Couriers and Express Delivery Services · Washington

Wakel - Kelso

Kelso, WA · ~90 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
11.6
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Wakel - Kelso runs at 179% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Couriers and Express Delivery Services workplace, earning a grade D.

Wakel - Kelso: 11.6 TCR = 179% of Couriers and Express Delivery Services BLS 6.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Wakel - Kelso safety composite

Wakel - Kelso scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 27%), 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

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

DART rate
C 3.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% 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%).

TCR Δ

−5.8

2019→2023

Wakel - Kelso injury rate improved

Wakel - Kelso's TCR fell 5.8 from 9.1 in 2019 to 3.3 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 20.5 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.28× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=9.1 · 2020=9.0 · 2021=20.5 · 2022=16.3 · 2023=3.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 492110 · Kelso, WA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 11.6 · 179% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK #87/168
  • PHOTO Amazon.com Services …
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 39 inj
  • SIZE ~90 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Amazon.com Services LLC - DFL3 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Wakel - Kelso in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Wakel - Kelso averages 11.6 TCR (179% of the Couriers and Express Delivery Services BLS benchmark).

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

Wakel - Kelso TCR series: 2019=9.1 · 2020=9 · 2021=20.5 · 2022=16.3 · 2023=3.3 · BLS 6.5

Where Wakel - Kelso falls in its industry

6,679 Couriers and Express Delivery establishments

Safer than 27% 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 #87 safest of 168 Couriers and Express Delivery employers in Washington.

Wakel - Kelso (90 employees, TCR 11.6) 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 Wakel - Kelso
Wakel - Kelso (90 employees, TCR 11.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 8.0

Wakel - Kelso has fewer employees than the Couriers and Express Delivery Services 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
2023 3.3 3.3 1 0 0
2022 16.3 14.9 12 0 0
2021 20.5 15.0 15 0 0
2020 9.0 6.0 6 0 0
2019 9.1 7.2 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

492110 · WA · Kelso

6,679 Couriers and Express Delivery Services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,147 rated employers in Washington with headcount on file · 35 employers in Kelso, 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 Amazon.com Services LLC - DFL3 11.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR FedEx 4470 WARM SPRINGS ROAD 11.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Waves Logistics Inc 11.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 503210010 11.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Weber Farms 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE 100852 - SR 520 Floating Bridge and Landings 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE Boone Electric Puyallup 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE MacDonald-Miller Facility Solutions, Inc. Norfolk Shop 90 FTE
CITY-NEAR Public Works - Parks 621 FTE
CITY-NEAR Public Works Kelso Shop 621 FTE
CITY-NEAR Admin Annex - Weeds 621 FTE
CITY-NEAR Building & Planning 621 FTE
NAT-TCR Medford #044 11.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Vaden of Beaufort 11.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority - Cerone Division 11.6 TCR
NAT-TCR The Frog, Switch & Manufacturing Company 11.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Motion Systems : Machesney Park 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE Domico Med-Device 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE Steel Technologies Murfreesboro 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE Elite Roofing Supply-AZ, LLC 90 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. 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.