Private warehousing and storage, general merchandise · Connecticut

Designs For Health - Connecticut

Suffield, CT · ~56 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.2
Avg TCR
5.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Designs For Health - Connecticut runs at 55% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Private warehousing and storage, general merchandise workplace, earning a grade B.

Designs For Health - Connecticut: 3.2 TCR = 55% of Private warehousing and storage, general merchandise BLS 5.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Designs For Health - Connecticut safety composite

Designs For Health - Connecticut scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 26%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Designs For Health - Connecticut: 1.8 → 4.5 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 4.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.44× in 2021

Designs For Health - Connecticut's TCR rose 2.8 from 1.8 in 2020 to 4.5 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.44× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 493110 · Suffield, CT AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 3.2 · 55% of ind

  • DART 4.5 DART
  • RANK #15/78
  • PHOTO Rain Bird Corporatio…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~56 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Rain Bird Corporation Steele (0.0 TCR gap)

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Designs For Health - Connecticut in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Designs For Health - Connecticut averages 3.2 TCR (55% of the Private warehousing and storage, general merchandise BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

Designs For Health - Connecticut TCR series: 2020=1.8 · 2021=4.5 · BLS 5.8

Where Designs For Health - Connecticut falls in its industry

9,477 Private warehousing and storag establishments

Safer than 54% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Connecticut alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 78 Private warehousing and storag employers in Connecticut.

Designs For Health - Connecticut (56 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 92 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Designs For Health - Connecticut
Designs For Health - Connecticut (56 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 92 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Designs For Health - Connecticut has fewer employees than the Private warehousing and storage, general 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
2021 4.5 4.5 0 2 0
2020 1.8 1.8 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

493110 · CT · Suffield

9,477 Private warehousing and storage, general merchandise employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 24 employers in Suffield, CT · 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 Rain Bird Corporation Steele 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1911-19110010-001135 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pacific STIHL 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR CA - TJX 3.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kuhn Employment Opportunities, Inc 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Guilford Fire Department 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE JOHN J POLARIS CENTER 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Town of Portland - Fire Department 56 FTE
CITY-NEAR MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution 645 FTE
CITY-NEAR Suffield Manor Incorporated 228 FTE
CITY-NEAR CS Wholesale Grocers : Suffield, CT (GDC) 203 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kongsberg Automotive 179 FTE
NAT-TCR 1100 N. Eastern Ave. 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Miles Farmers Market 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Sam's Xpress Car Wash 320 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Mississippi Care Center of Raleigh 3.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Porterville 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Atlantic Elevator North 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dubuque Screw Products 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Foxland Kaukauna 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: 2021, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.