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arizona alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 7 Fasteners (e.g., bolts, nuts, employers in Arizona.

Valley Forge and Bolt Mfg (94 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 Valley Forge and Bolt Mfg
Valley Forge and Bolt Mfg (94 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Valley Forge and Bolt Mfg has more employees than the Fasteners (e.g., bolts, nuts, rivets, sc median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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
2020 4.2 4.2 4 0 0
2019 3.0 3.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423710 · AZ · Phoenix

449 Fasteners (e.g., bolts, nuts, rivets, screws) merchant wholesalers 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 Plant City Retail Support Center - Ace Hardware 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Endries International Inc SEDC 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Hillman Group : Jacksonville DC, FL 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ace Hardware Retail Support Center, Colorado Springs 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE MFIB 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gilbane Building Company Arizona 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE J. Banicki Construction Company 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE 7319_16819 94 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 Home 2 Suites - Fayetteville 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Amazon Transportation Services : MEM5 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Enterprise Rent-A-Car 03VS 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR GWIT - Main Janitorial & Hospital 3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Fiberguide Industries 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE L3 Unidyne National City 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dunbar Center 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corsica Hills Center 94 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: 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.