Food Service Contractors · Virginia

Design Cuisine Kitchen

Arlington, VA · ~56 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Design Cuisine Kitchen runs at 63% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Food Service Contractors workplace, earning a grade B.

Design Cuisine Kitchen: 1.9 TCR = 63% of Food Service Contractors BLS 3.0 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Design Cuisine Kitchen safety composite

Design Cuisine Kitchen scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 76% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 25%), 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

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% 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%).

Design Cuisine Kitchen held a steady TCR band

Design Cuisine Kitchen's TCR held near 0.2 from 3.9 in 2021 to 3.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 3.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.94× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=3.9 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=3.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722310 · Arlington, VA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.9 · 63% of ind

  • DART 3.7 DART
  • RANK #64/212
  • PHOTO SODEXO AT FBI HEADQU…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~56 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SODEXO AT FBI HEADQUARTERS (0.0 TCR gap)

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Design Cuisine Kitchen in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Design Cuisine Kitchen averages 1.9 TCR (63% of the Food Service Contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Design Cuisine Kitchen TCR series: 2021=3.9 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=3.7 · BLS 3.0

Where Design Cuisine Kitchen falls in its industry

6,952 Food Service Contractors establishments

Safer than 76% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #64 safest of 212 Food Service Contractors employers in Virginia.

Design Cuisine Kitchen (56 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Design Cuisine Kitchen
Design Cuisine Kitchen (56 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Design Cuisine Kitchen has more employees than the Food Service Contractors median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 3.7 3.7 2 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 3.9 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722310 · VA · Arlington

6,952 Food Service Contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 250 employers in Arlington, VA · 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 SODEXO AT FBI HEADQUARTERS 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR SODEXO AT USAA SAN ANTONIO CAFE AB 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR METLIFE 3RD FL CAFE 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Porsche LA - Restaurant 917 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE PACKING HOUSE 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE PORTSMOUTH DIST 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE 206-NiSource-Fredericksburg VA-Commerce 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Atlantic Contruction Utilities INC. 56 FTE
CITY-NEAR Virginia Hospital Center 3,475 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4795-AA-DCA-WASHINGTON - REAGAN NATIONAL-DCA-TRML 1,944 FTE
CITY-NEAR Headquarters and Company 1,521 FTE
CITY-NEAR EMCOR Government Services 1,167 FTE
NAT-TCR TMX2466 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Legacy Hotel Partners CHA1 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Dot Transportation, Inc. Cambridge City, IN 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Rieth-Riley - Cal-Region 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Spruill Ave. 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE St. Joseph Residence Management Grp 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Greif (MG TACOMA) 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Superior Residences of Panama City Beach 56 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.