Furniture springs, light gauge, unassembled, made from purchased wire or strip · Missouri

Flex-O-Lators

Carthage, MO · ~218 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Flex-O-Lators runs at 138% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Furniture springs, light gauge, unassembled, made from purchased wire or strip workplace, earning a grade D.

Flex-O-Lators: 4.5 TCR = 138% of Furniture springs, light gauge, unassembled, made from purchased wire or strip BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Flex-O-Lators safety composite

Flex-O-Lators scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 66% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 48%), 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).

C

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% 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

−4.2

2016→2017

Flex-O-Lators injury rate improved

Flex-O-Lators's TCR fell 4.2 from 6.7 in 2016 to 2.4 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 6.7 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0.23× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.7 · 2017=2.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332613 · Carthage, MO ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.5 · 138% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #4/6
  • PHOTO Matthew Warren Inc.
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~218 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Matthew Warren Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Flex-O-Lators in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Flex-O-Lators averages 4.5 TCR (138% of the Furniture springs, light gauge, unassembled, made from purchased wire or strip BLS benchmark).

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

Flex-O-Lators TCR series: 2016=6.7 · 2017=2.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Flex-O-Lators falls in its industry

189 Furniture springs, light gauge establishments

Safer than 48% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Missouri alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 6 Furniture springs, light gauge employers in Missouri.

Flex-O-Lators (218 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 68 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Flex-O-Lators
Flex-O-Lators (218 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 68 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Flex-O-Lators has more employees than the Furniture springs, light gauge, unassemb median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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
2017 2.4 1.0 6 1 0
2016 6.7 2.5 16 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332613 · MO · Carthage

189 Furniture springs, light gauge, unassembled, made from purchased wire or strip employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,075 rated employers in Missouri with headcount on file · 58 employers in Carthage, MO · 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 Matthew Warren Inc. 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dudek & Bock Spring Manufacturing Co 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Associated Spring Milwaukee Division 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jackson Spring & Manufacturing Co., Inc. 4.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Red Monkey Foods, Inc. 218 FTE
STATE-SIZE Modine Manufacturing Company - Joplin 218 FTE
STATE-SIZE KCNSC East 218 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 82 218 FTE
CITY-NEAR Carthage Plant 825 FTE
CITY-NEAR Schreiber Foods Fairview Plant 702 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fairview Plant 684 FTE
CITY-NEAR Carthage Spring #0001 519 FTE
NAT-TCR Kentucky Correctional Psychiatric Center (KCPC) 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Hermiston Center (Orhrm) 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Evergreen Home Healthcare-Fort Collins 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #4557 San Jose, Ca 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Saginaw (Misag) 218 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2073-EJ-20730203-MX 218 FTE
NAT-SIZE BTD Manufacturing Dawsonville 218 FTE
NAT-SIZE Republic National Distributing Company 12 218 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: 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.