Other Direct Selling Establishments · Washington

Seattle Cold Storage

Tacoma, WA · ~34 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Seattle Cold Storage runs at 156% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Other Direct Selling Establishments workplace, earning a grade D.

Seattle Cold Storage: 5.3 TCR = 156% of Other Direct Selling Establishments BLS 3.4 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Seattle Cold Storage safety composite

Seattle Cold Storage scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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

Seattle Cold Storage: 0.0 → 11.8 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 11.8 TCR · DART/TCR 2.21× in 2023

Seattle Cold Storage's TCR rose 11.8 from 0.0 in 2017 to 11.8 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 2.21× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 454390 · Tacoma, WA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.3 · 156% of ind

  • DART 11.8 DART
  • RANK #2/7
  • PHOTO 2077-US DD NW N HAVE…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~34 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 2077-US DD NW N HAVEN BRANCH (0.0 TCR gap)

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Seattle Cold Storage in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Seattle Cold Storage averages 5.3 TCR (156% of the Other Direct Selling Establishments BLS benchmark).

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

Seattle Cold Storage TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=11.7 · 2020=0 · 2022=8.4 · 2023=11.8 · BLS 3.4

Where Seattle Cold Storage falls in its industry

212 Other Direct Selling Establish establishments

Safer than 34% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

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 7 Other Direct Selling Establish employers in Washington.

Seattle Cold Storage (34 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 37 employees and a TCR of 4.1 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Seattle Cold Storage
Seattle Cold Storage (34 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 37 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Seattle Cold Storage has fewer employees than the Other Direct Selling Establishments median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.1. 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
2023 11.8 11.8 3 0 0
2022 8.4 8.4 2 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 11.7 7.8 3 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

454390 · WA · Tacoma

212 Other Direct Selling Establishments employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,147 rated employers in Washington with headcount on file · 445 employers in Tacoma, 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 2077-US DD NW N HAVEN BRANCH 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2077-US DD NW VENTURA BRANCH 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR NW HOUSTON, TX 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR BEDFORD, VA 5.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE M & G Farms Inc 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dobbe Farms, LLC 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Benjert Farms Inc 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kettle Falls Logging - WP 34 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tacoma General Hospital (Companied 10 & 20) 3,718 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Tacoma 3,689 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tacoma General Hospital 3,247 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2643-46080001-460801 3,061 FTE
NAT-TCR Colchester #230 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR St. Mark's Living 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Andersen'S Sales & Salvage, Inc. 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Main Office 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE 436-NiSource-Cranberry PA-MOD Site 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE 220-NiSource-Gary IN-GM&T 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Miky Transport Company Inc. 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE 3196 Keystone Automotive Garner 34 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: 2023, 2022, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.