Agriculture production or harvesting crews · Washington
Penn Cove Shellfish LLC
Coupeville, WA · ~53 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- F
- Failing Safety Record
- 19.6
- Avg TCR
- 4.5
- Industry avg
- 0
- Fatalities
The verdict
Penn Cove Shellfish LLC runs at 436% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Agriculture production or harvesting crews workplace, earning a grade F.
- F
- Failing Safety Record
- 19.6
- avg TCR · per 100 workers
- 4.5
- industry benchmark (BLS)
- 39
- recordable injuries tracked
Grade compares Penn Cove Shellfish LLC's OSHA Total Case Rate of 19.6 to the Agriculture production or harvesting crews BLS benchmark of 4.5 (436% of benchmark) across 3 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). <a href="/methodology">See methodology</a> for reporting-limitation caveats.
Injury rate over time
Penn Cove Shellfish LLC's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 4.5 industry benchmark.
Where Penn Cove Shellfish LLC falls in its industry
930 Agriculture production or harv establishmentsSafer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.
Narrower to Washington alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #40 safest of 41 Agriculture production or harv employers in Washington.
Trend analysis for Penn Cove Shellfish LLC
Between 2021 and 2022, Penn Cove Shellfish LLC's Total Case Rate improved from 24.1 to 15.1 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 37% decrease across 1 year of OSHA reporting.
The safest year on record was 2022, at a TCR of 15.1, while 2021 saw the highest rate, at 24.1, a spread of 8.9 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a comparatively narrow spread, suggesting a fairly consistent safety record across the 2 years with a usable rate on file, rather than one outlier year skewing the multi-year average.
Summed across those 2 reporting years, Penn Cove Shellfish LLC recorded 31 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 2-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.
Verify This Employer with OSHA
The 39 injuries shown on this page for Penn Cove Shellfish LLC are sourced from its own 3 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.
Verify on OSHA Establishment SearchSource: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 115115 - Agriculture production or harvesting crews.
DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2023)
What is the DART rate formula?
DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.
4 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 8,758 hours worked = 91.35 DART
Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping
Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State
| Benchmark | TCR | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Penn Cove Shellfish LLC (this establishment) | 19.60 | OSHA ITA Form 300A, 3-year avg |
| Agriculture production or harvesting crews industry avg | 4.50 | BLS IIF, NAICS 115115 |
| Washington state avg (all industries) | 6.20 | OSHA ITA, state-level rollup |
Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program
Reportable Incident Timeline
Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Penn Cove Shellfish LLC to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.
- 2023: 8 reportable incidents · 8 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2022: 14 reportable incidents · 14 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2021: 17 reportable incidents · 17 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records
Year-by-Year Safety Data
| Year | TCR | DART | Injuries | Illnesses | Fatalities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 182.7 | 91.3 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 15.1 | 3.2 | 14 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 24.1 | 7.1 | 17 | 0 | 0 |
What this grade means for you
Use this grade as a relative read on Penn Cove Shellfish LLC's reported OSHA injury record versus its Agriculture production or harvesting crews peers, not a verdict on whether any single site is safe today.
- At 436% of the Agriculture production or harvesting crews benchmark, Penn Cove Shellfish LLC reports more injuries than typical peers, ask specifically how the employer is reducing them. Know your rights
- Judge this record against the wider Agriculture production or harvesting crews sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
- Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another
Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.
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Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.