Machine shops · Washington

Absolute Manufacturing

Arlington, WA · ~93 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Absolute Manufacturing runs at 94% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Machine shops workplace, earning a grade C.

Absolute Manufacturing: 3.1 TCR = 94% of Machine shops BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Absolute Manufacturing safety composite

Absolute Manufacturing scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 56% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 43%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% 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

Absolute Manufacturing: 1.2 → 5.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.4× in 2024

Absolute Manufacturing's TCR rose 3.8 from 1.2 in 2019 to 5.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.4× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332710 · Arlington, WA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.1 · 94% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #12/30
  • PHOTO Merrill Tool & Water…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~93 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Merrill Tool & Water Jet, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Absolute Manufacturing in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Absolute Manufacturing averages 3.1 TCR (94% of the Machine shops BLS benchmark).

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

Absolute Manufacturing TCR series: 2019=1.2 · 2024=5 · BLS 3.3

Where Absolute Manufacturing falls in its industry

1,821 Machine shops establishments

Safer than 56% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Washington alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 30 Machine shops employers in Washington.

Absolute Manufacturing (93 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 050100150200250 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Absolute Manufacturing
Absolute Manufacturing (93 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Absolute Manufacturing has more employees than the Machine shops median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2024 5.0 1.3 4 0 0
2019 1.2 1.2 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332710 · WA · Arlington

1,821 Machine shops employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,147 rated employers in Washington with headcount on file · 58 employers in Arlington, 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 Merrill Tool & Water Jet, LLC 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Turn-All Machine & Gear Company 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Orizon Fenton MO 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR CassMac LLC 3.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE TLC Orchards LLC 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE C/P Starbound 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE Avista Spokane Valley 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE McClure and Sons 93 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - PAE2 2,265 FTE
CITY-NEAR Angel of the Winds Casino Resort 649 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 3757 325 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3757 300 FTE
NAT-TCR Reily Foods Company - Jfg 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Bluco 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Owensboro Municipal Utilities 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Nexion Health, Inc 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE 19-Usf-Olf Valley Mall 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hendricks Power Cooperative 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cal-Maine Foods, Inc. 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tri Pointe Homes Charlotte 93 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, 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.