House painting · Washington

Bellingham Professional Finishes

Bellingham, WA · ~15 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.2
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bellingham Professional Finishes runs at 471% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical House painting workplace, earning a grade F.

Bellingham Professional Finishes: 13.2 TCR = 471% of House painting BLS 2.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bellingham Professional Finishes safety composite

Bellingham Professional Finishes scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 0%), 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

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 13.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
F 28.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% 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 Professional Finishes: 22.4 → 28.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 28.9 TCR · DART/TCR 2.19× in 2024

Bellingham Professional Finishes's TCR rose 6.4 from 22.4 in 2019 to 28.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2.19× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238320 · Bellingham, WA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 13.2 · 471% of ind

  • DART 28.9 DART
  • RANK #31/36
  • PHOTO Winchester Coatings,…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~15 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Winchester Coatings, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bellingham Professional Finishes in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bellingham Professional Finishes averages 13.2 TCR (471% of the House painting BLS benchmark).

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

Bellingham Professional Finishes TCR series: 2019=22.4 · 2021=0 · 2022=7.7 · 2023=7 · 2024=28.9 · BLS 2.8

Where Bellingham Professional Finishes falls in its industry

582 House painting establishments

Safer than 4% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Washington alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #31 safest of 36 House painting employers in Washington.

Bellingham Professional Finishes (15 employees, TCR 13.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Bellingham Professional Finishes
Bellingham Professional Finishes (15 employees, TCR 13.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Bellingham Professional Finishes has fewer employees than the House painting median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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 28.9 28.9 4 0 0
2023 7.0 7.0 1 0 0
2022 7.7 3.9 2 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 22.4 7.5 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238320 · WA · Bellingham

582 House painting 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. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Winchester Coatings, Inc. 13.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Brooks Painting, Inc 13.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Greg Anderson Painting 13.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Select Painting & Construction Inc. 12.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mark Bauder Orchards 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pavlof Fisheries 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE Appellation MGMT GRP 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE DTPC, LLC 15 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 McAlpin Industries Hollenbeck 13.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 2009 - Bedford 13.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 1096 13.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Flour Bluff 13.2 TCR

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, 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.