Furniture stores (e.g., household, office, outdoor) · Ohio

Design Within Reach

Batavia, OH · ~158 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.8
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Design Within Reach runs at 112% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Furniture stores (e.g., household, office, outdoor) workplace, earning a grade C.

Design Within Reach: 3.8 TCR = 112% of Furniture stores (e.g., household, office, outdoor) BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Design Within Reach safety composite

Design Within Reach scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 73% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.3

2022→2024

Design Within Reach injury rate improved

Design Within Reach's TCR fell 3.3 from 4.4 in 2022 to 1.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 6.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=4.4 · 2023=6.0 · 2024=1.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 442110 · Batavia, OH ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.8 · 112% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #44/81
  • PHOTO VCF 029
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~158 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: VCF 029 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Design Within Reach in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Design Within Reach averages 3.8 TCR (112% of the Furniture stores (e.g., household, office, outdoor) BLS benchmark).

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

Design Within Reach TCR series: 2022=4.4 · 2023=6 · 2024=1.1 · BLS 3.4

Where Design Within Reach falls in its industry

2,215 Furniture stores (e.g., househ establishments

Safer than 62% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #44 safest of 81 Furniture stores (e.g., househ employers in Ohio.

Design Within Reach (158 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 5.0 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Design Within Reach
Design Within Reach (158 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 5.0

Design Within Reach has more employees than the Furniture stores (e.g., household, offic median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.0. 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 1.1 0.0 1 0 0
2023 6.0 5.3 9 0 0
2022 4.4 2.7 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

442110 · OH · Batavia

2,215 Furniture stores (e.g., household, office, outdoor) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 52 employers in Batavia, OH · 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 VCF 029 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR White Marsh 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 152 New York Gallery 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Orem Store - 21 3.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Ferguson Construction Company - Sidney 158 FTE
STATE-SIZE Forest City Erectors Inc. 158 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cincinnati Crisco Plant 158 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ohio Valley Veneer 158 FTE
CITY-NEAR Clermont Hospital 749 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Health Clermont Hospital 709 FTE
CITY-NEAR Afton 708 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Hospital Clermont 669 FTE
NAT-TCR Second Life Mac 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Frontier Natural Gas 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Barnsco Dallas 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Denton, TX 3.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE ABIMAR FOODS South 158 FTE
NAT-SIZE Liberty Paper 158 FTE
NAT-SIZE L&R Structural Corp. Inc. 158 FTE
NAT-SIZE Articularis Healthcare Group 158 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. 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.