Government base facilities operation support services · Washington

City of Tacoma

Tacoma, WA · ~3,689 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.2
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of Tacoma runs at 201% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Government base facilities operation support services workplace, earning a grade F.

City of Tacoma: 5.2 TCR = 201% of Government base facilities operation support services BLS 2.6 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Tacoma safety composite

City of Tacoma scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 20%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% 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

City of Tacoma: 4.5 → 5.3 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 5.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.68× in 2024

City of Tacoma's TCR rose 0.8 from 4.5 in 2021 to 5.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 5.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.68× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561210 · Tacoma, WA ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade F · TCR 5.2 · 201% of ind

  • DART 3.5 DART
  • RANK #22/31
  • PHOTO City of Ionia
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 667 inj
  • SIZE ~3,689 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: City of Ionia (0.0 TCR gap)

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City of Tacoma in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of Tacoma averages 5.2 TCR (201% of the Government base facilities operation support services BLS benchmark).

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

City of Tacoma TCR series: 2021=4.5 · 2022=5.5 · 2023=5.6 · 2024=5.3 · BLS 2.6

Where City of Tacoma falls in its industry

757 Government base facilities ope establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Washington alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #22 safest of 31 Government base facilities ope employers in Washington.

City of Tacoma (3,689 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate City of Tacoma
City of Tacoma (3,689 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 2.9

City of Tacoma has more employees than the Government base facilities operation sup median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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 Illnesses Fatalities
2024 5.3 3.5 176 22 0
2023 5.6 3.9 191 14 0
2022 5.5 3.1 164 30 0
2021 4.5 2.6 136 15 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561210 · WA · Tacoma

757 Government base facilities operation support services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,147 rated employers in Washington with headcount on file · 445 employers in Tacoma, 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 City of Ionia 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Moscow ID EcoDistrict, LLC 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR KATMAI NORTH AMERICA, LLC 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR FORD KTP OPS 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Delta Air Lines - SEA 3,670 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tacoma General Hospital (Companied 10 & 20) 3,718 FTE
STATE-SIZE Western Washington University 3,794 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hawthorn Senior Living 3,847 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tacoma General Hospital 3,247 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2643-46080001-460801 3,061 FTE
CITY-NEAR 46080001-460801 ST. JOSEPH MEDICAL CENTER 2,735 FTE
CITY-NEAR MultiCare Health System Support and Admin (Company 2) 2,322 FTE
NAT-TCR Fiesta Key RV Resort 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR River Beach 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR GES New Orleans 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR CR45 5.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE St. Luke's Hospital 3,689 FTE
NAT-SIZE UTC Aerospace Systems Major Business Unit 3,700 FTE
NAT-SIZE Arizona Department of Transportation 3,701 FTE
NAT-SIZE Disney Studio Entertainment 3,701 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.