Cold Storage · Washington

Bellingham Cold Storage

Bellingham, WA · ~154 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.7
Avg TCR
5.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bellingham Cold Storage runs at 133% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cold Storage workplace, earning a grade D.

Bellingham Cold Storage: 7.7 TCR = 133% of Cold Storage BLS 5.8 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bellingham Cold Storage safety composite

Bellingham Cold Storage scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 11%), 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Bellingham Cold Storage: 7.4 → 9.8 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 13.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.95× in 2024

Bellingham Cold Storage's TCR rose 2.4 from 7.4 in 2019 to 9.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 13.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.95× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 493120 · Bellingham, WA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 7.7 · 133% of ind

  • DART 7.4 DART
  • RANK #22/32
  • PHOTO WM 6096
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 64 inj
  • SIZE ~154 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: WM 6096 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bellingham Cold Storage in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bellingham Cold Storage averages 7.7 TCR (133% of the Cold Storage BLS benchmark).

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

Bellingham Cold Storage TCR series: 2019=7.4 · 2020=2 · 2021=13.3 · 2022=6.4 · 2023=7.5 · 2024=9.8 · BLS 5.8

Where Bellingham Cold Storage falls in its industry

1,039 Cold Storage establishments

Safer than 16% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Washington alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #22 safest of 32 Cold Storage employers in Washington.

Bellingham Cold Storage (154 employees, TCR 7.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 68 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Bellingham Cold Storage
Bellingham Cold Storage (154 employees, TCR 7.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 68 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Bellingham Cold Storage has more employees than the Cold Storage median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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 9.8 7.4 16 0 0
2023 7.5 7.5 12 0 0
2022 6.4 3.9 10 0 0
2021 13.3 13.3 12 0 0
2020 2.0 0.7 3 0 0
2019 7.4 7.4 11 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

493120 · WA · Bellingham

1,039 Cold Storage 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 WM 6096 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lineage Logistics Grand Island 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR M. Price Distributing Company 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR HR Metrics Daytona 7.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Legacy Telecommunications 154 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bergelectric Corp. WA 154 FTE
STATE-SIZE Randle Division 154 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pioneer Industries 154 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 Whole Foods Co-op Denfeld 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR New Haven Residential Treatment Center 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Montgomery 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Riverside Construction Materials, Inc 7.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Golden View Health Care Center 154 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sperber Landscape Companies, LLC 154 FTE
NAT-SIZE 10266 Bridgeport 154 FTE
NAT-SIZE Aerosafe Global - Buffalo Rd 154 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.