Soccer clubs, professional or semiprofessional · Washington

Seattle Sounders FC

Name: Seattle Sounders FC Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Seattle, WA · ~274 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 5.8
Avg TCR: 3.1
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Seattle Sounders FC runs at 188% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Soccer clubs, professional or semiprofessional workplace, earning a grade D.

Seattle Sounders FC: 5.8 TCR = 188% of Soccer clubs, professional or semiprofessional BLS 3.1 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Seattle Sounders FC safety composite

Seattle Sounders FC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% 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).

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 5.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers
DART rate: F 4.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.7

2017→2023

Seattle Sounders FC injury rate improved

Seattle Sounders FC's TCR fell 0.7 from 8.7 in 2017 to 7.9 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2019 at 8.7 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.82× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=8.7 · 2018=4.7 · 2019=8.7 · 2020=2.3 · 2021=6.3 · 2022=2.2 · 2023=7.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 711211 · Seattle, WA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.8 · 188% of ind

DART 4.8 DART
RANK P40
PHOTO Crew SC Team Company
BOOK 7y book
INJ 66 inj
SIZE ~274 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Crew SC Team Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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2039-WHITE SOX

5.9
This site

5.8
Crew SC Team C

5.8
Portland Trail

5.8
2039-EVENT SER

5.7

What this shows Seattle Sounders FC averages 5.8 TCR (188% of the Soccer clubs, professional or semiprofessional BLS benchmark).

Seattle Sounders FC TCR series: 2017=8.7 · 2018=4.7 · 2019=8.7 · 2020=2.3 · 2021=6.3 · 2022=2.2 · 2023=7.9 · BLS 3.1

Where Seattle Sounders FC falls in its industry

157 Soccer clubs, professional or establishments

Safer than 40% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Seattle Sounders FC (274 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 206 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Seattle Sounders FC has more employees than the Soccer clubs, professional or semiprofes median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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
2023	7.9	4.8	15
2022	2.2	1.1	6
2021	6.3	1.6	8
2020	2.3	1.6	3
2019	8.7	4.4	14
2018	4.7	2.0	7
2017	8.7	0.0	13

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

711211 · WA · Seattle

157 Soccer clubs, professional or semiprofessional 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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Crew SC Team Company	BEREA, OH	5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Portland Trail Blazers / Rip City Management	PORTLAND, OR	5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	2039-WHITE SOX - MAJOR	CHICAGO, IL	5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	2039-EVENT SERVICES	DENVER, CO	5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Alexandria Moulding - NSS	MOXEE	274 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Coho Distributing LLC - Everett	EVERETT	274 FTE
STATE-SIZE	701-00171	BREMERTON	274 FTE
STATE-SIZE	701-00053	COVINGTON	274 FTE
CITY-NEAR	UW Seattle	Seattle	32,378 FTE
CITY-NEAR	The United States of America	Seattle	25,000 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Starz Entertainment	Seattle	25,000 FTE
CITY-NEAR	UW Medical Center - Montlake and NW	Seattle	11,307 FTE
NAT-TCR	Mobile Power Generators, LLC dba Power Technology Southeast	Leesburg, FL	5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Food City 162	Phoenix, AZ	5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	H&H Wallboard, Inc.	Livermore, CA	5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Scientific Metal Finishing, Inc.	Santa Clara, CA	5.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE	American Spraytech LLC	Branchburg, NJ	274 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Signet Maritime Corporation	Houston, TX	274 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Comfortex Corporation	Watervliet, NY	274 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Market Basket #57	Milford, NH	274 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, 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.