Housewares (except electric) merchant wholesalers · Oregon

Richards Homewares, Inc.

Portland, OR · ~44 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.7
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Richards Homewares, Inc. runs at 79% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Housewares (except electric) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade B.

Richards Homewares, Inc.: 1.7 TCR = 79% of Housewares (except electric) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Richards Homewares, Inc. safety composite

Richards Homewares, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 79% 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

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% 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

−3.6

2017→2022

Richards Homewares, Inc. injury rate improved

Richards Homewares, Inc.'s TCR fell 3.6 from 3.6 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2017 at 3.6 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=3.6 · 2018=0.0 · 2021=3.3 · 2022=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423220 · Portland, OR AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.7 · 79% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P70
  • PHOTO Safavieh L28
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~44 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Safavieh L28 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Richards Homewares, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Richards Homewares, Inc. averages 1.7 TCR (79% of the Housewares (except electric) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Richards Homewares, Inc. TCR series: 2017=3.6 · 2018=0 · 2021=3.3 · 2022=0 · BLS 2.2

Where Richards Homewares, Inc. falls in its industry

146 Housewares (except electric) m establishments

Safer than 70% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Richards Homewares, Inc. (44 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 68 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 Richards Homewares, Inc.
Richards Homewares, Inc. (44 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 68 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Richards Homewares, Inc. has fewer employees than the Housewares (except electric) merchant wh median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 3.3 3.3 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 3.6 3.6 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423220 · OR · Portland

146 Housewares (except electric) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 8,031 rated employers in Oregon with headcount on file · 1,728 employers in Portland, OR · 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 Safavieh L28 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR CDC Distributors Inc Cincinnati 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6330 N. Cutter Circle, Portland OR 97217 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR DESOTO 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Snake River Produce Co., LLC 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE KG Farms, Inc. 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE ACW Inc. 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stone Wolf Vineyards, Inc 44 FTE
CITY-NEAR OHSU Main Campus 18,003 FTE
CITY-NEAR OR349 PROVIDENCE ST VINCENT MEDICAL CTR-PORTLA 4,033 FTE
CITY-NEAR OR346 PROVIDENCE PORTLAND MEDICAL CTR-PORTLAND 3,684 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2252-00000530 3,498 FTE
NAT-TCR Yarde Metals, New Jersey 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR USE Karnes County Disposal, LLC 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Knotts Wholesale Foods 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 1507 - Old Saybrook 1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE NOL-ODFL 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Beecher's Handmade Cheese Seatac 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hsi Construction 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Union Rural Electric Cooperative 44 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: 2022, 2021, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.