Coffee roasting · Washington

Joe's Garage Coffee, LLC

Kent, WA · ~59 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.3
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Joe's Garage Coffee, LLC runs at 177% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Coffee roasting workplace, earning a grade D.

Joe's Garage Coffee, LLC: 7.3 TCR = 177% of Coffee roasting BLS 4.1 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Joe's Garage Coffee, LLC safety composite

Joe's Garage Coffee, LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 12%), 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 7.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% 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

−4.0

2020→2023

Joe's Garage Coffee, LLC injury rate improved

Joe's Garage Coffee, LLC's TCR fell 4.0 from 11.2 in 2020 to 7.2 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2020 at 11.2 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.66× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=11.2 · 2021=2.8 · 2022=7.8 · 2023=7.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311920 · Kent, WA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.3 · 177% of ind

  • DART 4.8 DART
  • RANK #4/4
  • PHOTO New England Coffee
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~59 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: New England Coffee (0.1 TCR gap)

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Joe's Garage Coffee, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Joe's Garage Coffee, LLC averages 7.3 TCR (177% of the Coffee roasting BLS benchmark).

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

Joe's Garage Coffee, LLC TCR series: 2020=11.2 · 2021=2.8 · 2022=7.8 · 2023=7.2 · BLS 4.1

Where Joe's Garage Coffee, LLC falls in its industry

169 Coffee roasting establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Washington alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 4 Coffee roasting employers in Washington.

Joe's Garage Coffee, LLC (59 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 02004006008001,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Joe's Garage Coffee, LLC
Joe's Garage Coffee, LLC (59 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Joe's Garage Coffee, LLC has fewer employees than the Coffee roasting median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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
2023 7.2 4.8 3 0 0
2022 7.8 6.3 4 1 0
2021 2.8 1.4 2 0 0
2020 11.2 9.0 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311920 · WA · Kent

169 Coffee roasting employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,147 rated employers in Washington with headcount on file · 367 employers in Kent, 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 New England Coffee 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR REILY FOODS COMPANY - WILMINGTON DC 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kohana Coffee 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Houma Sales Location 7.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE John I. Haas, Inc. - Warehouse Division 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nationwide Solar 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE Precision Concrete LLC 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE CHG Building Systems, Inc. 59 FTE
CITY-NEAR Blue Origin 3,939 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : BFI4 2,994 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - BFI4 2,961 FTE
CITY-NEAR WA006 2,529 FTE
NAT-TCR Spencer Building Maintenance 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 0265 - Monroe Township Nj (Wet) Depot 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 0758 - Morris Il Depot - Ecomm 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Hard Rock Hotel San Diego 7.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE B03 Medcrest -Lithia Springs 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Show Me Your Mumu LLC 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Warehouse/Truckers 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Advance Corporation 59 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020. 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.