Other Urban Transit Systems · Washington

588 - King County Kng Wa

Kent, WA · ~405 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

588 - King County Kng Wa runs at 134% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Other Urban Transit Systems workplace, earning a grade D.

588 - King County Kng Wa: 6.0 TCR = 134% of Other Urban Transit Systems BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

588 - King County Kng Wa safety composite

588 - King County Kng Wa scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 18% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 1%), 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).

F

13/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 1% 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

588 - King County Kng Wa: 4.5 → 7.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 7.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.04× in 2024

588 - King County Kng Wa's TCR rose 3.0 from 4.5 in 2020 to 7.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.04× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485119 · Kent, WA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.0 · 134% of ind

  • DART 6.2 DART
  • RANK #4/4
  • PHOTO 280 - La Cityride Ca
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 41 inj
  • SIZE ~405 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 280 - La Cityride Ca (0.0 TCR gap)

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588 - King County Kng Wa in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 588 - King County Kng Wa averages 6.0 TCR (134% of the Other Urban Transit Systems BLS benchmark).

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

588 - King County Kng Wa TCR series: 2020=4.5 · 2024=7.5 · BLS 4.5

Where 588 - King County Kng Wa falls in its industry

179 Other Urban Transit Systems establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Washington alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 4 Other Urban Transit Systems employers in Washington.

588 - King County Kng Wa (405 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 0100200300400500 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate 588 - King County Kng Wa
588 - King County Kng Wa (405 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 4.0

588 - King County Kng Wa has more employees than the Other Urban Transit Systems median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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 7.5 6.2 26 4 1
2020 4.5 3.3 15 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485119 · WA · Kent

179 Other Urban Transit Systems employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,147 rated employers in Washington with headcount on file · 367 employers in Kent, 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 280 - La Cityride Ca 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 519 - Uber Wav Chicago, Il 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 044 Livermore Ca 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 183 - La County Metro South Ca 6.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE RICHLAND, WA 405 FTE
STATE-SIZE ABOVE THE DIRT LLC 406 FTE
STATE-SIZE Harbor Wholesale (LDC) 406 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2007 406 FTE
CITY-NEAR Blue Origin 3,939 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : BFI4 2,994 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - BFI4 2,961 FTE
CITY-NEAR WA006 2,529 FTE
NAT-TCR 280 - La Cityride Ca 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Carolina Reserve Of Hendersonville 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Ftw South Office 901 Altamesa Blvd 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Tavern 4&5 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE 72 Hin1000 405 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bway Chicago 405 FTE
NAT-SIZE Paul Reed Smith Guitars 405 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fred Haas Toyota World 405 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, 2020. 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.