Foam plastics products (except polystrene) manufacturing · Mississippi

Independent Furniture Supply

Name: Independent Furniture Supply Workplace Safety Data
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Tupelo, MS · ~295 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 5.8
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Independent Furniture Supply runs at 175% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Foam plastics products (except polystrene) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Independent Furniture Supply: 5.8 TCR = 175% of Foam plastics products (except polystrene) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Independent Furniture Supply safety composite

Independent Furniture Supply scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 20%), 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).

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 5.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers
DART rate: F 3.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% 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

−0.7

2016→2019

Independent Furniture Supply injury rate improved

Independent Furniture Supply's TCR fell 0.7 from 6.5 in 2016 to 5.8 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2016 at 6.5 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.56× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.5 · 2018=5.0 · 2019=5.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326150 · Tupelo, MS ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.8 · 175% of ind

DART 3.3 DART
RANK #22/23
PHOTO Foamcraft Mitchell
BOOK 3y book
INJ 46 inj
SIZE ~295 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Foamcraft Mitchell (0.0 TCR gap)

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5.8
Foamcraft Mitc

5.8
Monticello

5.8
Pregis- Corsic

5.7
Youngwood

5.7

What this shows Independent Furniture Supply averages 5.8 TCR (175% of the Foam plastics products (except polystrene) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Independent Furniture Supply TCR series: 2016=6.5 · 2018=5 · 2019=5.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Independent Furniture Supply falls in its industry

474 Foam plastics products (except establishments

Safer than 20% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Mississippi alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #22 safest of 23 Foam plastics products (except employers in Mississippi.

Independent Furniture Supply (295 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Independent Furniture Supply has more employees than the Foam plastics products (except polystren median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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
2019	5.8	3.3	15	1
2018	5.0	2.8	13	3
2016	6.5	3.6	18	2

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326150 · MS · Tupelo

474 Foam plastics products (except polystrene) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,083 rated employers in Mississippi with headcount on file · 144 employers in Tupelo, MS · 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	Foamcraft Mitchell	MITCHELL, IN	5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Pregis- Corsicana	CORSICANA, TX	5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Monticello	MONTICELLO, IA	5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Youngwood	YOUNGWOOD, PA	5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE	1088	BILOXI	295 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Bauhaus Furniture Group, LLC	SALTILLO	296 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Merchants Foodservice - Jackson, MS	JACKSON	296 FTE
STATE-SIZE	1530	CLEVELAND	294 FTE
CITY-NEAR	North Mississippi Medical Center	Tupelo	5,727 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Tupelo Cooper Tire & Rubber Plant (SIC 3011)	Tupelo	1,416 FTE
CITY-NEAR	JESCO, Inc.	Tupelo	394 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Tupelo Operations	Tupelo	393 FTE
NAT-TCR	6962-Abs 0028 0757	Chula Vista, CA	5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	6400-Swy 0027 1297	Edmonds, WA	5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Basic American Ingredients	Blackfoot, ID	5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Keystone Powdered Metal Company	Saint Marys, PA	5.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Knouse Foods Coop, Inc - Orrtanna	Orrtanna, PA	295 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Presort Services- Charlotte	Charlotte, NC	295 FTE
NAT-SIZE	NatureSweet USA LLC	Willcox, AZ	295 FTE
NAT-SIZE	NGTS-E579	Sierra Vista, AZ	295 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, 2016. 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.