General services departments, government · Washington

Police Department

Bellingham, WA · ~148 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.1
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Police Department runs at 252% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical General services departments, government workplace, earning a grade F.

Police Department: 8.1 TCR = 252% of General services departments, government BLS 3.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Police Department safety composite

Police Department scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 16%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Police Department: 6.3 → 9.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 9.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.75× in 2024

Police Department's TCR rose 3.6 from 6.3 in 2023 to 9.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.75× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 921190 · Bellingham, WA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.1 · 252% of ind

  • DART 6.1 DART
  • RANK #22/28
  • PHOTO Coconino County Esta…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~148 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Coconino County Establishment 23-Parks and Recreation (0.0 TCR gap)

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Police Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Police Department averages 8.1 TCR (252% of the General services departments, government BLS benchmark).

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

Police Department TCR series: 2023=6.3 · 2024=9.9 · BLS 3.2

Where Police Department falls in its industry

1,496 General services departments, establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Washington alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #22 safest of 28 General services departments, employers in Washington.

Police Department (148 employees, TCR 8.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.6 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 010203040 Average employees Total Case Rate Police Department
Police Department (148 employees, TCR 8.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.6

Police Department has more employees than the General services departments, government median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.6. 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 9.9 6.1 12 1 0
2023 6.3 3.9 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

921190 · WA · Bellingham

1,496 General services departments, government employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,147 rated employers in Washington with headcount on file · 210 employers in Bellingham, 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 Coconino County Establishment 23-Parks and Recreation 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of White Bear Lake - Public Works 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR MOA, M&O, Fleet Mx, Bering St 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Geneva Public Works Department 8.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Benton Public Utility District No. 1 148 FTE
STATE-SIZE Andgar Corporation - Washington 148 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sunset Air 148 FTE
STATE-SIZE Inland Empire Paper Company 148 FTE
CITY-NEAR Western Washington University 3,794 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Joseph Medical Center Main Campus 2,537 FTE
CITY-NEAR North American Operations - Matrix Service Inc. 2,063 FTE
CITY-NEAR PHMG SJMC Clinics 864 FTE
NAT-TCR Txdel - Del Rio 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Glen Ivy Hot Springs 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Regency Place Senior Living 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Quality Aluminum Forge 8.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Casa Grande Dairy Products, LLC 148 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gulf Crane Services, Inc. 148 FTE
NAT-SIZE 060 Bakery Plant 148 FTE
NAT-SIZE Laale - Alexandria 148 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: 2024, 2023. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.