Port facility operation · Washington

Port of Bellingham

Bellingham, WA · ~134 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Port of Bellingham runs at 101% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Port facility operation workplace, earning a grade C.

Port of Bellingham: 4.5 TCR = 101% of Port facility operation BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Port of Bellingham safety composite

Port of Bellingham scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 17%), 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).

D

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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

Port of Bellingham: 2.6 → 6.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 6.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.42× in 2024

Port of Bellingham's TCR rose 3.8 from 2.6 in 2023 to 6.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.42× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488310 · Bellingham, WA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 4.5 · 101% of ind

  • DART 6.4 DART
  • RANK #2/4
  • PHOTO Ingram Barge Company…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~134 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ingram Barge Company Columbus Facility (0.0 TCR gap)

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Port of Bellingham in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Port of Bellingham averages 4.5 TCR (101% of the Port facility operation BLS benchmark).

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

Port of Bellingham TCR series: 2023=2.6 · 2024=6.4 · BLS 4.5

Where Port of Bellingham falls in its industry

81 Port facility operation establishments

Safer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Washington alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 4 Port facility operation employers in Washington.

Port of Bellingham (134 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 62 employees and a TCR of 4.2 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Port of Bellingham
Port of Bellingham (134 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 62 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Port of Bellingham has more employees than the Port facility operation median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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 6.4 6.4 8 0 0
2023 2.6 1.8 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488310 · WA · Bellingham

81 Port facility operation 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 Ingram Barge Company Columbus Facility 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Delaware River Stevedores - Tioga Marine Terminal 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bowhead Marine Support Services 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR USF at Atlantic Intercoastal Water Way 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE PSE, ESO - Eastside System Operations 134 FTE
STATE-SIZE Holt Homes 134 FTE
STATE-SIZE Northshore Exteriors WA 134 FTE
STATE-SIZE CUPERTINO ELECTRIC, INC. - WA OPERATIONS 134 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 ICI Metals, Inc. 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Giant Landover 0373 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR CSU-F Gastronome 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Orlando Custodial 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Daimay North America Automotive Inc 134 FTE
NAT-SIZE Caton Park Rehabilitation and Nursing Center 134 FTE
NAT-SIZE Eco Services Operations Corp 134 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rassini Brakes LLC 134 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.

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