Recreational sports club facilities · Washington

Whatcom Family YMCA

Bellingham, WA · ~296 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.6
Avg TCR
3.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Whatcom Family YMCA runs at 85% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Recreational sports club facilities workplace, earning a grade C.

Whatcom Family YMCA: 2.6 TCR = 85% of Recreational sports club facilities BLS 3.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Whatcom Family YMCA safety composite

Whatcom Family YMCA scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 68% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 33%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% 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

−0.4

2018→2019

Whatcom Family YMCA injury rate improved

Whatcom Family YMCA's TCR fell 0.4 from 2.8 in 2018 to 2.5 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 2.8 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.62× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=2.8 · 2019=2.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 713940 · Bellingham, WA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.6 · 85% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #2/4
  • PHOTO Varsity Spirit, LLC …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~296 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Varsity Spirit, LLC - Gym (0.0 TCR gap)

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Whatcom Family YMCA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Whatcom Family YMCA averages 2.6 TCR (85% of the Recreational sports club facilities BLS benchmark).

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

Whatcom Family YMCA TCR series: 2018=2.8 · 2019=2.5 · BLS 3.1

Where Whatcom Family YMCA falls in its industry

629 Recreational sports club facil establishments

Safer than 68% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Washington alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 4 Recreational sports club facil employers in Washington.

Whatcom Family YMCA (296 employees, TCR 2.6) 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 0100200300400 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Whatcom Family YMCA
Whatcom Family YMCA (296 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 62 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Whatcom Family YMCA has more employees than the Recreational sports club facilities median and a lower 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
2019 2.5 1.6 3 0 0
2018 2.8 0.7 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

713940 · WA · Bellingham

629 Recreational sports club facilities employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,147 rated employers in Washington with headcount on file · 210 employers in Bellingham, 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 Varsity Spirit, LLC - Gym 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR LACES Pool 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Natomas Racquet Club 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 14375 YMCA OF HONOLULU 2.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE USNR Woodland 296 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 2187 296 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stroum Jewish Community Center 296 FTE
STATE-SIZE Top en Twel LLC 297 FTE
CITY-NEAR Western Washington University 3,794 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Joseph Medical Center Main Campus 2,537 FTE
CITY-NEAR North American Operations - Matrix Service Inc. 2,063 FTE
CITY-NEAR PHMG SJMC Clinics 864 FTE
NAT-TCR Direct Plastics - Coldwater 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR NDX Mallow Tru 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Riverside Drive Plaza 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Senior Health Center 2.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE City of Dyersburg 296 FTE
NAT-SIZE Grand Orlando Hotel 296 FTE
NAT-SIZE QSC 296 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pensacola Bay Bridge 296 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: 2019, 2018. 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.