Industrial Machinery and Equipment Merchant Wholesalers · Arizona

Vern Lewis Welding

Avondale, AZ · ~232 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Vern Lewis Welding runs at 115% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Industrial Machinery and Equipment Merchant Wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

Vern Lewis Welding: 2.5 TCR = 115% of Industrial Machinery and Equipment Merchant Wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Vern Lewis Welding safety composite

Vern Lewis Welding scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 13%), 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 2.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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

Vern Lewis Welding: 3.3 → 4.3 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 4.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.69× in 2019

Vern Lewis Welding's TCR rose 0.9 from 3.3 in 2016 to 4.3 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 1.69× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423830 · Avondale, AZ ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.5 · 115% of ind

  • DART 4.3 DART
  • RANK #4/7
  • PHOTO McCormick Equipment …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~232 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: McCormick Equipment Co., Inc. - Ohio Branch Offices (0.0 TCR gap)

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Vern Lewis Welding in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Vern Lewis Welding averages 2.5 TCR (115% of the Industrial Machinery and Equipment Merchant Wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Vern Lewis Welding TCR series: 2016=3.3 · 2018=0 · 2019=4.3 · BLS 2.2

Where Vern Lewis Welding falls in its industry

911 Industrial Machinery and Equip establishments

Safer than 50% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

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 Industrial Machinery and Equip employers in Arizona.

Vern Lewis Welding (232 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 0200400600800 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Vern Lewis Welding
Vern Lewis Welding (232 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Vern Lewis Welding has more employees than the Industrial Machinery and Equipment Merch median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2019 4.3 4.3 2 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 3.3 1.6 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423830 · AZ · Avondale

911 Industrial Machinery and Equipment Merchant Wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,594 rated employers in Arizona with headcount on file · 78 employers in Avondale, 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 McCormick Equipment Co., Inc. - Ohio Branch Offices 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR ToyotaLift NE - BET 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Warrior Tractor - Huntsville 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Raymond Storage Concepts - Columbus 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lettuce 232 FTE
STATE-SIZE FRESH HARVEST, INC 232 FTE
STATE-SIZE Holsum Bakery of Tolleson, LLC 232 FTE
STATE-SIZE 10246 Scottsdale 232 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ono-501 914 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2554 371 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2554 370 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0691 - AVONDALE AZ WHSE 351 FTE
NAT-TCR MARINEMAX East INC-HM2 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Dairy Fresh - High Point 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Shopko Store #175 (Lincoln, NE (SouthEast)) 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Weaver Manufacturing, Inc. 2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE LEAVENWORTH 232 FTE
NAT-SIZE Winter Haven Facility 232 FTE
NAT-SIZE Capstan Atlantic 232 FTE
NAT-SIZE CNS BFL Clinic/Corporate Admin/Marketing 232 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: 2019, 2018, 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.