Coloring metals and metal products (except coating) for the trade · Washington

Color Tech

Mountlake Terrace, WA · ~50 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Color Tech runs at 166% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Coloring metals and metal products (except coating) for the trade workplace, earning a grade D.

Color Tech: 5.5 TCR = 166% of Coloring metals and metal products (except coating) for the trade BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Color Tech safety composite

Color Tech scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 31%), 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).

D

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.9

2016→2023

Color Tech injury rate improved

Color Tech's TCR fell 0.9 from 3.5 in 2016 to 2.6 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2019 at 14.9 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.48× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.5 · 2019=14.9 · 2020=6.4 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=2.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332813 · Mountlake Terrace, WA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 166% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #3/5
  • PHOTO Mentor
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~50 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mentor (0.0 TCR gap)

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Color Tech in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Color Tech averages 5.5 TCR (166% of the Coloring metals and metal products (except coating) for the trade BLS benchmark).

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

Color Tech TCR series: 2016=3.5 · 2019=14.9 · 2020=6.4 · 2022=0 · 2023=2.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Color Tech falls in its industry

585 Coloring metals and metal prod establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Washington alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 5 Coloring metals and metal prod employers in Washington.

Color Tech (50 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 0200400600 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Color Tech
Color Tech (50 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Color Tech has fewer employees than the Coloring metals and metal products (exce median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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
2023 2.6 2.6 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 6.4 2.1 3 0 0
2019 14.9 10.6 6 1 0
2016 3.5 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332813 · WA · Mountlake Terrace

585 Coloring metals and metal products (except coating) for the trade employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,147 rated employers in Washington with headcount on file · 21 employers in Mountlake Terrace, 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 Mentor 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Aero Metal Finishing, LLC. 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chrome Plus International 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Scot Industries - Muscoda 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hyer Farms 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Allied Potato Northwest 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bronze Star Inc 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE L&L Farm Pasco - Burbank 50 FTE
CITY-NEAR SL Start Seattle - 10001 299 FTE
CITY-NEAR North Seattle 140 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4054-ABS-0027-0026-00414 133 FTE
CITY-NEAR ABS-0027-0026-00414 FAC-00414-MOUNTLAKE TERRACE-WA 125 FTE
NAT-TCR Inspirations of Florence 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #556 TAMPA, FL 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Gared Holdings, LLC 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Bashas 047 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Rush Company Inc. 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Weld-On 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Premiere #1 Limousine Service, LLC 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Germain Mazda 50 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: 2023, 2022, 2020, 2019, 2016. 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.