Cordage (except wire) manufacturing · Washington

Samson Ferndale WA

Ferndale, Wa 98248, WA · ~200 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Samson Ferndale WA runs at 99% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Cordage (except wire) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Samson Ferndale WA: 3.3 TCR = 99% of Cordage (except wire) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Samson Ferndale WA safety composite

Samson Ferndale WA scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 56% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 48%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Samson Ferndale WA: 3.0 → 3.5 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 3.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.53× in 2020

Samson Ferndale WA's TCR rose 0.4 from 3.0 in 2019 to 3.5 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0.53× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 314994 · Ferndale, Wa 98248, WA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.3 · 99% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK P48
  • PHOTO Mehler Engineered Pr…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~200 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mehler Engineered Products (0.1 TCR gap)

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Samson Ferndale WA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Samson Ferndale WA averages 3.3 TCR (99% of the Cordage (except wire) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

Samson Ferndale WA TCR series: 2019=3 · 2020=3.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Samson Ferndale WA falls in its industry

31 Cordage (except wire) manufact establishments

Safer than 48% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Samson Ferndale WA (200 employees, TCR 3.3) among 24 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 110 employees and a TCR of 3.3 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 25 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 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Samson Ferndale WA
Samson Ferndale WA (200 employees, TCR 3.3) among 24 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 110 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Samson Ferndale WA has more employees than the Cordage (except wire) manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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
2020 3.5 1.7 4 2 0
2019 3.0 1.5 5 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

314994 · WA · Ferndale, Wa 98248

31 Cordage (except wire) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,147 rated employers in Washington with headcount on file · 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 Mehler Engineered Products 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fenner Dunlop Americas - Lavonia 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kordsa Laurel Hill 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gastonia (FSFT) 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - DSE8 200 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dick Zais Center for Law & Justice 200 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3742 200 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cogir at the Quarry 200 FTE
NAT-TCR New Standard Corporation - Rocky Mount Facility 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Rural Fuels 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Waste Industries Nashville 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Brian Center Health & Rehabilitation/Hickory East 3.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Breakthru Beverage Delaware 200 FTE
NAT-SIZE Harrisburg Distribution Center - ABARTA Coca Cola Beverages 200 FTE
NAT-SIZE FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies Texas, LLC 200 FTE
NAT-SIZE Precision Valve & Automation INC 200 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: 2020, 2019. 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.