Flagging (i.e., traffic control) services · Oregon

Northwest Traffic Control Inc

Portland, OR · ~123 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Northwest Traffic Control Inc runs at 154% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Flagging (i.e., traffic control) services workplace, earning a grade D.

Northwest Traffic Control Inc: 4.0 TCR = 154% of Flagging (i.e., traffic control) services BLS 2.6 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Northwest Traffic Control Inc safety composite

Northwest Traffic Control Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 19%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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

Northwest Traffic Control Inc: 3.2 → 4.8 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 4.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.21× in 2019

Northwest Traffic Control Inc's TCR rose 1.6 from 3.2 in 2018 to 4.8 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 1.21× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561990 · Portland, OR ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.0 · 154% of ind

  • DART 4.8 DART
  • RANK #3/6
  • PHOTO Bountiful, UT
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~123 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bountiful, UT (0.0 TCR gap)

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Northwest Traffic Control Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Northwest Traffic Control Inc averages 4.0 TCR (154% of the Flagging (i.e., traffic control) services BLS benchmark).

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

Northwest Traffic Control Inc TCR series: 2018=3.2 · 2019=4.8 · BLS 2.6

Where Northwest Traffic Control Inc falls in its industry

208 Flagging (i.e., traffic contro establishments

Safer than 37% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Oregon alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 6 Flagging (i.e., traffic contro employers in Oregon.

Northwest Traffic Control Inc (123 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Northwest Traffic Control Inc
Northwest Traffic Control Inc (123 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Northwest Traffic Control Inc has more employees than the Flagging (i.e., traffic control) service median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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
2019 4.8 4.8 5 0 0
2018 3.2 3.2 3 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561990 · OR · Portland

208 Flagging (i.e., traffic control) services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 8,031 rated employers in Oregon with headcount on file · 1,728 employers in Portland, OR · 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 Bountiful, UT 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR S&N Locate Services Culpeper Office 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Capitol Barricade Inc. 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rochester, NY-1 4.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE City of Medford Service Center 123 FTE
STATE-SIZE Office Colima 123 FTE
STATE-SIZE OR112 Philomath Sawmill 123 FTE
STATE-SIZE Portland Lab 123 FTE
CITY-NEAR OHSU Main Campus 18,003 FTE
CITY-NEAR OR349 PROVIDENCE ST VINCENT MEDICAL CTR-PORTLA 4,033 FTE
CITY-NEAR OR346 PROVIDENCE PORTLAND MEDICAL CTR-PORTLAND 3,684 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2252-00000530 3,498 FTE
NAT-TCR Ethan Allen Design Center - Chester Springs PA 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Moore Transport - Spring Hill 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Faf Rdu 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Nizhoni Health Systems LLC- Stoughton 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Grenadier Realty Corp 123 FTE
NAT-SIZE Double Eagle Transportation 123 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Specialty Mfg Co 123 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cape Albeon 123 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: 2019, 2018. 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.