Materials Recovery Facilities · Washington

Seattle - 3rd Ave

Seattle, WA · ~60 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.0
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Seattle - 3rd Ave runs at 267% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Materials Recovery Facilities workplace, earning a grade F.

Seattle - 3rd Ave: 7.0 TCR = 267% of Materials Recovery Facilities BLS 2.6 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Seattle - 3rd Ave safety composite

Seattle - 3rd Ave scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 19%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.3

2017→2022

Seattle - 3rd Ave injury rate improved

Seattle - 3rd Ave's TCR fell 1.3 from 6.2 in 2017 to 4.9 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 11.7 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.71× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=6.2 · 2018=9.2 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=9.7 · 2021=11.7 · 2022=4.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562920 · Seattle, WA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.0 · 267% of ind

  • DART 4.9 DART
  • RANK #8/13
  • PHOTO S05652 - Dallas Cont…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 28 inj
  • SIZE ~60 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: S05652 - Dallas Container Shop (0.0 TCR gap)

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Seattle - 3rd Ave in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Seattle - 3rd Ave averages 7.0 TCR (267% of the Materials Recovery Facilities BLS benchmark).

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

Seattle - 3rd Ave TCR series: 2017=6.2 · 2018=9.2 · 2019=0 · 2020=9.7 · 2021=11.7 · 2022=4.9 · BLS 2.6

Where Seattle - 3rd Ave falls in its industry

422 Materials Recovery Facilities establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Washington alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 13 Materials Recovery Facilities employers in Washington.

Seattle - 3rd Ave (60 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 3.8 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Seattle - 3rd Ave
Seattle - 3rd Ave (60 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Seattle - 3rd Ave has more employees than the Materials Recovery Facilities median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.8. 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
2022 4.9 4.9 2 0 0
2021 11.7 9.8 6 0 0
2020 9.7 6.0 8 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 9.2 5.3 7 0 0
2017 6.2 3.7 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562920 · WA · Seattle

422 Materials Recovery Facilities employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,147 rated employers in Washington with headcount on file · 1,279 employers in Seattle, 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 S05652 - Dallas Container Shop 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR East Hazel Crest 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Entech, Inc 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Minneapolis MRF 7.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Columbia Crest Estate Vineyards #10 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE FV Clipper Surprise 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cascade Natural Gas General office 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sammamish Plateau Water & Sewer District 60 FTE
CITY-NEAR UW Seattle 32,378 FTE
CITY-NEAR The United States of America 25,000 FTE
CITY-NEAR Starz Entertainment 25,000 FTE
CITY-NEAR UW Medical Center - Montlake and NW 11,307 FTE
NAT-TCR Biewer Sawmill Lake City 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Eversource - Epping 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 0401 - Morena Ca Whse 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 054440-Loma Linda Po 7.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE St Pete 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sacramento Ca (Striker Ave) Depot 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE Santa Clara 31090 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4795-AA-CMH-COLUMBUS-CMH-TRML 60 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 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.