Low voltage electrical work · Virginia

Design Electric Inc.

Charlottesville, VA · ~177 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.1
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Design Electric Inc. runs at 76% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Low voltage electrical work workplace, earning a grade B.

Design Electric Inc.: 2.1 TCR = 76% of Low voltage electrical work BLS 2.8 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Design Electric Inc. safety composite

Design Electric Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 55% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 32%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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→2023

Design Electric Inc. injury rate improved

Design Electric Inc.'s TCR fell 0.4 from 3.5 in 2018 to 3.1 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2018 at 3.5 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.97× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=3.5 · 2019=2.4 · 2020=1.6 · 2021=1.3 · 2022=0.9 · 2023=3.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238210 · Charlottesville, VA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.1 · 76% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #51/80
  • PHOTO Building Electronic …
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~177 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Building Electronic Controls, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Design Electric Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Design Electric Inc. averages 2.1 TCR (76% of the Low voltage electrical work BLS benchmark).

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

Design Electric Inc. TCR series: 2018=3.5 · 2019=2.4 · 2020=1.6 · 2021=1.3 · 2022=0.9 · 2023=3.1 · BLS 2.8

Where Design Electric Inc. falls in its industry

4,550 Low voltage electrical work establishments

Safer than 55% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #51 safest of 80 Low voltage electrical work employers in Virginia.

Design Electric Inc. (177 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Design Electric Inc.
Design Electric Inc. (177 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Design Electric Inc. has more employees than the Low voltage electrical work median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2023 3.1 2.1 3 0 0
2022 0.9 0.9 1 0 0
2021 1.3 1.3 2 0 0
2020 1.6 1.1 3 0 0
2019 2.4 1.4 5 0 0
2018 3.5 2.2 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238210 · VA · Charlottesville

4,550 Low voltage electrical work employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 269 employers in Charlottesville, 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 Building Electronic Controls, Inc. 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Super Electric Construction Company 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gettle Incorporated 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Electric 2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Boxley Materials Company 177 FTE
STATE-SIZE Floyd 177 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lineal Technologies, Inc 177 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kaiser Aluminum Fabricated Products, LLC. 177 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Virginia 11,898 FTE
CITY-NEAR University Of Virginia (209) Health System 10,653 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Virginia Medical Center 8,738 FTE
CITY-NEAR UVA Medical Center 7,268 FTE
NAT-TCR Ridgewood Rehabilitation & Care Center 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Pratt Retail Specialties, LLC East Greenville, PA 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Hangar 2 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 927 Springfield Metro Expo 2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hydro City of Industry 177 FTE
NAT-SIZE Headquarters 177 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rc Orchards LLC 177 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ll Glenn Road LLC 177 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.