Discount Department Stores · Washington

0348 - Bellingham

Bellingham, WA · ~213 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.7
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

0348 - Bellingham runs at 166% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Discount Department Stores workplace, earning a grade D.

0348 - Bellingham: 5.7 TCR = 166% of Discount Department Stores BLS 3.4 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

0348 - Bellingham safety composite

0348 - Bellingham scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 31%), 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

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% 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

0348 - Bellingham: 2.6 → 3.3 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 11.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.59× in 2024

0348 - Bellingham's TCR rose 0.7 from 2.6 in 2019 to 3.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 11.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.59× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452112 · Bellingham, WA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.7 · 166% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK #55/117
  • PHOTO 0654 - Largo
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~213 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 0654 - Largo (0.0 TCR gap)

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0348 - Bellingham in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 0348 - Bellingham averages 5.7 TCR (166% of the Discount Department Stores BLS benchmark).

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

0348 - Bellingham TCR series: 2019=2.6 · 2020=3.5 · 2021=9.8 · 2022=11.2 · 2023=3.4 · 2024=3.3 · BLS 3.4

Where 0348 - Bellingham falls in its industry

4,991 Discount Department Stores establishments

Safer than 37% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Washington alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #55 safest of 117 Discount Department Stores employers in Washington.

0348 - Bellingham (213 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 0348 - Bellingham
0348 - Bellingham (213 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4

0348 - Bellingham has more employees than the Discount Department Stores median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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 3.3 3.3 3 1 0
2023 3.4 1.7 3 1 0
2022 11.2 10.4 2 11 0
2021 9.8 8.2 7 5 0
2020 3.5 2.6 3 1 0
2019 2.6 2.6 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452112 · WA · Bellingham

4,991 Discount Department Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,147 rated employers in Washington with headcount on file · 210 employers in Bellingham, WA · 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 0654 - Largo 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1182 - Greenville 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR WM 473 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ross store 2017 5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cowiche Growers Inc 213 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lobo Rojo Orchards LLC 213 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 2319 213 FTE
STATE-SIZE 0103 - CLARKSTON WA WHSE 213 FTE
CITY-NEAR Western Washington University 3,794 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Joseph Medical Center Main Campus 2,537 FTE
CITY-NEAR North American Operations - Matrix Service Inc. 2,063 FTE
CITY-NEAR PHMG SJMC Clinics 864 FTE
NAT-TCR 0654 - Largo 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 1182 - Greenville 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Marriott's MountainSide 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR At Home Stores #223 5.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE 0366 - Lexington 213 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0055 - Medallion 213 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2021 - Arvada South 213 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2601 - Petaluma 213 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.