Distribution of electric power · Washington

Benton Public Utility District No. 1

Name: Benton Public Utility District No. 1 Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Kennewick, WA · ~148 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 1.5
Avg TCR: 1.2
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Benton Public Utility District No. 1 runs at 125% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Distribution of electric power workplace, earning a grade D.

Benton Public Utility District No. 1: 1.5 TCR = 125% of Distribution of electric power BLS 1.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Benton Public Utility District No. 1 safety composite

Benton Public Utility District No. 1 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 71% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 1.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% of industry peers
DART rate: D 0.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% 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

Benton Public Utility District No. 1: 0.0 → 3.0 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 3.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.5× in 2020

Benton Public Utility District No. 1's TCR rose 3.0 from 0.0 in 2019 to 3.0 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 221122 · Kennewick, WA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 1.5 · 125% of ind

DART 0.8 DART
RANK #8/30
PHOTO Oelwein
BOOK 2y book
INJ 4 inj
SIZE ~148 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Oelwein (0.0 TCR gap)

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1.5
Oelwein

1.5
SUMMERVILLE EL

1.5
Tulane Avenue

1.5
AMEREN ILLINOI

1.5

What this shows Benton Public Utility District No. 1 averages 1.5 TCR (125% of the Distribution of electric power BLS benchmark).

Benton Public Utility District No. 1 TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=3 · BLS 1.2

Where Benton Public Utility District No. 1 falls in its industry

2,958 Distribution of electric power establishments

Safer than 71% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Washington alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 30 Distribution of electric power employers in Washington.

Benton Public Utility District No. 1 (148 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Benton Public Utility District No. 1 has more employees than the Distribution of electric power median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2020	3.0	0.8	4	0	0
2019	0.0	0.0	0	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

221122 · WA · Kennewick

2,958 Distribution of electric power employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,147 rated employers in Washington with headcount on file · 115 employers in Kennewick, 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	Oelwein	OELWEIN, IA	1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	SUMMERVILLE ELECTRIC OPERATION	SUMMERVILLE, SC	1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Tulane Avenue	NEW ORLEANS, LA	1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	AMEREN ILLINOIS - Northern N - IL Common Ops	LINCOLN, IL	1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Andgar Corporation - Washington	FERNDALE	148 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Sunset Air	LACEY	148 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Inland Empire Paper Company	MILLWOOD	148 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Foss Maritime Company LLC - Shipyard	SEATTLE	148 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Trios Health	Kennewick	1,002 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Benton County, WA	Kennewick	679 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Benton County	Kennewick	650 FTE
CITY-NEAR	KENNEWICK WA (GAGE RD CORP)	Kennewick	457 FTE
NAT-TCR	Lancaster - LEC	Lancaster, NY	1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	MacroGenics 9704 Corporate	Rockville, MD	1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Aleris Rolled Products - Ashville, OH	Ashville, OH	1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Hayden Homes LLC OR	Redmond, OR	1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE	River City Center	Decatur, AL	148 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Haliburton International Foods	Ontario, CA	148 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Wastewater Division	Indianapolis, IN	148 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Enterprise-5499	Las Vegas, NV	148 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: 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.