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

Best Home Furnishings - Recliner Division

Ferdinand, IN · ~197 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Best Home Furnishings - Recliner Division runs at 247% 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 - Recliner Division: 8.2 TCR = 247% of Chairs, upholstered household-type (except dining room, kitchen), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Best Home Furnishings - Recliner Division safety composite

Best Home Furnishings - Recliner Division scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 15%), 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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% 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

−5.2

2016→2019

Best Home Furnishings - Recliner Division injury rate improved

Best Home Furnishings - Recliner Division's TCR fell 5.2 from 10.8 in 2016 to 5.5 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2016 at 10.8 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.48× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=10.8 · 2019=5.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 8.2 · 247% of ind

  • DART 3.9 DART
  • RANK #22/27
  • PHOTO Klaussner Plant 15
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 35 inj
  • SIZE ~197 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Klaussner Plant 15 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Best Home Furnishings - Recliner Division in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Best Home Furnishings - Recliner Division averages 8.2 TCR (247% 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 - Recliner Division TCR series: 2016=10.8 · 2019=5.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Best Home Furnishings - Recliner Division falls in its industry

300 Chairs, upholstered household- establishments

Safer than 15% 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 #22 safest of 27 Chairs, upholstered household- employers in Indiana.

Best Home Furnishings - Recliner Division (197 employees, TCR 8.2) 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 - Recliner Division
Best Home Furnishings - Recliner Division (197 employees, TCR 8.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Best Home Furnishings - Recliner Division has more 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 5.5 3.9 10 0 0
2016 10.8 5.6 25 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 Klaussner Plant 15 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Modernica Inc 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 145 LCI 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Craftmaster Furniture, Inc. 7.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE AUSTIN C/C IN 197 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wabash Mill 197 FTE
STATE-SIZE Silgan Plastics 197 FTE
STATE-SIZE Oasis Lifestyle LLC 197 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 Wilmington Division 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Presence Resurrection Retirement Community 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Ethan Allen Design Center - Margate FL 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR TNI - Charleston, MO 8.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ancra Group : Kinedyne-Alabama 197 FTE
NAT-SIZE Life Care Center of the North Shore 197 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sidney Operations 197 FTE
NAT-SIZE Honeywell Anniston R&O 197 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.