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 87 of 203| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vancouver Plant | Vancouver | Other Snack Food Manufacturi | D | 5.9 |
| O-I Kalama | Kalama | Deinking plants | D | 5.9 |
| 6400-Swy 0027 1594 | Tacoma | Supermarkets and Other Groce | D | 5.9 |
| 4186-02693 | Spokane | Dollar Stores | D | 5.9 |
| 701-00659 | Tumwater | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | D | 5.9 |
| Matson Navigation Company of Alaska, llc Tacoma | Tacoma | Intercoastal freight transpo | D | 5.9 |
| Washington State Ferries | Seattle | Passenger transportation, in | D | 5.9 |
| Oak Harbor - WW - 001 - AUB | Auburn | Transportation | D | 5.9 |
| KELSO_1368806 | Kelso | Mail and Parcel Delivery | D | 5.9 |
| 548054-Spokane Wa P&Dc | Spokane | Mail and Parcel Delivery | D | 5.9 |
| Wa642 Sacred Heart Medical Center-Spokane Hr | Spokane | General Medical and Surgical | B | 5.9 |
| Village Concepts of Milton, Mill Ridge Village | Milton | Assisted-living facilities w | D | 5.9 |
| Issaquah | Issaquah | Hospitality_Gaming | D | 5.9 |
| 30212107--Sea 40/45 Doppler/Tenant | Seattle | - | D | 5.9 |
| Sedro Woolley Country Store | Sedro Woolley | Farm supply stores | D | 5.9 |
| 6400-Swy 0027 1173 | Olympia | Supermarkets and Other Groce | D | 5.9 |
| People For People Yakima Transportation | Yakima | Paratransit transportation s | D | 5.9 |
| Canterbury Park | Longview | Lessors of Residential Build | F | 5.9 |
| Bogachiel Medical Clinic | Forks | General medical and surgical | B | 5.9 |
| Lourdes Medical Center - FNS | Pasco | - | D | 5.9 |
| Borton Orchards | Yakima | Apple orchards | D | 5.9 |
| Wilcox Construction LLC | Edmonds | Commercial building construc | F | 5.9 |
| Lakeside Industries - Greater Seattle | Issaquah | Pavement, highway, road, str | F | 5.9 |
| Hiller Spokane | Spokane Valley | 238220 Plumbing, Heating, an | F | 5.9 |
| Stoddard International, LLC | Arlington | Aircraft assemblies, subasse | D | 5.9 |
| Fairhaven Shipyard | Bellingham | Ship repair done in a shipya | D | 5.9 |
| Columbia Crest Winery | Woodinville | Alcoholic beverages, wine an | F | 5.9 |
| 6400-SWY-0027-0027-01473 | Spokane | Supermarkets and Other Groce | D | 5.9 |
| 6400-Swy 0027 1492 | Port Angeles | Supermarkets and Other Groce | D | 5.9 |
| Ross store 682 | Vancouver | Retail Store | D | 5.9 |
| 4186-06414 | Bonney Lake | Dollar Stores | D | 5.9 |
| LYNNWOOD_1371262 | Lynnwood | Mail and Parcel Delivery | D | 5.9 |
| Global Specialty Fulfillment : SWA1 | Everett | General Warehousing and Stor | C | 5.9 |
| Wa644 Holy Family Hospital-Spokane Hr | Spokane | General Medical and Surgical | B | 5.9 |
| Lakeside Industries (060) | Monroe | Pavement, highway, road, str | F | 5.8 |
| Les Schwab Tire Center-Port Angeles | Port Angeles | Tire dealers, automotive | D | 5.8 |
| 2807-0010 | Tukwila | Homecenter | D | 5.8 |
| 5461 | Vancouver | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | D | 5.8 |
| SEA-ODFL | Seattle | General Freight Trucking, lo | D | 5.8 |
| Haak Farm Administrative Services, Inc | Outlook | Apple orchards | D | 5.8 |
| 6400-Swy 0019 1687 | Washougal | Supermarkets and Other Groce | D | 5.8 |
| 661 | Washougal | Department stores, discount | D | 5.8 |
| Rader Farms, Inc. - Farm side | Lynden | Berry (except strawberry) fa | D | 5.8 |
| Hansen Logging, LLC | Chewelah | Logging | D | 5.8 |
| US-WA Redmond-B7 | Redmond | Aerial work platforms manufa | D | 5.8 |
| Swy-0027-0027-00490 Fac-00490-Bellevue-Wa | Bellevue | Supermarkets and Other Groce | D | 5.8 |
| Swy-0027-0027-01645 Fac-01645-Lakewood-Wa | Lakewood | Supermarkets and Other Groce | D | 5.8 |
| 4054-Abs 0026 0149 | Yakima | Supermarkets and Other Groce | D | 5.8 |
| 6400-Swy 0027 3424 | Tacoma | Supermarkets and Other Groce | D | 5.8 |
| PSL-Gig Harbor Court | Gig Harbor | Assisted-living facilities w | D | 5.8 |
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).
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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.