Sheriffs' offices (except court functions only) · Washington

King County Sheriff's Office

Seattle, WA · ~1,179 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.1
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

King County Sheriff's Office runs at 345% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Sheriffs' offices (except court functions only) workplace, earning a grade F.

King County Sheriff's Office: 11.1 TCR = 345% of Sheriffs' offices (except court functions only) BLS 3.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

King County Sheriff's Office safety composite

King County Sheriff's Office scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 41%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 11.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

−1.3

2019→2023

King County Sheriff's Office injury rate improved

King County Sheriff's Office's TCR fell 1.3 from 9.4 in 2019 to 8.1 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 13.9 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.36× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=9.4 · 2020=12.6 · 2021=11.2 · 2022=13.9 · 2023=8.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922120 · Seattle, WA ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade F · TCR 11.1 · 345% of ind

  • DART 4.0 DART
  • RANK #5/12
  • PHOTO Yuma County Sheriff'…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 499 inj
  • SIZE ~1,179 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Yuma County Sheriff's Office (0.0 TCR gap)

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King County Sheriff's Office in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows King County Sheriff's Office averages 11.1 TCR (345% of the Sheriffs' offices (except court functions only) BLS benchmark).

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

King County Sheriff's Office TCR series: 2019=9.4 · 2020=12.6 · 2021=11.2 · 2022=13.9 · 2023=8.1 · BLS 3.2

Where King County Sheriff's Office falls in its industry

716 Sheriffs' offices (except cour establishments

Safer than 41% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.5.

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 12 Sheriffs' offices (except cour employers in Washington.

King County Sheriff's Office (1,179 employees, TCR 11.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5 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 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate King County Sheriff's Office
King County Sheriff's Office (1,179 employees, TCR 11.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5

King County Sheriff's Office has more employees than the Sheriffs' offices (except court function median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 9.5. 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 8.1 4.0 79 5 0
2022 13.9 7.3 108 28 0
2021 11.2 5.9 101 18 0
2020 12.6 8.2 121 16 0
2019 9.4 4.4 90 10 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922120 · WA · Seattle

716 Sheriffs' offices (except court functions only) 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 Yuma County Sheriff's Office 11.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 97390003-500000 POLICE DEPARTMENT 11.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Goldsboro/ Police Department 11.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wright County- Sheriff Department 11.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE VECA Electric & Technologies 1,176 FTE
STATE-SIZE MultiCare Rockwood Clinics-All (Company 52) 1,182 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eastpointe 1,185 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ro Health, LLC 1,173 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 Annerino Center 11.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Spee Dee Delivery Service, Inc - Collinsville 11.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Bell Roof Company 11.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 0568 11.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE City of Oceanside 1,179 FTE
NAT-SIZE CSI 1,179 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mahle Behr Dayton 1,179 FTE
NAT-SIZE H&P Corporate 1,179 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.