Applicators, wood, manufacturing · Minnesota

Designed Cabinets, Inc.

Lakeville, MN · ~79 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Designed Cabinets, Inc. runs at 322% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Applicators, wood, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Designed Cabinets, Inc.: 10.6 TCR = 322% of Applicators, wood, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Designed Cabinets, Inc. safety composite

Designed Cabinets, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 11%), 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).

F

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Designed Cabinets, Inc.: 9.5 → 11.6 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 15.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.66× in 2024

Designed Cabinets, Inc.'s TCR rose 2.1 from 9.5 in 2018 to 11.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 15.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.66× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321999 · Lakeville, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.6 · 322% of ind

  • DART 7.0 DART
  • RANK #7/9
  • PHOTO Soil Amendments and …
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 64 inj
  • SIZE ~79 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Soil Amendments and Playground Chips (0.0 TCR gap)

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Designed Cabinets, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Designed Cabinets, Inc. averages 10.6 TCR (322% of the Applicators, wood, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Designed Cabinets, Inc. TCR series: 2018=9.5 · 2019=12.4 · 2020=12.8 · 2021=4.6 · 2022=15.4 · 2023=8.2 · 2024=11.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Designed Cabinets, Inc. falls in its industry

405 Applicators, wood, manufacturi establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 9 Applicators, wood, manufacturi employers in Minnesota.

Designed Cabinets, Inc. (79 employees, TCR 10.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 050100150200250300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Designed Cabinets, Inc.
Designed Cabinets, Inc. (79 employees, TCR 10.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Designed Cabinets, Inc. has more employees than the Applicators, wood, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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 11.6 7.0 10 0 0
2023 8.2 6.8 6 0 0
2022 15.4 8.3 13 0 0
2021 4.6 2.3 4 0 0
2020 12.8 5.8 11 0 0
2019 12.4 6.7 11 0 0
2018 9.5 6.3 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321999 · MN · Lakeville

405 Applicators, wood, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 141 employers in Lakeville, MN · 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 Soil Amendments and Playground Chips 10.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR AWPI-Beckley 10.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Smith Creek Inc 10.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Carris Reels NC 10.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Elcor Construction 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE ALLSTATES PAVEMENT RECYCLING & STABILIZATION, INC 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sir Lines A-Lot 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE USI (Hastings, MN) 79 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lakeville Technical Center 645 FTE
CITY-NEAR Schmitty & Sons 640 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hearthside Foods Solutions 634 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1484 - Lakeville 414 FTE
NAT-TCR Cambridge House 10.6 TCR
NAT-TCR FreshPoint Connecticut 10.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Inspir Carnegie Hill 10.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Amazon Delivery Station DUT4 ALDY 10.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE IFS Industries, Inc 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE Peterbilt of Wisconsin, Inc. - Madison 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE Oak-Technical Operations 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE Caniff Electric Supply - Hamtramck, MI 79 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, 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.