Employer · Washington

Starbucks

Seattle, WA · ~23 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Starbucks runs at 141% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade D.

Starbucks: 4.2 TCR = 141% of industry BLS 3.0 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Starbucks safety composite

Starbucks scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 41%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% 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

−6.3

2018→2023

Starbucks injury rate improved

Starbucks's TCR fell 6.3 from 6.3 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2020 at 11.4 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=6.3 · 2019=3.5 · 2020=11.4 · 2021=0.0 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722310 · Seattle, WA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.2 · 141% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #70/124
  • PHOTO Comcast-Cafe & Rest*
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Comcast-Cafe & Rest* (0.0 TCR gap)

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Starbucks in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Starbucks averages 4.2 TCR (141% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Starbucks TCR series: 2018=6.3 · 2019=3.5 · 2020=11.4 · 2021=0 · 2023=0 · BLS 3.0

Where Starbucks falls in its industry

6,952 industry establishments

Safer than 41% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Washington alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #70 safest of 124 industry employers in Washington.

Starbucks (23 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Starbucks
Starbucks (23 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Starbucks has fewer employees than the industry median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 11.4 11.4 1 0 0
2019 3.5 3.5 1 0 0
2018 6.3 3.1 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722310 · WA · Seattle

6,952 industry 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 Comcast-Cafe & Rest* 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Central Falls Public Schools 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR SEBASTIAN RIVER MED CTR 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pioneer College Caterers, Inc. - Unit 019/University of the Cumberlands 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE NORTHWEST PRODUCTION & FARMING 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kahala Farms LLC. 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rayonier PNW Hoquiam 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rayonier PNW Poulsbo 23 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 Central Falls Public Schools 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Comcast-Cafe & Rest* 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Permocast Corporation 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 6340-VIKING-001020_US_S0129 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Intel FM5 Cafe 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE TAMU Tarleton Gr 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bethesda Southgate 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE 7500 York 23 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.