Plastics materials merchant wholesalers · Washington

Kent, WA

Kent, WA · ~235 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.9
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kent, WA runs at 269% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Plastics materials merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Kent, WA: 5.9 TCR = 269% of Plastics materials merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kent, WA safety composite

Kent, WA scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 15%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% 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

−3.2

2016→2024

Kent, WA injury rate improved

Kent, WA's TCR fell 3.2 from 5.6 in 2016 to 2.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 16.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.13× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.6 · 2017=16.0 · 2018=6.2 · 2019=5.0 · 2020=4.3 · 2021=4.8 · 2022=2.7 · 2023=6.2 · 2024=2.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424610 · Kent, WA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 5.9 · 269% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK P15
  • PHOTO Flower Mound
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 103 inj
  • SIZE ~235 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Flower Mound (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kent, WA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kent, WA averages 5.9 TCR (269% of the Plastics materials merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

Kent, WA TCR series: 2016=5.6 · 2017=16 · 2018=6.2 · 2019=5 · 2020=4.3 · 2021=4.8 · 2022=2.7 · 2023=6.2 · 2024=2.4 · BLS 2.2

Where Kent, WA falls in its industry

101 Plastics materials merchant wh establishments

Safer than 15% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Kent, WA (235 employees, TCR 5.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.1 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 0100200300 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Kent, WA
Kent, WA (235 employees, TCR 5.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.1

Kent, WA has more employees than the Plastics materials merchant wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.1. 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
2024 2.4 0.8 4 2 0
2023 6.2 3.7 12 3 0
2022 2.7 1.8 6 0 0
2021 4.8 3.9 10 1 0
2020 4.3 3.8 7 2 0
2019 5.0 3.5 13 0 0
2018 6.2 4.3 19 1 0
2017 16.0 11.8 19 0 0
2016 5.6 4.2 13 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424610 · WA · Kent

101 Plastics materials merchant wholesalers 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 Flower Mound 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Southern Container, LLC. Building 2 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lewisberry 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR PolyWorks, LLC 5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE National 45B4 Alamo 45B2 235 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tucci & Sons, Inc. 235 FTE
STATE-SIZE Touchmark - TAFV 235 FTE
STATE-SIZE SOUTH WHIDBEY SCHOOL DIST 235 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 PSC Industries - Columbia 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Bismarck - H A Thompson & Sons, Inc. 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Pitt Ohio - Baltimore 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR DSP 5.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE IKEA #162 Carson 235 FTE
NAT-SIZE Asheboro Mill 235 FTE
NAT-SIZE DK 235 FTE
NAT-SIZE ERI Plainfield, IN 235 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, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.