Commercial bakeries · Washington

Franz Family Bakeries - 6th Avenue

Seattle, WA · ~192 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Franz Family Bakeries - 6th Avenue runs at 375% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Commercial bakeries workplace, earning a grade F.

Franz Family Bakeries - 6th Avenue: 12.4 TCR = 375% of Commercial bakeries BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Franz Family Bakeries - 6th Avenue safety composite

Franz Family Bakeries - 6th Avenue scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 7%), 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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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

−3.8

2019→2024

Franz Family Bakeries - 6th Avenue injury rate improved

Franz Family Bakeries - 6th Avenue's TCR fell 3.8 from 14.9 in 2019 to 11.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 16.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.79× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=14.9 · 2020=8.5 · 2021=8.0 · 2022=15.2 · 2023=16.5 · 2024=11.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311812 · Seattle, WA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 12.4 · 375% of ind

  • DART 9.8 DART
  • RANK #16/17
  • PHOTO Wedemeyer Bakery
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 113 inj
  • SIZE ~192 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Wedemeyer Bakery (0.0 TCR gap)

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Franz Family Bakeries - 6th Avenue in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Franz Family Bakeries - 6th Avenue averages 12.4 TCR (375% of the Commercial bakeries BLS benchmark).

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

Franz Family Bakeries - 6th Avenue TCR series: 2019=14.9 · 2020=8.5 · 2021=8 · 2022=15.2 · 2023=16.5 · 2024=11.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Franz Family Bakeries - 6th Avenue falls in its industry

1,014 Commercial bakeries establishments

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Washington alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 17 Commercial bakeries employers in Washington.

Franz Family Bakeries - 6th Avenue (192 employees, TCR 12.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 117 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 01,0002,0003,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Franz Family Bakeries - 6th Avenue
Franz Family Bakeries - 6th Avenue (192 employees, TCR 12.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 117 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Franz Family Bakeries - 6th Avenue has more employees than the Commercial bakeries median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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 11.1 9.8 17 0 0
2023 16.5 13.1 24 0 0
2022 15.2 14.0 24 1 0
2021 8.0 5.7 14 0 0
2020 8.5 3.9 13 0 0
2019 14.9 12.6 21 4 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311812 · WA · Seattle

1,014 Commercial bakeries 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 Wedemeyer Bakery 12.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR MultiGrains Inc. 12.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR QUAKER BAKERY BRANDS, INC 12.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Izzio Artisan Bakery 12.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Northern Fruit Associates LLC 192 FTE
STATE-SIZE 103440 - E130 Seattle to South Bellevue 192 FTE
STATE-SIZE TK Elevator Tacoma 192 FTE
STATE-SIZE Smith Brothers Farms Kent 192 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 Lake Orion Nursing and Rehab Center 12.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Total Electric of MT, LLC 12.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 0767 - San Dimas 12.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Glen Haven Home, Inc. 12.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cresco Labs - Lincoln 192 FTE
NAT-SIZE 622 - Sacramento 192 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0189 - Commerce 192 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0649 - East Colonial 192 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.