Etching metals and metal products (except printing plates) for the trade · Washington

NW Etch

Tacoma, WA · ~30 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

NW Etch runs at 95% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Etching metals and metal products (except printing plates) for the trade workplace, earning a grade C.

NW Etch: 3.1 TCR = 95% of Etching metals and metal products (except printing plates) for the trade BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

NW Etch safety composite

NW Etch scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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%).

TCR Δ

−6.2

2018→2019

NW Etch injury rate improved

NW Etch's TCR fell 6.2 from 6.2 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 6.2 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=6.2 · 2019=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332812 · Tacoma, WA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.1 · 95% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/4
  • PHOTO Trigard Memorials
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Trigard Memorials (0.0 TCR gap)

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NW Etch in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows NW Etch averages 3.1 TCR (95% of the Etching metals and metal products (except printing plates) for the trade BLS benchmark).

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

NW Etch TCR series: 2018=6.2 · 2019=0 · BLS 3.3

Where NW Etch falls in its industry

646 Etching metals and metal produ establishments

Safer than 60% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Washington alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 4 Etching metals and metal produ employers in Washington.

NW Etch (30 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate NW Etch
NW Etch (30 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.9

NW Etch has fewer employees than the Etching metals and metal products (excep median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 6.2 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332812 · WA · Tacoma

646 Etching metals and metal products (except printing plates) for the trade employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,147 rated employers in Washington with headcount on file · 445 employers in Tacoma, 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 Trigard Memorials 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Waterloo - CR 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Metal Coaters of Ambridge 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Electro Chemical Engineering and Manufacturing 3.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE El Rancho Bella Vista LLC 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Liberty Foods, LLC 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE NOURSE FARMS, INC. - WA 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dixieland Cherries LLC 30 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tacoma General Hospital (Companied 10 & 20) 3,718 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Tacoma 3,689 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tacoma General Hospital 3,247 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2643-46080001-460801 3,061 FTE
NAT-TCR Mead Fluid Dynamics 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Rpp LLC 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Paoli Health & Living Community 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Ross store 99 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Garratt-Callahan Company Ed 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Comm HVAC NA and EMEA : SVC-Great Northern Plains District : SVC-Fargo ND-USA 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cleveland Home Care 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Colonial Lighting 30 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.

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