Blending wines · Washington

Northstar Winery

Walla Walla, WA · ~15 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Northstar Winery runs at 146% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Blending wines workplace, earning a grade D.

Northstar Winery: 4.8 TCR = 146% of Blending wines BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Northstar Winery safety composite

Northstar Winery scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

DART rate
F 14.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Northstar Winery: 0.0 → 14.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 14.5 TCR · DART/TCR 3× in 2024

Northstar Winery's TCR rose 14.5 from 0.0 in 2017 to 14.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 312130 · Walla Walla, WA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.8 · 146% of ind

  • DART 14.5 DART
  • RANK #8/17
  • PHOTO Washington Vintners
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~15 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Washington Vintners (0.0 TCR gap)

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Northstar Winery in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Northstar Winery averages 4.8 TCR (146% of the Blending wines BLS benchmark).

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

Northstar Winery TCR series: 2017=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=14.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Northstar Winery falls in its industry

309 Blending wines establishments

Safer than 50% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Washington alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 17 Blending wines employers in Washington.

Northstar Winery (15 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.9 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Northstar Winery
Northstar Winery (15 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Northstar Winery has fewer employees than the Blending wines median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.9. 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
2024 14.5 14.5 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

312130 · WA · Walla Walla

309 Blending wines employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,147 rated employers in Washington with headcount on file · 67 employers in Walla Walla, WA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Washington Vintners 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Frei Ranch Winery 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bronco Wine Company 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Duckhorn Vineyards 4.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mark Bauder Orchards 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pavlof Fisheries 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE Appellation MGMT GRP 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE DTPC, LLC 15 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2252-00000325 1,246 FTE
CITY-NEAR WA645 ST MARY MEDICAL CENTER-WALLA WALLA HR 1,037 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Walla Walla 407 FTE
CITY-NEAR Water Treatment Plan 372 FTE
NAT-TCR The Retreat at Easley 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Woodlake 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Vistapak Industries, Inc 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Hoge Lumber Company 4.8 TCR

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: 2024, 2023, 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.