TCR, interpreted
Far above average
6.8 avg TCR
State profile · OSHA ITA
Washington workplace safety
How 10,147 OSHA-reporting employers across Washington compare on workplace injuries, 2016–2024. Average TCR uses the 9,081 establishments with a credible rate (see methodology).
- 10,147
- Employers
- 6.8
- Avg TCR (rated)
- 228,759
- Injuries (all)
- 104
- Fatalities (all)
Washington vs all states by OSHA-reporting employer count
Where this state's ITA establishment inventory sits among every tracked state and territory (coverage signal, not a safety ranking)
10,147 17th of 54 higher than 37 of 54 states
States and territories, banded by OSHA ITA reporting employer count
Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more states. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source official public datasets · 2026
The state picture
Washington's 9,081 rated reporting employers average 6.8 recordable injuries per 100 workers, 2.5 times the ~2.7 all-industry private-sector norm.
- 6.8
- avg TCR · rated subset
- 9,081
- rated employers
- 10,147
- all reporting employers
- 228,759
- recordable injuries (all)
Inventory counts and injury/fatality totals cover all 10,147 ITA establishments; the average TCR excludes zero-rate and corrupt-hours filings. See Methodology → Three Populations.
A · 10% B · 9% C · 23% D · 23% F · 35%
35% of Washington's reporting establishments earn an F and 10% an A, each measured against its own industry benchmark, not the state line. These grades are a transparent derived index, not an official OSHA rating; see the Methodology for the exact formula.
Where Washington ranks among states
54 states & territories by avg TCRWashington's average TCR of 6.8 is lower than 6% of states, a state average reflects industry mix as much as workplace safety.
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A second cut tells a different story: ranked by rated-subset injury rate alone, Washington is #51 of 54. Ranked instead by fatalities per rated employer establishment (same 9,081-employer subset), it's #10 of 54, a 41-place swing. A state can run a moderate everyday injury rate while its rarer, most severe incidents cluster differently; the two metrics measure different things on the same population and shouldn't be read as interchangeable.
How Washington Workplaces Compare
Washington hosts 10,147 employer establishments currently reporting to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. These are not small shops: federal rules require ITA submission from workplaces with 250+ employees in any industry, plus workplaces with 20+ employees in the roughly 60 NAICS codes classified as high-hazard (construction, manufacturing, healthcare, warehousing, agriculture, and others). Across this Washington cohort, workers have logged 228,759 recordable injuries. The published state average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 6.8 injuries per 100 full-time workers uses the 9,081 establishments with a credible rate (zero-rate and corrupt-hours filings stay in the inventory counts above but are excluded from the average, see methodology).
The state has recorded 104 workplace fatalities in the reporting window, which is tracked separately from non-fatal injury counts because fatal events have their own investigation trail under 29 CFR 1904.39. Reading state-level TCR requires context: the headline figure is driven by a state's industry mix. A state with a heavy construction, logging, or meatpacking footprint will mechanically post higher TCR than a state dominated by finance or professional services, even when individual employers are equally well-managed. That is why the employer table below sorts each establishment by its own TCR and letter grade, against the BLS benchmark for its specific industry, not against the state average.
For jobseekers, relocators, investors, and local safety professionals, state-level pages function as an entry point: use the grade-sorted list to spot the safest and highest-risk employers in Washington, then click through to an individual establishment for its year-by-year injury, illness, DART, and fatality trajectory. Compare multiple years before drawing conclusions, a single outlier year can reflect a specific event, whereas a sustained pattern across reporting cycles is a more reliable risk signal. All data comes directly from employer-submitted OSHA Form 300A summaries. State OSHA plans in 22 states operate their own enforcement programs in parallel, but the injury data above is harmonized through the federal ITA system.
