Bakery machinery and equipment manufacturing · Washington

Baxter Manufacturing

Orting, WA · ~87 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Baxter Manufacturing runs at 122% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Bakery machinery and equipment manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Baxter Manufacturing: 4.0 TCR = 122% of Bakery machinery and equipment manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Baxter Manufacturing safety composite

Baxter Manufacturing 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 4.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.19 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%).

Baxter Manufacturing held a steady TCR band

Baxter Manufacturing's TCR held near 0.1 from 4.5 in 2022 to 4.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 4.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.54× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=4.5 · 2023=3.3 · 2024=4.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333241 · Orting, WA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.0 · 122% of ind

  • DART 2.2 DART
  • RANK #6/11
  • PHOTO Marchant Schmidt
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~87 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Marchant Schmidt (0.0 TCR gap)

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Baxter Manufacturing in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Baxter Manufacturing averages 4.0 TCR (122% of the Bakery machinery and equipment manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Baxter Manufacturing TCR series: 2022=4.5 · 2023=3.3 · 2024=4.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Baxter Manufacturing falls in its industry

215 Bakery machinery and equipment establishments

Safer than 36% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Washington alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 11 Bakery machinery and equipment employers in Washington.

Baxter Manufacturing (87 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Baxter Manufacturing
Baxter Manufacturing (87 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Baxter Manufacturing has more employees than the Bakery machinery and equipment manufactu median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 4.4 2.2 4 0 0
2023 3.3 3.3 3 0 0
2022 4.5 2.2 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333241 · WA · Orting

215 Bakery machinery and equipment manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,147 rated employers in Washington with headcount on file · 12 employers in Orting, 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 Marchant Schmidt 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR RELCO LLC 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Apeks LLC 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR SirSteak Machinery, Inc 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Shelton, WA 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE Maintenance & Operations 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE Grady Excavating, Inc. 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hermanson - Fab Shop 87 FTE
CITY-NEAR CBC 163 FTE
CITY-NEAR Washington Soldiers Home 152 FTE
CITY-NEAR SWY-0027-0027-01844 FAC-01844-ORTING-WA 115 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6400-SWY-0027-0027-01844 108 FTE
NAT-TCR Brentland Woods 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Koba Corp 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Charlotte Country Day School 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - MCO4 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE 3413 - Cedar Mill 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE 3404 - Brooklyn Flatbush and Church 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE Luu Delivery Service 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hi-Grade Egg Producers & Processors, Loda 87 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. 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.