Motor vehicle merchant wholesalers · Arizona

Vanguard-Phoenix

Phoenix, AZ · ~113 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Vanguard-Phoenix runs at 249% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Motor vehicle merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Vanguard-Phoenix: 5.5 TCR = 249% of Motor vehicle merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Vanguard-Phoenix safety composite

Vanguard-Phoenix scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 62% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 33%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% 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

2019→2024

Vanguard-Phoenix injury rate improved

Vanguard-Phoenix's TCR fell 6.1 from 7.0 in 2019 to 0.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 7.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.16× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=7.0 · 2020=7.5 · 2023=6.5 · 2024=0.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423110 · Phoenix, AZ ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 5.5 · 249% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #13/22
  • PHOTO Vanguard Truck Cente…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~113 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Vanguard Truck Center Conover (0.0 TCR gap)

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Vanguard-Phoenix in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Vanguard-Phoenix averages 5.5 TCR (249% of the Motor vehicle merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Vanguard-Phoenix TCR series: 2019=7 · 2020=7.5 · 2023=6.5 · 2024=0.9 · BLS 2.2

Where Vanguard-Phoenix falls in its industry

1,333 Motor vehicle merchant wholesa establishments

Safer than 33% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arizona alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 22 Motor vehicle merchant wholesa employers in Arizona.

Vanguard-Phoenix (113 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.3 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Vanguard-Phoenix
Vanguard-Phoenix (113 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Vanguard-Phoenix has more employees than the Motor vehicle merchant wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.3. 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 0.9 0.9 1 0 0
2023 6.5 3.7 6 1 0
2020 7.5 1.1 7 0 0
2019 7.0 5.0 6 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423110 · AZ · Phoenix

1,333 Motor vehicle 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 Vanguard Truck Center Conover 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0574 MANHEIM KEYSTONE 488 FIREHOUSE RD 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR ADESA Phoenix 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stoops Freightliner TC - Wayne 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Paradise Valley 113 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tohono Oddham Utility Authority 113 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mesa Greenfield Water Treatment Plant 113 FTE
STATE-SIZE National Powerline LLC - National Powerline 113 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 Lake Norman Reg Med Ctr 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR US Tower Corp 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Sacramento District Office 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 1545 - Colerain 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Northern Regional Operations 113 FTE
NAT-SIZE 019m - Rockford Il Rntl 113 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rogers Corporation EMS-W 113 FTE
NAT-SIZE Micro Gauge 113 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, 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.