Chairs, upholstered household-type (except dining room, kitchen), manufacturing · Indiana

Best Home Furnishings - Cutting & Sewing

Ferdinand, IN · ~102 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Best Home Furnishings - Cutting & Sewing runs at 258% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Chairs, upholstered household-type (except dining room, kitchen), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Best Home Furnishings - Cutting & Sewing: 8.5 TCR = 258% of Chairs, upholstered household-type (except dining room, kitchen), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Best Home Furnishings - Cutting & Sewing safety composite

Best Home Furnishings - Cutting & Sewing scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 14%), 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).

F

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

−7.5

2016→2019

Best Home Furnishings - Cutting & Sewing injury rate improved

Best Home Furnishings - Cutting & Sewing's TCR fell 7.5 from 12.3 in 2016 to 4.8 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2016 at 12.3 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.4× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=12.3 · 2019=4.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 337121 · Ferdinand, IN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.5 · 258% of ind

  • DART 3.4 DART
  • RANK #23/27
  • PHOTO BEHOLD WASHINGTON, L…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~102 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: BEHOLD WASHINGTON, LLC-SMITHVILLE (0.0 TCR gap)

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Best Home Furnishings - Cutting & Sewing in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Best Home Furnishings - Cutting & Sewing averages 8.5 TCR (258% of the Chairs, upholstered household-type (except dining room, kitchen), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Best Home Furnishings - Cutting & Sewing TCR series: 2016=12.3 · 2019=4.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Best Home Furnishings - Cutting & Sewing falls in its industry

300 Chairs, upholstered household- establishments

Safer than 14% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #23 safest of 27 Chairs, upholstered household- employers in Indiana.

Best Home Furnishings - Cutting & Sewing (102 employees, TCR 8.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 05001,0001,5002,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Best Home Furnishings - Cutting & Sewing
Best Home Furnishings - Cutting & Sewing (102 employees, TCR 8.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Best Home Furnishings - Cutting & Sewing has fewer employees than the Chairs, upholstered household-type (exce median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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
2019 4.8 3.4 7 0 0
2016 12.3 6.8 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

337121 · IN · Ferdinand

300 Chairs, upholstered household-type (except dining room, kitchen), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 25 employers in Ferdinand, IN · 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 BEHOLD WASHINGTON, LLC-SMITHVILLE 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Best Home Furnishings/Distribution Center 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Emerald Mississippi LLC 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Klaussner Plant 15 8.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Tipmont REMC 102 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bee Window 102 FTE
STATE-SIZE Berry-It Inc 102 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bloomington 35 102 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ferdinand, IN 1,668 FTE
CITY-NEAR Masterbrand Cabinets LLC 1,639 FTE
CITY-NEAR Best Home Furnishings/Chair Division 302 FTE
CITY-NEAR Best Home Furnishings - Chair Division 251 FTE
NAT-TCR Wehmeier Drywall, Inc. 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Fleet Operations Training 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Windsor Senior Living 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR First Care Health Care 26-3869479 8.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Michels Power- CA 102 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Lhp Bay Food 102 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pflugerville Nursing and Rehabilitation Center 102 FTE
NAT-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Champaign 102 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: 2019, 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.