Cabinets, kitchen, built in, merchant wholesalers · Connecticut

Viking Kitchen Cabinets, LLC d/b/a/ Surfaces

New Britain, CT · ~41 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
26.9
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities

The verdict

Viking Kitchen Cabinets, LLC d/b/a/ Surfaces runs at 1223% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cabinets, kitchen, built in, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

F
Failing Safety Record
26.9
avg TCR · per 100 workers
2.2
industry benchmark (BLS)
42
recordable injuries tracked

Grade compares Viking Kitchen Cabinets, LLC d/b/a/ Surfaces's OSHA Total Case Rate of 26.9 to the Cabinets, kitchen, built in, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark of 2.2 (1223% of benchmark) across 4 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). <a href="/methodology">See methodology</a> for reporting-limitation caveats.

Injury rate over time

Viking Kitchen Cabinets, LLC d/b/a/ Surfaces's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 2.2 industry benchmark.

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Total Case Rate (recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers), OSHA ITA Form 300A. Industry benchmark: BLS IIF, NAICS 423310.

Where Viking Kitchen Cabinets, LLC d/b/a/ Surfaces falls in its industry

1,405 Cabinets, kitchen, built in, m establishments

Safer than 0% 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 15 Cabinets, kitchen, built in, m employers in Connecticut.

Trend analysis for Viking Kitchen Cabinets, LLC d/b/a/ Surfaces

Between 2017 and 2022, Viking Kitchen Cabinets, LLC d/b/a/ Surfaces's Total Case Rate improved from 32.0 to 20.2 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 37% decrease across 5 years of OSHA reporting.

The safest year on record was 2021, at a TCR of 18.4, while 2020 saw the highest rate, at 37.0, a spread of 18.6 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a wide swing relative to the establishment's overall rate, worth checking the year-by-year table below for whether a single severe year is driving the average, rather than a sustained trend.

Summed across those 4 reporting years, Viking Kitchen Cabinets, LLC d/b/a/ Surfaces recorded 42 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 4-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.

Verify This Employer with OSHA

The 42 injuries, 3 illnesses shown on this page for Viking Kitchen Cabinets, LLC d/b/a/ Surfaces are sourced from its own 4 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.

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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 423310 - Cabinets, kitchen, built in, merchant wholesalers.

DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2022)

What is the DART rate formula?

DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.

6 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 59,365 hours worked = 20.21 DART

Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping

Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State

Benchmark TCR Source
Viking Kitchen Cabinets, LLC d/b/a/ Surfaces (this establishment) 26.91 OSHA ITA Form 300A, 4-year avg
Doors and door frames merchant wholesalers industry avg 2.20 BLS IIF, NAICS 423310
Connecticut state avg (all industries) 6.15 OSHA ITA, state-level rollup

Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program

Reportable Incident Timeline

Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Viking Kitchen Cabinets, LLC d/b/a/ Surfaces to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.

Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2022 20.2 20.2 6 0 0
2021 18.4 18.4 7 2 0
2020 37.0 19.6 17 0 0
2017 32.0 22.2 12 1 0

What this grade means for you

Use this grade as a relative read on Viking Kitchen Cabinets, LLC d/b/a/ Surfaces's reported OSHA injury record versus its Cabinets, kitchen, built in, merchant wholesalers peers, not a verdict on whether any single site is safe today.

  • At 1223% of the Cabinets, kitchen, built in, merchant wholesalers benchmark, Viking Kitchen Cabinets, LLC d/b/a/ Surfaces reports more injuries than typical peers, ask specifically how the employer is reducing them. Know your rights
  • Judge this record against the wider Cabinets, kitchen, built in, merchant wholesalers sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
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Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Viking Kitchen Cabinets, LLC d/b/a/ Surfaces's safety grade?
Viking Kitchen Cabinets, LLC d/b/a/ Surfaces has a safety grade of F (Failing Safety Record). This grade is based on their average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 26.9 compared to the BLS industry benchmark of 2.2 for Cabinets, kitchen, built in, merchant wholesalers.
How many injuries has Viking Kitchen Cabinets, LLC d/b/a/ Surfaces reported?
Viking Kitchen Cabinets, LLC d/b/a/ Surfaces has reported 42 total injuries and 0 fatalities across 4 years of OSHA data (2022, 2021, 2020, 2017). This data comes from mandatory OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA) reports.

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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, 2020, 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. Retrieved and formatted by PlainSafetyScore Editorial

Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.