Electric power generation, fossil fuel (e.g., coal, oil, gas) · Arizona

Valley Plants and Offices

Tempe, AZ · ~4,518 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
0.8
Avg TCR
1.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Valley Plants and Offices runs at 70% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Electric power generation, fossil fuel (e.g., coal, oil, gas) workplace, earning a grade B.

Valley Plants and Offices: 0.8 TCR = 70% of Electric power generation, fossil fuel (e.g., coal, oil, gas) BLS 1.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Valley Plants and Offices safety composite

Valley Plants and Offices scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 73% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 36%), 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

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 0.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% 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%).

Valley Plants and Offices held a steady TCR band

Valley Plants and Offices's TCR held near 0.1 from 0.8 in 2016 to 0.9 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.8× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.8 · 2017=0.8 · 2018=0.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 221112 · Tempe, AZ AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade B · TCR 0.8 · 70% of ind

  • DART 0.7 DART
  • RANK #2/13
  • PHOTO PSEG Power Fossil
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 90 inj
  • SIZE ~4,518 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: PSEG Power Fossil (0.0 TCR gap)

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Valley Plants and Offices in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Valley Plants and Offices averages 0.8 TCR (70% of the Electric power generation, fossil fuel (e.g., coal, oil, gas) BLS benchmark).

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

Valley Plants and Offices TCR series: 2016=0.8 · 2017=0.8 · 2018=0.9 · BLS 1.2

Where Valley Plants and Offices falls in its industry

846 Electric power generation, fos establishments

Safer than 73% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arizona alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 13 Electric power generation, fos employers in Arizona.

Valley Plants and Offices (4,518 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 59 employees and a TCR of 1.5 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Valley Plants and Offices
Valley Plants and Offices (4,518 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 59 employees and a TCR of 1.5

Valley Plants and Offices has more employees than the Electric power generation, fossil fuel ( median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.5. 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
2018 0.9 0.7 39 2 0
2017 0.8 0.2 22 11 0
2016 0.8 0.3 29 6 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

221112 · AZ · Tempe

846 Electric power generation, fossil fuel (e.g., coal, oil, gas) 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 PSEG Power Fossil 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR La Paloma Generating Plant 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chattahoochee 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Plant Barry - APC 0.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE AZ-02 4,429 FTE
STATE-SIZE 202376 4,627 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tucson Medical Center 4,407 FTE
STATE-SIZE SALT RIVER PROJECT DISTRICT VALLEY 4,655 FTE
CITY-NEAR IES Communications, LLC 3,432 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Tempe 2,862 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sundt Construction Inc 2,582 FTE
CITY-NEAR HoneywellAZ18 1,900 FTE
NAT-TCR REN121 Richmond 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Janssen Research and Development San Diego 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR DePuy Synthes Development Ctr West Chester 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Des Moines Delaware Service Center 0.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Doctors Hospital at Renaissance 4,521 FTE
NAT-SIZE North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : EWR4 4,514 FTE
NAT-SIZE CA-02 4,525 FTE
NAT-SIZE CA-01 4,525 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.