Jails (except private operation of) · Washington

King County Adult & Juvenile Detention

Seattle, WA · ~907 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.8
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

King County Adult & Juvenile Detention runs at 463% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Jails (except private operation of) workplace, earning a grade F.

King County Adult & Juvenile Detention: 14.8 TCR = 463% of Jails (except private operation of) BLS 3.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

King County Adult & Juvenile Detention safety composite

King County Adult & Juvenile Detention scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 13%), 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 54% 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

King County Adult & Juvenile Detention: 8.6 → 21.6 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 21.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.6× in 2023

King County Adult & Juvenile Detention's TCR rose 13.0 from 8.6 in 2019 to 21.6 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.6× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922140 · Seattle, WA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 14.8 · 463% of ind

  • DART 8.9 DART
  • RANK #5/5
  • PHOTO COH Police Detention…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 521 inj
  • SIZE ~907 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: COH Police Detention Center (0.2 TCR gap)

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King County Adult & Juvenile Detention in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows King County Adult & Juvenile Detention averages 14.8 TCR (463% of the Jails (except private operation of) BLS benchmark).

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

King County Adult & Juvenile Detention TCR series: 2019=8.6 · 2020=8 · 2021=17.2 · 2022=18.6 · 2023=21.6 · BLS 3.2

Where King County Adult & Juvenile Detention falls in its industry

482 Jails (except private operatio establishments

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Washington alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 5 Jails (except private operatio employers in Washington.

King County Adult & Juvenile Detention (907 employees, TCR 14.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 240 employees and a TCR of 5.8 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 05001,0001,500 010203040 Average employees Total Case Rate King County Adult & Juvenile Detention
King County Adult & Juvenile Detention (907 employees, TCR 14.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 240 employees and a TCR of 5.8

King County Adult & Juvenile Detention has more employees than the Jails (except private operation of) median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.8. 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 21.6 8.9 151 4 0
2022 18.6 11.2 125 5 0
2021 17.2 12.0 116 17 0
2020 8.0 4.9 61 4 0
2019 8.6 5.3 68 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922140 · WA · Seattle

482 Jails (except private operation of) 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 COH Police Detention Center 15.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR California Men's Colony - San Luis Obispo 15.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chippewa Correctional Facilities 15.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Carson City Correctional Facility 15.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Community Transit 906 FTE
STATE-SIZE JH Kelly All States 910 FTE
STATE-SIZE WARED - REDMOND 911 FTE
STATE-SIZE Borton Orchards 918 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 Crowne Health Care of Mobile 14.8 TCR
NAT-TCR TENNESSEE 14.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Public Works Maintenance / Streets 14.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Athens Health and Rehabilitation, LLC 14.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE LM Wind Power 907 FTE
NAT-SIZE Eldorado Shreveport (220) 907 FTE
NAT-SIZE UC Hastings College of the Law 907 FTE
NAT-SIZE Total American Investment Company-Corporate 907 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, 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.