Fittings, rigid plastics pipe, manufacturing · Washington

Bellingham, WA

Bellingham, WA · ~63 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
15.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bellingham, WA runs at 455% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fittings, rigid plastics pipe, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Bellingham, WA: 15.0 TCR = 455% of Fittings, rigid plastics pipe, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bellingham, WA safety composite

Bellingham, WA 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 15.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 12.95 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, WA: 10.9 → 17.3 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 24.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.86× in 2022

Bellingham, WA's TCR rose 6.4 from 10.9 in 2019 to 17.3 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 24.8 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.86× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326122 · Bellingham, WA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 15.0 · 455% of ind

  • DART 12.9 DART
  • RANK #7/7
  • PHOTO MERIDIAN PRECISION
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 26 inj
  • SIZE ~63 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MERIDIAN PRECISION (1.0 TCR gap)

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Bellingham, WA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bellingham, WA averages 15.0 TCR (455% of the Fittings, rigid plastics pipe, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Bellingham, WA TCR series: 2019=10.9 · 2020=7.2 · 2021=24.8 · 2022=17.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Bellingham, WA falls in its industry

332 Fittings, rigid plastics pipe, establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Washington alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 7 Fittings, rigid plastics pipe, employers in Washington.

Bellingham, WA (63 employees, TCR 15.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Bellingham, WA
Bellingham, WA (63 employees, TCR 15.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Bellingham, WA has fewer employees than the Fittings, rigid plastics pipe, manufactu median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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
2022 17.3 12.9 8 0 0
2021 24.8 22.9 8 5 0
2020 7.2 3.6 4 0 0
2019 10.9 9.3 6 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326122 · WA · Bellingham

332 Fittings, rigid plastics pipe, manufacturing 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 MERIDIAN PRECISION 14.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vulcan Plastics 14.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Environmental Manufacturing Inc. 16.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Flying W Plastics FL, Inc 16.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Watson's Greenhouse 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE John I Haas Inc 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE George DeRuyter & Sons Dairy 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE Manke Lumber Company Inc. - Shelton 63 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 6962-SWY-0029-0029-02120 15.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 6962-SWY-0025-0025-02684 15.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Modern Mail Service Inc DBA Modern Express 15.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Blackville Healthcare and Rehabilitation 15.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE WDS - Salinas 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hillside 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Diversicare of Larned 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE CLE-ODFL 63 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: 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.