Courier Services Except by Air · Washington

Tacoma (Watac)

Fife, WA · ~263 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
17.5
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Tacoma (Watac) runs at 270% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Courier Services Except by Air workplace, earning a grade F.

Tacoma (Watac): 17.5 TCR = 270% of Courier Services Except by Air BLS 6.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tacoma (Watac) safety composite

Tacoma (Watac) scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 6%), 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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 17.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
F 18.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Tacoma (Watac): 10.1 → 21.3 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 21.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.06× in 2018

Tacoma (Watac)'s TCR rose 11.2 from 10.1 in 2016 to 21.3 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.06× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 492110 · Fife, WA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 17.5 · 270% of ind

  • DART 18.6 DART
  • RANK #137/168
  • PHOTO Inspire Logistics LLC
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 93 inj
  • SIZE ~263 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Inspire Logistics LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Tacoma (Watac) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Tacoma (Watac) averages 17.5 TCR (270% of the Courier Services Except by Air BLS benchmark).

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

Tacoma (Watac) TCR series: 2016=10.1 · 2017=21.1 · 2018=21.3 · BLS 6.5

Where Tacoma (Watac) falls in its industry

6,679 Courier Services Except by Air establishments

Safer than 9% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 8.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Washington alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #137 safest of 168 Courier Services Except by Air employers in Washington.

Tacoma (Watac) (263 employees, TCR 17.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 8.0 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Tacoma (Watac)
Tacoma (Watac) (263 employees, TCR 17.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 8.0

Tacoma (Watac) has more employees than the Courier Services Except by Air median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 8.0. 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
2018 21.3 18.6 38 2 0
2017 21.1 16.4 39 1 0
2016 10.1 8.4 16 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

492110 · WA · Fife

6,679 Courier Services Except by Air employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,147 rated employers in Washington with headcount on file · 90 employers in Fife, 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 Inspire Logistics LLC 17.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR FedEx 98 WEST GATE 17.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR IDMRI - MERIDIAN CENTER 17.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 89 17.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Keytronic R&A 263 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 5853 263 FTE
STATE-SIZE 701-00615 263 FTE
STATE-SIZE 0112 - WENATCHEE WA WHSE 263 FTE
CITY-NEAR Puyallup Tribe of Indians Emerald Queen Hotel & Casinos 2,236 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - RNT9 816 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1323 34th Ave E 474 FTE
CITY-NEAR Milgard Windows & Doors -- Tacoma Manufacturing 381 FTE
NAT-TCR Alcal Riverside Multi-Product 17.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Robbinsdale a Villa Center 17.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 282700-Festus Po 17.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 4795-Pd-Sts-Santa Rosa-Sts-Pdmt 17.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pioneer Natural Resources USA, Inc. - Permian Drilling and Completions 263 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2073-EJ-20730180-IF 263 FTE
NAT-SIZE Solvay Mill 263 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fraser Villa 263 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.