Employers in Washington, by injury rate
Page 157 of 203| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 461 - Tacoma | Puyallup | Industrial Launderers | C | 1.9 |
| 104668 - Seattle Marine Yard 2021 | Seattle | Construction machinery and e | C | 1.9 |
| Virginia Mason Patient Observa | Seattle | - | B | 1.9 |
| Seattle | Redmond | Low voltage electrical work | B | 1.9 |
| Kent Wa Plant | Kent | Commercial Bakeries | B | 1.9 |
| Port of Vancouver | Vancouver | Ready-mix concrete manufactu | B | 1.9 |
| Hyatt Place Seattle | Seattle | Hotels (except casino hotels | B | 1.9 |
| Bainbridge Island WA Yard | Bainbridge Island | Other Building Material Deal | B | 1.8 |
| Korean Women's Association - Snohomish Lynnwood | Lynnwood | Home Health Agency | A | 1.8 |
| Visual Options | Tacoma | Septic tanks, plastics or fi | B | 1.8 |
| Lydig Construction | Spokane | Commercial building construc | B | 1.8 |
| Markham Plant | Aberdeen | Dried and Dehydrated Food Ma | B | 1.8 |
| Richland, Wa - 142 | Richland | Industrial Launderers | C | 1.8 |
| Axis Medical Staffing Inc | Seattle | Temporary staffing services | B | 1.8 |
| Era Living LLC | Seattle | Residential property managin | D | 1.8 |
| 6400-Swy 0019 0307 | Walla Walla | Supermarkets and Other Groce | B | 1.8 |
| Radia Corporate | Lynnwood | Radiologists' offices (e.g., | A | 1.8 |
| Stirrett Johnsen, Inc. | Silverdale | Plumbing contractors | B | 1.8 |
| Lakewood_IFS | Lakewood | Construction management, oil | B | 1.8 |
| Main Office & Field | Oak Harbor | Electrical contractors | B | 1.8 |
| Spokane Valley WA | Spokane Valley | General Line Grocery Merchan | C | 1.8 |
| DCC : 5094-00 Wilcox Farms/Roy, WA | Roy | Transportation | A | 1.8 |
| WA - Spokane, 1717 E Buckeye Ave | Spokane | Cable and Other Subscription | F | 1.8 |
| Geras LLC - Bellevue | Bellevue | Home care of elderly, medica | A | 1.8 |
| WA State Liquor and Cannabis Board | Olympia | Licensing and permit issuanc | B | 1.8 |
| Ross store 44 | Tukwila | Retail Store | B | 1.8 |
| Wood Stone | Bellingham | Ovens, bakery, manufacturing | B | 1.8 |
| 674 | Cheney | Department stores, discount | B | 1.8 |
| Farrelli's Lacey | Lacey | Full service restaurants | B | 1.8 |
| Yakima District Office | Yakima | Distribution of natural gas | D | 1.8 |
| Kaiser Aluminum Richland | Richland | Tube made by drawing or extr | B | 1.8 |
| GTS Kirkland | Kirkland | Drywall and related building | C | 1.8 |
| Algona | Algona | Other Snack Food Manufacturi | A | 1.8 |
| 1410 Union Gap | Union Gap | Department Store | B | 1.8 |
| 2662-9021 | Seattle | Bus and Other Motor Vehicle | A | 1.8 |
| From The Heart | Pasco | Assisted-living facilities w | A | 1.8 |
| Holmberg Mechanical | Bellevue | Mechanical contractors | B | 1.8 |
| 6400-Swy 0027 0496 | Redmond | Supermarkets and Other Groce | B | 1.8 |
| FXI - Longview | Longview | Foam plastics products (exce | B | 1.8 |
| Domex Superfresh Growers | Yakima | Fruits, fresh, merchant whol | C | 1.8 |
| HopeSparks | Tacoma | Mental health centers and cl | A | 1.8 |
| Knight Orchards Inc | Naches | Agriculture production or ha | A | 1.8 |
| Leavenworth (Park Village) - Sales | Leavenworth | Hotels and Motels | B | 1.8 |
| Western Specialty Contractors - Seattle | Kent | Masonry contractors | B | 1.8 |
| Swy-0027-0027-02980 Fac-02980-Seattle-Wa | Seattle | Supermarkets and Other Groce | B | 1.8 |
| SeaCast Inc Marysville | Marysville | Steel investment foundries | B | 1.8 |
| Knutzen Farms LP | Burlington | Vegetable and potato farming | A | 1.8 |
| Vancouver Hauling | Vancouver | Garbage collection services | B | 1.8 |
| Hyatt Place Downtown/Seattle | Seattle | Hotels (except casino hotels | B | 1.8 |
| Hurst Construction, LLC | East Wenatchee | Road construction | B | 1.8 |
Nationwide states with similar injury rates or employer scale
Two PlainSafetyScore-derived peer sets for Washington: nearest states and territories by rated-subset average Total Case Rate and by OSHA-reporting employer inventory. These are cross-state neighborhoods, not the employer list above.
Similar average TCR
Nearest states by rated-subset Total Case Rate (6.8 here).
Similar employer inventory
Nearest states by reporting employer count (10,147 here).
Look up a Washington employer → · Compare all states → · How TCR is measured →
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainSafetyScore
Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.