Fine dining restaurants, full service · Washington

El Gaucho Tacoma

Tacoma, WA · ~55 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.9
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

El Gaucho Tacoma runs at 264% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fine dining restaurants, full service workplace, earning a grade F.

El Gaucho Tacoma: 7.9 TCR = 264% of Fine dining restaurants, full service BLS 3.0 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

El Gaucho Tacoma safety composite

El Gaucho Tacoma scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 26%), 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% 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%).

TCR Δ

−10.8

2018→2019

El Gaucho Tacoma injury rate improved

El Gaucho Tacoma's TCR fell 10.8 from 13.3 in 2018 to 2.5 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 13.3 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=13.3 · 2019=2.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 7.9 · 264% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #21/33
  • PHOTO Bottega Louie
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~55 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bottega Louie (0.0 TCR gap)

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El Gaucho Tacoma in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows El Gaucho Tacoma averages 7.9 TCR (264% 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 Tacoma TCR series: 2018=13.3 · 2019=2.5 · BLS 3.0

Where El Gaucho Tacoma falls in its industry

1,091 Fine dining restaurants, full establishments

Safer than 26% 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 #21 safest of 33 Fine dining restaurants, full employers in Washington.

El Gaucho Tacoma (55 employees, TCR 7.9) 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 Tacoma
El Gaucho Tacoma (55 employees, TCR 7.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 4.9

El Gaucho Tacoma 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 2.5 0.0 1 0 0
2018 13.3 0.0 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722511 · WA · Tacoma

1,091 Fine dining restaurants, full service 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 Bottega Louie 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR IHOP 3479 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Keepers Coastal Kitchen 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Valley Dairy Restaurant #3 7.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Seneca Foods Corporation-Dayton, WA 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE Puget Sound Plants Inc. 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE Royal Dairy LLC 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nighthawk Orchard LLC 55 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tacoma General Hospital (Companied 10 & 20) 3,718 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Tacoma 3,689 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tacoma General Hospital 3,247 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2643-46080001-460801 3,061 FTE
NAT-TCR Bel-Aire Heating & Air Conditioning Inc. 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Hilton Tampa Westshore 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR EnerSys 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-Swy 0019 2623 7.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE QSI Cromwell 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE GLC Woodbridge 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE Essi, LLC 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store #129 55 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.