Milk processing (e.g., bottling, homogenizing, pasteurizing, vitaminizing) manufacturing · Washington

Smith Brothers Farms Kent

Kent, WA · ~192 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Smith Brothers Farms Kent runs at 340% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Milk processing (e.g., bottling, homogenizing, pasteurizing, vitaminizing) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Smith Brothers Farms Kent: 11.2 TCR = 340% of Milk processing (e.g., bottling, homogenizing, pasteurizing, vitaminizing) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Smith Brothers Farms Kent safety composite

Smith Brothers Farms Kent scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
F 16.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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

Smith Brothers Farms Kent: 5.5 → 16.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 16.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.51× in 2024

Smith Brothers Farms Kent's TCR rose 11.4 from 5.5 in 2023 to 16.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.51× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311511 · Kent, WA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 11.2 · 340% of ind

  • DART 16.9 DART
  • RANK #7/8
  • PHOTO 258
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 23 inj
  • SIZE ~192 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 258 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Smith Brothers Farms Kent in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Smith Brothers Farms Kent averages 11.2 TCR (340% of the Milk processing (e.g., bottling, homogenizing, pasteurizing, vitaminizing) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Smith Brothers Farms Kent TCR series: 2023=5.5 · 2024=16.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Smith Brothers Farms Kent falls in its industry

457 Milk processing (e.g., bottlin establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Washington alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 8 Milk processing (e.g., bottlin employers in Washington.

Smith Brothers Farms Kent (192 employees, TCR 11.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 140 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Smith Brothers Farms Kent
Smith Brothers Farms Kent (192 employees, TCR 11.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 140 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Smith Brothers Farms Kent has more employees than the Milk processing (e.g., bottling, homogen median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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 16.9 16.9 11 0 0
2023 5.5 1.8 12 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311511 · WA · Kent

457 Milk processing (e.g., bottling, homogenizing, pasteurizing, vitaminizing) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,147 rated employers in Washington with headcount on file · 367 employers in Kent, 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 258 11.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Upstate Niagara Cooperative Inc - West Seneca 11.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Royal Crest Dairy, Inc 11.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Upstate Niagara Cooperative Inc - Rochester 11.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Northern Fruit Associates LLC 192 FTE
STATE-SIZE 103440 - E130 Seattle to South Bellevue 192 FTE
STATE-SIZE TK Elevator Tacoma 192 FTE
STATE-SIZE Franz Family Bakeries - 6th Avenue 192 FTE
CITY-NEAR Blue Origin 3,939 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : BFI4 2,994 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - BFI4 2,961 FTE
CITY-NEAR WA006 2,529 FTE
NAT-TCR Professional Plumbing Corp. 11.2 TCR
NAT-TCR ABF Freight 055 11.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Socal Construction & Clean Up, Inc. 11.2 TCR
NAT-TCR CSL Red Oak 2018, LLC 11.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sayre Christian Village 192 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jet Delivery LLC 192 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cahuilla Casino Hotel 192 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ncchp - Chapel Hill 192 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.