Discount Department Stores · Washington

1284 - Northgate

Seattle, WA · ~306 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

1284 - Northgate runs at 206% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Discount Department Stores workplace, earning a grade F.

1284 - Northgate: 7.0 TCR = 206% of Discount Department Stores BLS 3.4 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

1284 - Northgate safety composite

1284 - Northgate scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 60% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 25%), 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.2

2019→2024

1284 - Northgate injury rate improved

1284 - Northgate's TCR fell 2.2 from 3.8 in 2019 to 1.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 23.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.08× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=3.8 · 2020=4.3 · 2021=6.0 · 2022=23.7 · 2023=2.6 · 2024=1.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 7.0 · 206% of ind

  • DART 0.5 DART
  • RANK #75/117
  • PHOTO 2226 - Cleveland West
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 30 inj
  • SIZE ~306 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 2226 - Cleveland West (0.0 TCR gap)

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1284 - Northgate in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 1284 - Northgate averages 7.0 TCR (206% of the Discount Department Stores BLS benchmark).

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

1284 - Northgate TCR series: 2019=3.8 · 2020=4.3 · 2021=6 · 2022=23.7 · 2023=2.6 · 2024=1.6 · BLS 3.4

Where 1284 - Northgate falls in its industry

4,991 Discount Department Stores establishments

Safer than 25% 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 #75 safest of 117 Discount Department Stores employers in Washington.

1284 - Northgate (306 employees, TCR 7.0) 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 1284 - Northgate
1284 - Northgate (306 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4

1284 - Northgate 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 1.6 0.5 3 0 0
2023 2.6 1.6 4 1 0
2022 23.7 23.1 3 41 0
2021 6.0 3.7 5 8 0
2020 4.3 2.7 8 0 0
2019 3.8 2.8 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452112 · WA · Seattle

4,991 Discount Department Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,147 rated employers in Washington with headcount on file · 1,279 employers in Seattle, 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 2226 - Cleveland West 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 3428 - Charleston King Street 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ross store 9 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0004 - Duluth 7.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE WM 5628 306 FTE
STATE-SIZE DGS Aviation Services : SEA - Seattle 306 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bellevue - Ericsson 306 FTE
STATE-SIZE Getty Images Seattle 306 FTE
CITY-NEAR UW Seattle 32,378 FTE
CITY-NEAR The United States of America 25,000 FTE
CITY-NEAR Starz Entertainment 25,000 FTE
CITY-NEAR UW Medical Center - Montlake and NW 11,307 FTE
NAT-TCR 2226 - Cleveland West 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Pt-Alexian Brs Mc 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Burbank - Public Works - Field Services/Street Maintenance 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Polymer Adhesives Sealant Systems, LLC 7.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE 2342 - Cedar Park 306 FTE
NAT-SIZE West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine 306 FTE
NAT-SIZE SSI Technologies Plainfield 306 FTE
NAT-SIZE Moravian Manors Inc 306 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.

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

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