Plasmapheresis Center · Washington

Bellingham, WA-BioLife

Bellingham, WA · ~49 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
16.0
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bellingham, WA-BioLife runs at 420% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Plasmapheresis Center workplace, earning a grade F.

Bellingham, WA-BioLife: 16.0 TCR = 420% of Plasmapheresis Center BLS 3.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bellingham, WA-BioLife safety composite

Bellingham, WA-BioLife scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 2%), 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 15.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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

Bellingham, WA-BioLife: 13.7 → 18.3 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 18.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.69× in 2021

Bellingham, WA-BioLife's TCR rose 4.6 from 13.7 in 2020 to 18.3 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0.69× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621991 · Bellingham, WA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 16.0 · 420% of ind

  • DART 10.9 DART
  • RANK #29/30
  • PHOTO AMERICAN RED CROSS -…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~49 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: AMERICAN RED CROSS - 3415-3485 E HAMILTON AVE (0.1 TCR gap)

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Bellingham, WA-BioLife in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bellingham, WA-BioLife averages 16.0 TCR (420% of the Plasmapheresis Center BLS benchmark).

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

Bellingham, WA-BioLife TCR series: 2020=13.7 · 2021=18.3 · BLS 3.8

Where Bellingham, WA-BioLife falls in its industry

1,713 Plasmapheresis Center establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Washington alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #29 safest of 30 Plasmapheresis Center employers in Washington.

Bellingham, WA-BioLife (49 employees, TCR 16.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 4.3 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Bellingham, WA-BioLife
Bellingham, WA-BioLife (49 employees, TCR 16.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Bellingham, WA-BioLife has more employees than the Plasmapheresis Center median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.3. 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
2021 18.3 10.9 5 0 0
2020 13.7 13.7 4 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621991 · WA · Bellingham

1,713 Plasmapheresis Center 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 AMERICAN RED CROSS - 3415-3485 E HAMILTON AVE 16.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mobile Region 15.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Las Vegas, NV-Biolife 742 16.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR AMERICAN RED CROSS - 10640 DEME DR 15.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE FRH Dairy 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Columbia Bean & Produce 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Zaldivars 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lockhart Suver 49 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 Service 5212 16.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 6458-ZMAC 16.0 TCR
NAT-TCR EATELCORP - Installation/Repair Lab & Fiber 16.0 TCR
NAT-TCR APX Industrial Coatings 16.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Alpine Terrace 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Riverview Golf & Country Club 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Case-Halstead Library 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Water Department 49 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. 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.