Community recreation programs, government · Washington

Cowlitz County

Kelso, WA · ~615 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Cowlitz County runs at 133% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Community recreation programs, government workplace, earning a grade D.

Cowlitz County: 4.3 TCR = 133% of Community recreation programs, government BLS 3.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cowlitz County safety composite

Cowlitz County scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 58% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 1%), 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)
C 4.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 1% 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

Cowlitz County: 4.1 → 4.9 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 4.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.57× in 2021

Cowlitz County's TCR rose 0.8 from 4.1 in 2019 to 4.9 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0.57× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 924120 · Kelso, WA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.3 · 133% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK #9/18
  • PHOTO Ramona Hall
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 49 inj
  • SIZE ~615 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ramona Hall (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cowlitz County in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cowlitz County averages 4.3 TCR (133% of the Community recreation programs, government BLS benchmark).

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

Cowlitz County TCR series: 2019=4.1 · 2020=3.9 · 2021=4.9 · BLS 3.2

Where Cowlitz County falls in its industry

413 Community recreation programs, establishments

Safer than 58% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Washington alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 18 Community recreation programs, employers in Washington.

Cowlitz County (615 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 5.0 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Cowlitz County
Cowlitz County (615 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 5.0

Cowlitz County has more employees than the Community recreation programs, governmen median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.0. 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
2021 4.9 2.4 15 5 0
2020 3.9 1.4 15 4 0
2019 4.1 1.1 19 3 1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

924120 · WA · Kelso

413 Community recreation programs, government employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,147 rated employers in Washington with headcount on file · 35 employers in Kelso, 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 Ramona Hall 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Construction Services 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Flagstaff Ranger District 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lower Huron Metropark 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pacific Seafood/Woodland 616 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Olympia 614 FTE
STATE-SIZE Columbia Orchard Mgt 613 FTE
STATE-SIZE 15815 25th Ave West 617 FTE
CITY-NEAR Public Works - Parks 621 FTE
CITY-NEAR Public Works Kelso Shop 621 FTE
CITY-NEAR Admin Annex - Weeds 621 FTE
CITY-NEAR Building & Planning 621 FTE
NAT-TCR Phoenix Shop AZ FXFE-PHXS 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Crystal Creamery, Inc Fresno 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Hagerstown, MD Office 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Hobart Service, Miami 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Supply Chain : Wilmington, NC 615 FTE
NAT-SIZE Supply Chain : Muskegon, MI 615 FTE
NAT-SIZE Schofield Facility 615 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mack Engine Plant 615 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, 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.