Pole line construction · Washington

Michels Power- Tumwater, Washington

Name: Michels Power- Tumwater, Washington Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Tumwater, WA · ~75 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 3.5
Avg TCR: 2.8
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Michels Power- Tumwater, Washington runs at 127% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Pole line construction workplace, earning a grade D.

Michels Power- Tumwater, Washington: 3.5 TCR = 127% of Pole line construction BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Michels Power- Tumwater, Washington safety composite

Michels Power- Tumwater, Washington scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 27%), 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).

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 3.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers
DART rate: F 2.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers
Fatalities: D 0

Safer than 52% 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

Michels Power- Tumwater, Washington: 2.8 → 4.3 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 4.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.61× in 2020

Michels Power- Tumwater, Washington's TCR rose 1.6 from 2.8 in 2019 to 4.3 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0.61× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237130 · Tumwater, WA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.5 · 127% of ind

DART 2.2 DART
RANK #36/49
PHOTO Trans-Tel Central, LLC
BOOK 2y book
INJ 6 inj
SIZE ~75 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Trans-Tel Central, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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ANCHR - Charlo

3.6
This site

3.5
Trans-Tel Cent

3.5
Infinite Commu

3.5
SC420 - Nashvi

3.5

What this shows Michels Power- Tumwater, Washington averages 3.5 TCR (127% of the Pole line construction BLS benchmark).

Michels Power- Tumwater, Washington TCR series: 2019=2.8 · 2020=4.3 · BLS 2.8

Where Michels Power- Tumwater, Washington falls in its industry

1,605 Pole line construction establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Washington alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #36 safest of 49 Pole line construction employers in Washington.

Michels Power- Tumwater, Washington (75 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Michels Power- Tumwater, Washington has more employees than the Pole line construction median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.0. 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
2020	4.3	2.2	4	0	0
2019	2.8	1.4	2	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237130 · WA · Tumwater

1,605 Pole line construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,147 rated employers in Washington with headcount on file · 59 employers in Tumwater, WA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Trans-Tel Central, LLC	NORMAN, OK	3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Infinite Communications, Inc.	JACKSONVILLE, FL	3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	SC420 - Nashville	NASHVILLE, TN	3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	ANCHR - Charlotte- NC	CHARLOTTE, NC	3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Al Dahra ACX, Inc. - Ellensburg	ELLENSBURG	75 FTE
STATE-SIZE	MLDEO-MLDIV-EL ORO CATTLE CO	MOSES LAKE	75 FTE
STATE-SIZE	FV Frontier Mariner	SEATTLE	75 FTE
STATE-SIZE	John I. Haas, Inc. Warehouse Division	YAKIMA	75 FTE
CITY-NEAR	WA Olympia	Tumwater	4,667 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Washington State Department of Health (Tumwater)	Tumwater	2,354 FTE
CITY-NEAR	0064 - TUMWATER WA WHSE	Tumwater	375 FTE
CITY-NEAR	701-00659	Tumwater	321 FTE
NAT-TCR	Charleston Terminal	Hanahan, SC	3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	VF Hauling	Houston, TX	3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Klaussner Plant 10	Asheboro, NC	3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Coldwater Machine Company, LLC	Coldwater, OH	3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Cedar Ridge Center	Skowhegan, ME	75 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Avalon Precision Casting Company, LLC	Cleveland, OH	75 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Spee-Dee Delivery Service, Inc. - Bloomington	Normal, IL	75 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Apollo Center	Highland, MI	75 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: 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.