Parks and recreation commission, government · Washington

Public Works - Parks

Kelso, WA · ~621 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.3
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Public Works - Parks runs at 9% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Parks and recreation commission, government workplace, earning a grade A.

Public Works - Parks: 0.3 TCR = 9% of Parks and recreation commission, government BLS 3.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Public Works - Parks safety composite

Public Works - Parks scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 98% 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).

B

80/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 98% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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%).

Public Works - Parks held a steady TCR band

Public Works - Parks's TCR held near 0.1 from 0.2 in 2017 to 0.4 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=0.2 · 2018=0.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 924120 · Kelso, WA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.3 · 9% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/18
  • PHOTO Headquarters
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~621 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Headquarters (0.0 TCR gap)

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Public Works - Parks in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Public Works - Parks averages 0.3 TCR (9% of the Parks and recreation commission, government BLS benchmark).

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

Public Works - Parks TCR series: 2017=0.2 · 2018=0.4 · BLS 3.2

Where Public Works - Parks falls in its industry

413 Parks and recreation commissio establishments

Safer than 98% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.0.

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 18 Parks and recreation commissio employers in Washington.

Public Works - Parks (621 employees, TCR 0.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 5.0 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Public Works - Parks
Public Works - Parks (621 employees, TCR 0.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 5.0

Public Works - Parks has more employees than the Parks and recreation commission, governm median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.0. 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
2018 0.4 0.0 2 0 0
2017 0.2 0.2 0 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

924120 · WA · Kelso

413 Parks and recreation commission, government employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,147 rated employers in Washington with headcount on file · 35 employers in Kelso, 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 Headquarters 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Conservatory 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Civic Center 0.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR NOVA Parks Headquarters 0.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Public Works Castle Rock Shop 621 FTE
STATE-SIZE Public Works Longview Shop 621 FTE
STATE-SIZE Public Works Kalama Shop 621 FTE
STATE-SIZE Public Works Kelso Shop 621 FTE
CITY-NEAR Admin Annex - Weeds 621 FTE
CITY-NEAR Building & Planning 621 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cowlitz County 615 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kelso 519 FTE
NAT-TCR ACE-IT 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Air Group Building (Kyarp) 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Hoffman Estates Commercial and Food Innovation Center 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Solvay Specialty Polymers, USA, LLC 0.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Metroplex Sportservice Inc 621 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cafe Valley Bakery West 621 FTE
NAT-SIZE Multnomah County Bldg 119 / Justice Center 621 FTE
NAT-SIZE Songer Services Incorporated 621 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: 2018, 2017. 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.