Commissaries, primarily groceries · Washington

Downtown Store

Bellingham, WA · ~135 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.5
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Downtown Store runs at 249% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Commissaries, primarily groceries workplace, earning a grade F.

Downtown Store: 8.5 TCR = 249% of Commissaries, primarily groceries BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Downtown Store safety composite

Downtown Store scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Downtown Store: 3.0 → 13.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 13.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.31× in 2024

Downtown Store's TCR rose 10.9 from 3.0 in 2023 to 13.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.31× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Bellingham, WA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.5 · 249% of ind

  • DART 11.1 DART
  • RANK #577/887
  • PHOTO ABS-0017-0016-01971 …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~135 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ABS-0017-0016-01971 FAC-01971-PEORIA-AZ (0.0 TCR gap)

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Downtown Store in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Downtown Store averages 8.5 TCR (249% of the Commissaries, primarily groceries BLS benchmark).

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

Downtown Store TCR series: 2023=3 · 2024=13.9 · BLS 3.4

Where Downtown Store falls in its industry

30,654 Commissaries, primarily grocer establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Washington alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #577 safest of 887 Commissaries, primarily grocer employers in Washington.

Downtown Store (135 employees, TCR 8.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 050100150200250 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Downtown Store
Downtown Store (135 employees, TCR 8.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Downtown Store has more employees than the Commissaries, primarily groceries median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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
2024 13.9 11.1 10 0 0
2023 3.0 3.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · WA · Bellingham

30,654 Commissaries, primarily groceries 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 ABS-0017-0016-01971 FAC-01971-PEORIA-AZ 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR WM 3287 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 10221 Harrison (Oakland) 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6903-69030002-23 8.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Seattle - Pihowich 135 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sonderen Packaging 135 FTE
STATE-SIZE CertainTeed-Gypsum Manufacturing 135 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lake Union Drydock Co 135 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 Arbor Landing at Compass Pointe 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR EMS - Pillars of Grand Rapids 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR West St. Paul 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Waterford at Creekside 8.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Master Electric Inc. 135 FTE
NAT-SIZE Custom Profile 135 FTE
NAT-SIZE Northeast Prestressed Products, LLC 135 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bedford Care Center of Hattiesburg 135 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.