Water distribution for irrigation · Arizona

Valley Water Users

Tempe, AZ · ~357 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 Water Users runs at 65% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Water distribution for irrigation workplace, earning a grade B.

Valley Water Users: 0.8 TCR = 65% of Water distribution for irrigation BLS 1.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Valley Water Users safety composite

Valley Water Users scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 94% 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

73/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 94% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.78 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%).

Rising injury rate

Valley Water Users: 0.3 → 1.3 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 1.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1× in 2018

Valley Water Users's TCR rose 1.0 from 0.3 in 2016 to 1.3 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 221310 · Tempe, AZ AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 0.8 · 65% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #5/30
  • PHOTO Sacramento Suburban …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~357 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sacramento Suburban Water District (0.0 TCR gap)

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Valley Water Users in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Valley Water Users averages 0.8 TCR (65% of the Water distribution for irrigation BLS benchmark).

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

Valley Water Users TCR series: 2016=0.3 · 2017=0.8 · 2018=1.3 · BLS 1.2

Where Valley Water Users falls in its industry

727 Water distribution for irrigat establishments

Safer than 94% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arizona alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 30 Water distribution for irrigat employers in Arizona.

Valley Water Users (357 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.2 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Valley Water Users
Valley Water Users (357 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Valley Water Users has more employees than the Water distribution for irrigation median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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
2018 1.3 0.8 5 0 0
2017 0.8 0.0 2 1 0
2016 0.3 0.3 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

221310 · AZ · Tempe

727 Water distribution for irrigation 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 Sacramento Suburban Water District 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wright Patterson AFB 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Virgina American Water - Hopewell District 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Premium Waters Jackson 0.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Arizona JBH Operation 357 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 2113 357 FTE
STATE-SIZE ELS Companies Inc. 357 FTE
STATE-SIZE SimonMed Imaging-Corporate 357 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 Rocky Hill Branch 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Harrisburg CPW 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Newport Building 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Clover Technologies Group, LLC - Ithaca Union 0.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Morgan Olson Plant 1 357 FTE
NAT-SIZE Airo Division 357 FTE
NAT-SIZE UGN-Somerset 357 FTE
NAT-SIZE Los Angeles (Cacmr) 357 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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