Household-type furniture, upholstered, manufacturing · Florida

Windward Design Group, Inc

Sarasota, FL · ~119 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities

The verdict

Windward Design Group, Inc runs at 154% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Household-type furniture, upholstered, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.1
avg TCR · per 100 workers
3.3
industry benchmark (BLS)
34
recordable injuries tracked

Grade compares Windward Design Group, Inc's OSHA Total Case Rate of 5.1 to the Household-type furniture, upholstered, manufacturing BLS benchmark of 3.3 (154% of benchmark) across 6 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). <a href="/methodology">See methodology</a> for reporting-limitation caveats.

Injury rate over time

Windward Design Group, Inc's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 3.3 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 337121.

Where Windward Design Group, Inc falls in its industry

311 Household-type furniture, upho establishments

Safer than 41% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Trend analysis for Windward Design Group, Inc

Between 2016 and 2023, Windward Design Group, Inc's Total Case Rate improved from 7.3 to 3.1 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 58% decrease across 7 years of OSHA reporting.

The safest year on record was 2018, at a TCR of 1.6, while 2020 saw the highest rate, at 8.4, a spread of 6.7 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 6 reporting years, Windward Design Group, Inc recorded 34 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 6-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 34 injuries shown on this page for Windward Design Group, Inc are sourced from its own 6 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 337121 - Household-type furniture, upholstered, manufacturing.

DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2023)

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.

3 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 195,208 hours worked = 3.07 DART

Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping

Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State

Benchmark TCR Source
Windward Design Group, Inc (this establishment) 5.08 OSHA ITA Form 300A, 6-year avg
Sofas, upholstered, manufacturing industry avg 3.30 BLS IIF, NAICS 337121
Florida state avg (all industries) 4.57 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 Windward Design Group, Inc 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
2023 3.1 3.1 3 0 0
2020 8.4 1.1 8 0 0
2019 6.7 1.7 8 0 0
2018 1.6 0.8 2 0 0
2017 3.3 1.7 4 0 0
2016 7.3 3.3 9 0 0

What this grade means for you

Use this grade as a relative read on Windward Design Group, Inc's reported OSHA injury record versus its Household-type furniture, upholstered, manufacturing peers, not a verdict on whether any single site is safe today.

  • At 154% of the Household-type furniture, upholstered, manufacturing benchmark, Windward Design Group, Inc reports more injuries than typical peers, ask specifically how the employer is reducing them. Know your rights
  • Judge this record against the wider Household-type furniture, upholstered, manufacturing sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
  • Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another

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 Windward Design Group, Inc's safety grade?
Windward Design Group, Inc has a safety grade of D (Poor Safety Record). This grade is based on their average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 5.1 compared to the BLS industry benchmark of 3.3 for Household-type furniture, upholstered, manufacturing.
How many injuries has Windward Design Group, Inc reported?
Windward Design Group, Inc has reported 34 total injuries and 0 fatalities across 6 years of OSHA data (2023, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016). 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: 2023, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.