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

Best Home Furnishings/Chair Division

Name: Best Home Furnishings/Chair Division Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Ferdinand, IN · ~302 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 7.6
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Best Home Furnishings/Chair Division runs at 232% 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/Chair Division: 7.6 TCR = 232% of Chairs, upholstered household-type (except dining room, kitchen), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Best Home Furnishings/Chair Division safety composite

Best Home Furnishings/Chair Division scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 10%), 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).

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 7.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers
DART rate: F 7.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Best Home Furnishings/Chair Division: 3.3 → 12.0 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 12.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.97× in 2018

Best Home Furnishings/Chair Division's TCR rose 8.8 from 3.3 in 2017 to 12.0 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.97× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 7.6 · 232% of ind

DART 7.4 DART
RANK #20/27
PHOTO Plant 1
BOOK 2y book
INJ 38 inj
SIZE ~302 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Plant 1 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Plant 1

7.7
Vanguard Frame

7.7
Paladin Indust

7.7
This site

7.6
Plant # 4

7.6

What this shows Best Home Furnishings/Chair Division averages 7.6 TCR (232% of the Chairs, upholstered household-type (except dining room, kitchen), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Best Home Furnishings/Chair Division TCR series: 2017=3.3 · 2018=12 · BLS 3.3

Where Best Home Furnishings/Chair Division falls in its industry

300 Chairs, upholstered household- establishments

Safer than 19% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #20 safest of 27 Chairs, upholstered household- employers in Indiana.

Best Home Furnishings/Chair Division (302 employees, TCR 7.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Best Home Furnishings/Chair 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
2018	12.0	7.4	26	0	0
2017	3.3	1.6	12	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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Plant 1	CLEVELAND, TN	7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Plant # 4	NEWTON, NC	7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Vanguard Frame VGF	CONOVER, NC	7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Paladin Industries Inc	HIDDENITE, NC	7.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Winnebago of Indiana, LLC	MIDDLEBURY	302 FTE
STATE-SIZE	WM 1142	SCOTTSBURG	302 FTE
STATE-SIZE	TransCorr Leasing Venture - Lafayette	LAFAYETTE	302 FTE
STATE-SIZE	LCI - 39	SOUTH BEND	302 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Ferdinand, IN	Ferdinand	1,668 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Masterbrand Cabinets LLC	Ferdinand	1,639 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Best Home Furnishings - Chair Division	Ferdinand	251 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Best Home Furnishings/Recliner	Ferdinand	205 FTE
NAT-TCR	PRCC	Orange City, IA	7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Store 1499	Sorrento, FL	7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Miller's Bakery Inc.-5th Street	Milwaukee, WI	7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Family Health Adult Counseling Center	San Diego, CA	7.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE	CS Wholesale Grocers : Stockton, CA (PDC)	Stockton, CA	302 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Weidmann Electrical Technology Inc-St. Johnsbury	St Johnbury, VT	302 FTE
NAT-SIZE	ECDC-IDI	Southbrunswick, NJ	302 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Presbyterian El Camino	Albuquerque, NM	302 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: 2018, 2017. 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.