Waste recovery facilities · Washington

King County Wastewater Treatment

Seattle, WA · ~783 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.7
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

King County Wastewater Treatment runs at 182% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Waste recovery facilities workplace, earning a grade D.

King County Wastewater Treatment: 4.7 TCR = 182% of Waste recovery facilities BLS 2.6 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

King County Wastewater Treatment safety composite

King County Wastewater Treatment scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 39%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% 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%).

King County Wastewater Treatment held a steady TCR band

King County Wastewater Treatment's TCR held near 0.1 from 4.7 in 2019 to 4.8 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 6.8 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.54× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=4.7 · 2020=4.0 · 2021=3.3 · 2022=6.8 · 2023=4.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562920 · Seattle, WA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.7 · 182% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #5/13
  • PHOTO Elk River Resource P…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 122 inj
  • SIZE ~783 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Elk River Resource Processing Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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King County Wastewater Treatment in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows King County Wastewater Treatment averages 4.7 TCR (182% of the Waste recovery facilities BLS benchmark).

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

King County Wastewater Treatment TCR series: 2019=4.7 · 2020=4 · 2021=3.3 · 2022=6.8 · 2023=4.8 · BLS 2.6

Where King County Wastewater Treatment falls in its industry

422 Waste recovery facilities establishments

Safer than 39% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

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 13 Waste recovery facilities employers in Washington.

King County Wastewater Treatment (783 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 3.8 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate King County Wastewater Treatment
King County Wastewater Treatment (783 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 3.8

King County Wastewater Treatment has more employees than the Waste recovery facilities median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.8. 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 4.8 2.6 31 5 0
2022 6.8 1.6 25 22 0
2021 3.3 1.6 20 2 0
2020 4.0 2.4 22 5 0
2019 4.7 3.0 24 7 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562920 · WA · Seattle

422 Waste recovery facilities 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 Elk River Resource Processing Plant 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Carolina Recycling Corp. 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fort Worth 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Manassas 3807 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE SWY-0027-0027-06608 FAC-06608-AUBURN-WA 782 FTE
STATE-SIZE King County Executive Services 784 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2643-46230001-462301 786 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2252-00000215 779 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 Black Mountain Home for Children, Youth and Families, Inc. 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #5223 Dover, NJ 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR AUC-Manatee 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Kuehne + Nagel Inc. (CQE-6414) 4.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE O&G Industries, Inc. 783 FTE
NAT-SIZE Citrus memorial Hospital 783 FTE
NAT-SIZE Erwin Diesel 783 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fltab - Tampa 783 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.