Commercial refrigeration system installation · Washington

Key Mechanical Kent

Kent, WA · ~99 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.8
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Key Mechanical Kent runs at 278% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Commercial refrigeration system installation workplace, earning a grade F.

Key Mechanical Kent: 7.8 TCR = 278% of Commercial refrigeration system installation BLS 2.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Key Mechanical Kent safety composite

Key Mechanical Kent scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 18%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Key Mechanical Kent: 5.1 → 7.6 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 12.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.42× in 2021

Key Mechanical Kent's TCR rose 2.5 from 5.1 in 2017 to 7.6 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 12.6 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.42× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238220 · Kent, WA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.8 · 278% of ind

  • DART 3.2 DART
  • RANK #107/145
  • PHOTO Southeast Duct Speci…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 29 inj
  • SIZE ~99 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Southeast Duct Specialist, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Key Mechanical Kent in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Key Mechanical Kent averages 7.8 TCR (278% of the Commercial refrigeration system installation BLS benchmark).

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

Key Mechanical Kent TCR series: 2017=5.1 · 2018=7.3 · 2019=12.6 · 2020=6.4 · 2021=7.6 · BLS 2.8

Where Key Mechanical Kent falls in its industry

5,793 Commercial refrigeration syste establishments

Safer than 18% 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 #107 safest of 145 Commercial refrigeration syste employers in Washington.

Key Mechanical Kent (99 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Key Mechanical Kent
Key Mechanical Kent (99 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Key Mechanical Kent has more employees than the Commercial refrigeration system installa median and a higher 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
2021 7.6 3.2 6 1 0
2020 6.4 5.3 6 0 0
2019 12.6 11.0 8 0 0
2018 7.3 6.0 5 1 0
2017 5.1 5.1 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · WA · Kent

5,793 Commercial refrigeration system installation 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 Southeast Duct Specialist, Inc 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Plumb Tech Inc. 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR MAJOR MECHANICAL LLC 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR HSA Mechanical Services LLC 7.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sunnyside Dairy, LLC 99 FTE
STATE-SIZE SDC, LLC 99 FTE
STATE-SIZE DPR Construction - Seattle 99 FTE
STATE-SIZE Korsmo 99 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 561750-Clintonville Po 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR AmeriGas - Salt Lake City, UT 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 42151a - Milford Dc 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Adventist Medical Center-Portland 7.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Flavor Producers - Sharonville, OH 99 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dairy Farm 99 FTE
NAT-SIZE LP Live Oak, LLC- Surrey Place 99 FTE
NAT-SIZE Merit Chevrolet 99 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.