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

Wayside Furniture, Inc.

Name: Wayside Furniture, Inc. Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Akron, OH · ~169 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 4.3
Avg TCR: 3.4
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Wayside Furniture, Inc. runs at 128% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Furniture stores (e.g., household, office, outdoor) workplace, earning a grade D.

Wayside Furniture, Inc.: 4.3 TCR = 128% of Furniture stores (e.g., household, office, outdoor) BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Wayside Furniture, Inc. safety composite

Wayside Furniture, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 58% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 45%), 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).

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 4.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% of industry peers
DART rate: D 0.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% 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

Wayside Furniture, Inc.: 3.7 → 5.0 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 5.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.16× in 2023

Wayside Furniture, Inc.'s TCR rose 1.3 from 3.7 in 2022 to 5.0 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.16× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 4.3 · 128% of ind

DART 0.7 DART
RANK #51/81
PHOTO Kanes Furniture - St…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 12 inj
SIZE ~169 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kanes Furniture - St. Petersburg Store (0.0 TCR gap)

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ROCKAWAY

4.4
Clearwater Cle

4.4
This site

4.3
Kanes Furnitur

4.3
4535-1310

4.3

What this shows Wayside Furniture, Inc. averages 4.3 TCR (128% of the Furniture stores (e.g., household, office, outdoor) BLS benchmark).

Wayside Furniture, Inc. TCR series: 2022=3.7 · 2023=5 · BLS 3.4

Where Wayside Furniture, Inc. falls in its industry

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

Safer than 58% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.0.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #51 safest of 81 Furniture stores (e.g., househ employers in Ohio.

Wayside Furniture, Inc. (169 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 5.0

Wayside Furniture, Inc. 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
2023	5.0	0.7	7	0	0
2022	3.7	1.5	5	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

442110 · OH · Akron

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 · 512 employers in Akron, OH · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Kanes Furniture - St. Petersburg Store	ST. PETERSBURG, FL	4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	4535-1310	AUGUSTA, GA	4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	ROCKAWAY	ROCKAWAY, NJ	4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Clearwater Clearence - #904	CLEARWATER, FL	4.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Pennsylvania Power Company	YOUNGSTOWN	169 FTE
STATE-SIZE	The Austin Co.	CLEVELAND	169 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Mason, Ohio	MASON	169 FTE
STATE-SIZE	PCS Nitrogen Ohio L.P.	LIMA	169 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Children's Hospital Medical Center of Akron	Akron	6,746 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Akron Children's Hospital	Akron	6,060 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Summa Health - Akron City	Akron	4,801 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Akron General Medical Center	Akron	4,176 FTE
NAT-TCR	Ongna Wood 1	Sheboygan Falls, WI	4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Meadowlark Health Services, LLC	Eau Claire, WI	4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	West Point Tours Inc. Vails Gate	New Windsor, NY	4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Wheel Pros 1501	Auburn, AL	4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Oxford, CT #248	Oxford, CT	169 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Barnes Aerospace Lansing Division	Lansing, MI	169 FTE
NAT-SIZE	West Side Hammer Electric	Bethlehem, PA	169 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Evonik Superabsorber LLC	Greensboro, NC	169 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: 2023, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.