Sporting goods (except ammunition, clothing, footwear, small arms) manufacturing · Washington

Gear Aid, INC

Bellingham, WA · ~68 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Gear Aid, INC runs at 57% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Sporting goods (except ammunition, clothing, footwear, small arms) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Gear Aid, INC: 1.9 TCR = 57% of Sporting goods (except ammunition, clothing, footwear, small arms) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gear Aid, INC safety composite

Gear Aid, INC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 78% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 23%), 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

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% 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

Gear Aid, INC: 0.0 → 3.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 3.8 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2024

Gear Aid, INC's TCR rose 3.8 from 0.0 in 2023 to 3.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339920 · Bellingham, WA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.9 · 57% of ind

  • DART 3.8 DART
  • RANK #3/9
  • PHOTO Precor NC
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~68 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Precor NC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Gear Aid, INC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gear Aid, INC averages 1.9 TCR (57% of the Sporting goods (except ammunition, clothing, footwear, small arms) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Gear Aid, INC TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=3.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Gear Aid, INC falls in its industry

197 Sporting goods (except ammunit establishments

Safer than 78% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Washington alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 9 Sporting goods (except ammunit employers in Washington.

Gear Aid, INC (68 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 84 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 Gear Aid, INC
Gear Aid, INC (68 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 84 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Gear Aid, INC has fewer employees than the Sporting goods (except ammunition, cloth median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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 3.8 3.8 2 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339920 · WA · Bellingham

197 Sporting goods (except ammunition, clothing, footwear, small arms) manufacturing 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 Precor NC 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cascade Designs INC 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR PlayCore 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Thursday Pools 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Baker Produce - Goosehill I 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE PSE, OLY - Olympia Business Office 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE Regenis LLC 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE Newport 68 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 Galena Park Splitter 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Bellmore Home Center Inc Overhead 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Land-Grant Brewing Company, LLC 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Luster Products, Inc 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE TRAIL-EZE Mitchell 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Windham Millwork Inc 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Astro Manufacturing & Design, Inc. 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vivante North 68 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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