# Work Right NW

> Work Right NW is a Woodland, Washington workplace-health company that embeds athletic trainers, physical therapists and other movement specialists in labor-intensive worksites. Its clinicians coach workers, address early discomfort within first-aid boundaries, assess ergonomics and use movement data to find risk before it becomes an injury claim. The company sells employers a proactive alternative to the familiar sequence of pain, incident, claim and treatment.

- **Founded:** 2014
- **Headquarters:** Woodland, United States
- **Founders:** Nic Patee (Co-founder, President and CEO), Mindy Patee (Co-founder, CFO and Principal)
- **Team size:** Approximately 150 employees in supplied company intelligence; LinkedIn lists 51-200 employees.
- **Products:** Onsite Injury Prevention Services, PREPARED Leader Train the Trainer, Wearable Technology Assessments, Ergonomic Analysis, Content and Education
- **Notable:** Reached its 10-year anniversary in August 2024., Reported more than 1 million one-to-one interactions between industrial athletes and Injury Prevention Specialists across its first decade., Reported an average 35% reduction in musculoskeletal injury claims during the first 12 months of implementation, with some clients reportedly reaching 50-60%; these are company-reported outcomes.

## Products & services

- **Onsite Injury Prevention Services** — Embedded athletic trainers, physical therapists and movement specialists provide early symptom intervention, first aid, floor walks, job coaching, preventative exercise and ergonomic workplace assessments.
- **PREPARED Leader Train the Trainer** — A workplace training system built around an eight-part daily checklist covering warm-ups, hazards, equipment, lifting posture, alignment, the Green Zone, shoulder position and recovery.
- **Wearable Technology Assessments** — Sensor-based task assessments quantify repetitive motion and overexertion risk, producing pre- and post-control scores plus recommendations for risk mitigation.
- **Ergonomic Analysis** — Objective observation and assessment of work tasks to identify physical exposures and prioritize engineering, process or coaching changes.
- **Content and Education** — Toolbox talks, weekly Industrial Athlete Digest material, videos, multilingual posters, infographics and a 90-day new-worker program.
- **Integrated Injury Prevention with Medcor** — A combined offering linking Work Right's prevention specialists with Medcor onsite clinics and telehealth triage for a wider continuum from prevention to treatment.

## Achievements

- Reached its 10-year anniversary in August 2024.
- Reported more than 1 million one-to-one interactions between industrial athletes and Injury Prevention Specialists across its first decade.
- Reported an average 35% reduction in musculoskeletal injury claims during the first 12 months of implementation, with some clients reportedly reaching 50-60%; these are company-reported outcomes.
- Reported more than 500 injuries prevented per week across client locations in its 2024 anniversary announcement.
- Led a 15-month, Washington state-supported wearable study of 17 volunteer loggers with Chilton Logging and dorsaVi.
- Joined an exclusive integrated injury-prevention partnership with Medcor in 2023.
- Serves employers across 33 states, according to a public biography of Nic Patee.

## Latest updates

- **2026-07** — Work Right clinicians Tori Meyer and Samuel Brosseau were promoted for a Granite List webinar on turning workplace-health metrics into actionable injury-prevention decisions.
- **2026-05** — The company continued publishing Industrial Athlete education focused on acting on early soreness during pre-shift warm-ups.
- **2026-04** — Work Right published new training content on the first 90 days of demanding work and the need to build capacity progressively.
- **2025-07** — Its weekly education program continued with multilingual material on the Green Zone, core strength, workstation setup and footwear.
- **2024-08** — Work Right marked its tenth anniversary and reported more than 1 million clinician-worker interactions over the decade.
- **2023-09** — Medcor and Work Right announced an exclusive Integrated Injury Prevention partnership.

## Links

- Website: https://workrightnw.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/work-right-nw
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/workrightnw
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCocj3LQIWQtHPmoKdxTB-mA
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/workrightnorthwest/
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/workrightnw

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Last updated: 2026-08-22