Port facility operation · Alaska

Ward Cove Dock Group, LLC

Ketchikan, AK · ~41 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.2
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ward Cove Dock Group, LLC runs at 137% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Port facility operation workplace, earning a grade D.

Ward Cove Dock Group, LLC: 6.2 TCR = 137% of Port facility operation BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ward Cove Dock Group, LLC safety composite

Ward Cove Dock Group, LLC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 55% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 30%), 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% 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

Ward Cove Dock Group, LLC: 0.0 → 3.9 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 15.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.32× in 2024

Ward Cove Dock Group, LLC's TCR rose 3.9 from 0.0 in 2021 to 3.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 15.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.32× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488310 · Ketchikan, AK ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.2 · 137% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK P30
  • PHOTO Port of Longview
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~41 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Port of Longview (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ward Cove Dock Group, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ward Cove Dock Group, LLC averages 6.2 TCR (137% of the Port facility operation BLS benchmark).

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

Ward Cove Dock Group, LLC TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=5 · 2023=15.7 · 2024=3.9 · BLS 4.5

Where Ward Cove Dock Group, LLC falls in its industry

81 Port facility operation establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Ward Cove Dock Group, LLC (41 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 62 employees and a TCR of 4.2 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Ward Cove Dock Group, LLC
Ward Cove Dock Group, LLC (41 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 62 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Ward Cove Dock Group, LLC has fewer employees than the Port facility operation median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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 3.9 2.0 2 0 0
2023 15.7 0.0 8 0 0
2022 5.0 0.0 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488310 · AK · Ketchikan

81 Port facility operation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,558 rated employers in Alaska with headcount on file · 34 employers in Ketchikan, AK · 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 Port of Longview 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Port of Tacoma 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Negociado Maritimo 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Negociado Maritimo - Muelles ABC y D 5.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bethel Contracting LLC 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Circle Plumbing & Heating Inc 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE AK002 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE ROTAK Helicopter Services, LLC 41 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ketchikan Medical Center 488 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dept. of Transportation & Public Facilities (85) 389 FTE
CITY-NEAR Vigor Industrial 144 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2710 139 FTE
NAT-TCR Southern Living Contractors, Inc 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 3410 - Scotts Valley 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Grand Rapids Building Services, Inc 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Lakewood Elementary School 6.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Connor Fine Painting 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Haydon Corporation CA 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE The King Co., Inc. 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pratt (Converting Division, San Antonio) LLC 41 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, 2022, 2021. 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.