Chair and couch springs, assembled, manufacturing · California

Burton James

City of Industry, CA · ~70 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Burton James runs at 116% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Chair and couch springs, assembled, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Burton James: 3.8 TCR = 116% of Chair and couch springs, assembled, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Burton James safety composite

Burton James scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 59% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 33%), 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).

D

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% 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

Burton James: 2.7 → 4.9 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 4.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.86× in 2019

Burton James's TCR rose 2.2 from 2.7 in 2018 to 4.9 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.86× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 337121 · City of Industry, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.8 · 116% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK #5/22
  • PHOTO Church Chairs of Ame…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~70 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Church Chairs of America (0.0 TCR gap)

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Burton James in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Burton James averages 3.8 TCR (116% of the Chair and couch springs, assembled, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Burton James TCR series: 2018=2.7 · 2019=4.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Burton James falls in its industry

300 Chair and couch springs, assem establishments

Safer than 59% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 22 Chair and couch springs, assem employers in California.

Burton James (70 employees, TCR 3.8) 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 Burton James
Burton James (70 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Burton James has fewer employees than the Chair and couch springs, assembled, manu median and a lower 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 4.9 3.3 3 0 0
2018 2.7 2.7 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

337121 · CA · City of Industry

300 Chair and couch springs, assembled, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 226 employers in City of Industry, CA · 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 Church Chairs of America 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Plant # 2 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Overman USA, Inc. 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Klaussner Plant 1, 7 3.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Heritage Land Company 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ceballos Ag Services, Inc. 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE NRTHN 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE EW Merritt Farms 70 FTE
CITY-NEAR Morrow-Meadows Corporation 1,879 FTE
CITY-NEAR 050109-INDUSTRY CA P&DC 781 FTE
CITY-NEAR INDUSTRY_1441491 704 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kellwood Apparel, LLC 489 FTE
NAT-TCR Consulate Health Care of West Palm Beach 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Allied Wichita 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 14200 Sw Brigadoon 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-Swy 0027 0335 3.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Insource Performance Solutions at Cummins Rocky Mount 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Short's Brewing Company Production Facility 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Prairie Farms 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE New Products Corporation 70 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, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.