Chair and couch springs, assembled, manufacturing · Iowa

Flexsteel Industries- Dubuque Operations

Name: Flexsteel Industries- Dubuque Operations Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Dubuque, IA · ~213 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 5.3
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Flexsteel Industries- Dubuque Operations runs at 161% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Chair and couch springs, assembled, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Flexsteel Industries- Dubuque Operations: 5.3 TCR = 161% of Chair and couch springs, assembled, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Flexsteel Industries- Dubuque Operations safety composite

Flexsteel Industries- Dubuque Operations scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 39%), 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).

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 5.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers
DART rate: D 2.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% 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

Flexsteel Industries- Dubuque Operations: 3.3 → 7.3 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 7.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.55× in 2019

Flexsteel Industries- Dubuque Operations's TCR rose 4.0 from 3.3 in 2018 to 7.3 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.55× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 337121 · Dubuque, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.3 · 161% of ind

DART 2.9 DART
RANK #4/4
PHOTO Plant 4
BOOK 2y book
INJ 20 inj
SIZE ~213 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Plant 4 (0.0 TCR gap)

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5.3
Plant 4

5.3
Flexsteel Indu

5.3
Intermoutain F

5.3
Huntington Hou

5.2

What this shows Flexsteel Industries- Dubuque Operations averages 5.3 TCR (161% of the Chair and couch springs, assembled, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Flexsteel Industries- Dubuque Operations TCR series: 2018=3.3 · 2019=7.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Flexsteel Industries- Dubuque Operations falls in its industry

300 Chair and couch springs, assem establishments

Safer than 39% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 4 Chair and couch springs, assem employers in Iowa.

Flexsteel Industries- Dubuque Operations (213 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Flexsteel Industries- Dubuque Operations has more employees than the Chair and couch springs, assembled, manu 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	7.3	2.9	13	2	0
2018	3.3	1.4	7	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

337121 · IA · Dubuque

300 Chair and couch springs, assembled, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 217 employers in Dubuque, IA · 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 4	CLEVELAND, TN	5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Flexsteel Industries Riverside	RIVERSIDE, CA	5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Intermoutain Furniture	SALT LAKE CITY, UT	5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Huntington House	HICKORY, NC	5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE	1152	SIOUX CENTER	213 FTE
STATE-SIZE	2714	SPENCER	213 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Sunrise Retirement Community	SIOUX CITY	213 FTE
STATE-SIZE	CJ Bio America	FORT DODGE	212 FTE
CITY-NEAR	John Deere Dubuque Works	Dubuque	2,518 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Mercy Medical Center-Dubuque-MHS-IA/NE	Dubuque	1,296 FTE
CITY-NEAR	MercyOne Dubuque	Dubuque	1,285 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Hirschbach Motor Lines, Inc	Dubuque	1,110 FTE
NAT-TCR	4054-Abs 0021 4223	Fort Worth, TX	5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Umicore PMC - Catoosa/Tulsa	Catoosa, OK	5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	6400-Swy 0020 3054	The Woodlands, TX	5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	6400-Swy 0027 0329	Tacoma, WA	5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Vopak Deer Park	Deer Park, TX	213 FTE
NAT-SIZE	FedEx Supply Chain - Fulfillment Greenwood	Greenwood, IN	213 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Cardinal IG - Roanoke IG	Vinton, VA	213 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Hmc P-2	Bay Springs, MS	213 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.