Fine dining restaurants, full service · Washington

El Gaucho Seattle

Seattle, WA · ~85 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.3
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

El Gaucho Seattle runs at 276% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fine dining restaurants, full service workplace, earning a grade F.

El Gaucho Seattle: 8.3 TCR = 276% of Fine dining restaurants, full service BLS 3.0 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

El Gaucho Seattle safety composite

El Gaucho Seattle scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 6%), 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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

El Gaucho Seattle: 1.7 → 14.8 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 14.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.12× in 2019

El Gaucho Seattle's TCR rose 13.2 from 1.7 in 2018 to 14.8 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 1.12× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722511 · Seattle, WA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.3 · 276% of ind

  • DART 9.3 DART
  • RANK #22/33
  • PHOTO Momento
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~85 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Momento (0.0 TCR gap)

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El Gaucho Seattle in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows El Gaucho Seattle averages 8.3 TCR (276% of the Fine dining restaurants, full service BLS benchmark).

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

El Gaucho Seattle TCR series: 2018=1.7 · 2019=14.8 · BLS 3.0

Where El Gaucho Seattle falls in its industry

1,091 Fine dining restaurants, full establishments

Safer than 24% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

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 33 Fine dining restaurants, full employers in Washington.

El Gaucho Seattle (85 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 4.9 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate El Gaucho Seattle
El Gaucho Seattle (85 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 4.9

El Gaucho Seattle has more employees than the Fine dining restaurants, full service median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.9. 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
2019 14.8 9.3 8 0 0
2018 1.7 1.7 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722511 · WA · Seattle

1,091 Fine dining restaurants, full service employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,147 rated employers in Washington with headcount on file · 1,279 employers in Seattle, 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 Momento 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Road Trip Bar & Grill LLC 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trattoria Reggiano #812 Venetian 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR National Coney Island - Royal Oak 8.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sarbanand Farms- WA 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE Puterbaugh Farms of WA LLC 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE PSE, SQE - Snoqualmie Center 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE Inland Construction & Development Co. 85 FTE
CITY-NEAR UW Seattle 32,378 FTE
CITY-NEAR The United States of America 25,000 FTE
CITY-NEAR Starz Entertainment 25,000 FTE
CITY-NEAR UW Medical Center - Montlake and NW 11,307 FTE
NAT-TCR St. Mary's Hospital & Clinics 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR River City Casino and Hotel 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Tuff Shed Store 480 - Minneapolis - NTH 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Superior Grocers # 109 8.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Nestle Direct Store Delivery - Portland 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE GLC Willow Springs 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE CTL 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE GLC Brentwood 85 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: 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.