Nursery, Garden Center, and Farm Supply Stores · Washington

Bellingham Meridian Store

Name: Bellingham Meridian Store Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Bellingham, WA · ~21 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 10.6
Avg TCR: 3.4
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Bellingham Meridian Store runs at 313% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Nursery, Garden Center, and Farm Supply Stores workplace, earning a grade F.

Bellingham Meridian Store: 10.6 TCR = 313% of Nursery, Garden Center, and Farm Supply Stores BLS 3.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bellingham Meridian Store safety composite

Bellingham Meridian Store scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 16%), 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).

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 10.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers
DART rate: F 7.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% 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%).

Bellingham Meridian Store held a steady TCR band

Bellingham Meridian Store's TCR held near 0.3 from 6.8 in 2016 to 7.2 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2017 at 14.7 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.8 · 2017=14.7 · 2020=13.9 · 2021=7.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444220 · Bellingham, WA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.6 · 313% of ind

DART 7.2 DART
RANK #12/14
PHOTO Newberg
BOOK 4y book
INJ 6 inj
SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Newberg (0.0 TCR gap)

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Newberg

10.7
RK-044-Champai

10.7
Agronomy

10.7
RK-001-Mattoon

10.7
This site

10.6

What this shows Bellingham Meridian Store averages 10.6 TCR (313% of the Nursery, Garden Center, and Farm Supply Stores BLS benchmark).

Bellingham Meridian Store TCR series: 2016=6.8 · 2017=14.7 · 2020=13.9 · 2021=7.2 · BLS 3.4

Where Bellingham Meridian Store falls in its industry

642 Nursery, Garden Center, and Fa establishments

Safer than 16% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.9.

Grade F

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 14 Nursery, Garden Center, and Fa employers in Washington.

Bellingham Meridian Store (21 employees, TCR 10.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 5.9

Bellingham Meridian Store has fewer employees than the Nursery, Garden Center, and Farm Supply median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.9. 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
2021	7.2	7.2	1
2020	13.9	13.9	2
2017	14.7	14.7	2
2016	6.8	6.8	1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444220 · WA · Bellingham

642 Nursery, Garden Center, and Farm Supply Stores 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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Newberg	NEWBERG, OR	10.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	RK-044-Champaign ( RK-044 )	CHAMPAIGN, IL	10.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Agronomy	AINSWORTH, NE	10.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	RK-001-Mattoon ( RK-001 )	MATTOON, IL	10.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Knutzen Farms LP	BURLINGTON	21 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Firewood	YAKIMA	21 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Pasco Farming	PASCO	21 FTE
STATE-SIZE	AB-Jacklin Seed-Liberty Lake	LIBERTY LAKE	21 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Western Washington University	Bellingham	3,794 FTE
CITY-NEAR	St. Joseph Medical Center Main Campus	Bellingham	2,537 FTE
CITY-NEAR	North American Operations - Matrix Service Inc.	Bellingham	2,063 FTE
CITY-NEAR	PHMG SJMC Clinics	Bellingham	864 FTE
NAT-TCR	Vectren Corporation - Centerville	Centerville, OH	10.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Bowling Green Manor	Bowling Green, OH	10.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	SonRay Construction	Rocklin, CA	10.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Retama Manor Nursing Center/Laredo West	Laredo, TX	10.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Elrosa Office/Fert/NH3/Whse	Elrosa, MN	21 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Workforce Development 70th	Shreveport, LA	21 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Middletown Central Communications	Middletown, CT	21 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Keene FST (KNEWD)	Keene, ND	21 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: 2021, 2020, 2017, 2016. 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.