Flagging (i.e., traffic control) services · Washington

Safety Signs, Inc.

Bellingham, WA · ~28 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.8
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Safety Signs, Inc. runs at 30% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Flagging (i.e., traffic control) services workplace, earning a grade A.

Safety Signs, Inc.: 0.8 TCR = 30% of Flagging (i.e., traffic control) services BLS 2.6 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Safety Signs, Inc. safety composite

Safety Signs, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 91% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 26%), 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

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

Safety Signs, Inc.: 0.0 → 3.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 3.9 TCR · DART/TCR 5.01× in 2024

Safety Signs, Inc.'s TCR rose 3.9 from 0.0 in 2020 to 3.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 5.01× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561990 · Bellingham, WA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.8 · 30% of ind

  • DART 3.9 DART
  • RANK #1/8
  • PHOTO Hudson Safe T Lite R…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hudson Safe T Lite Rentals (0.0 TCR gap)

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Safety Signs, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Safety Signs, Inc. averages 0.8 TCR (30% of the Flagging (i.e., traffic control) services BLS benchmark).

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

Safety Signs, Inc. TCR series: 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=3.9 · BLS 2.6

Where Safety Signs, Inc. falls in its industry

208 Flagging (i.e., traffic contro establishments

Safer than 91% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

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 8 Flagging (i.e., traffic contro employers in Washington.

Safety Signs, Inc. (28 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Safety Signs, Inc.
Safety Signs, Inc. (28 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Safety Signs, Inc. has fewer employees than the Flagging (i.e., traffic control) service median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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 3.9 3.9 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561990 · WA · Bellingham

208 Flagging (i.e., traffic control) services 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 Hudson Safe T Lite Rentals 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 121 Brodheadsville 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Traffic Management LLC 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ridgeland, MS 0.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Wapatox 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Canoe Ridge Estate Vineyards #12 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Long Ranch LLC 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE SS BAILEY NURSERIES INC 28 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 Republic Services of Bella Vista 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR BRB Contractors 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR The Gillette Company LLC 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Normandale Community College 0.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE TriGreen Equipment Snead 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Peoples Construction Corporation 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mound City Grain Elevator 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Evansville Grain Elevator Z57 28 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, 2022, 2021, 2020. 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.