Institutional furniture manufacturing · Michigan

Irwin Seating Company

Grand Rapids, MI · ~442 workers · 9 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

Irwin Seating Company runs at 115% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Institutional furniture manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Irwin Seating Company: 3.8 TCR = 115% of Institutional furniture manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Irwin Seating Company safety composite

Irwin Seating Company scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 64% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

−11.2

2016→2024

Irwin Seating Company injury rate improved

Irwin Seating Company's TCR fell 11.2 from 13.6 in 2016 to 2.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 13.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.41× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=13.6 · 2017=2.6 · 2018=2.4 · 2019=3.4 · 2020=1.3 · 2021=2.5 · 2022=4.0 · 2023=2.0 · 2024=2.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 337127 · Grand Rapids, MI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.8 · 115% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #9/21
  • PHOTO Sauder Manufacturing…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 79 inj
  • SIZE ~442 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sauder Manufacturing Company Archbold Ohio Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Irwin Seating Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Irwin Seating Company averages 3.8 TCR (115% of the Institutional furniture manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Irwin Seating Company TCR series: 2016=13.6 · 2017=2.6 · 2018=2.4 · 2019=3.4 · 2020=1.3 · 2021=2.5 · 2022=4 · 2023=2 · 2024=2.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Irwin Seating Company falls in its industry

208 Institutional furniture manufa establishments

Safer than 64% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 21 Institutional furniture manufa employers in Michigan.

Irwin Seating Company (442 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 77 employees and a TCR of 4.6 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 0100200300400500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Irwin Seating Company
Irwin Seating Company (442 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 77 employees and a TCR of 4.6

Irwin Seating Company has more employees than the Institutional furniture manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.6. 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
2024 2.5 1.6 8 0 0
2023 2.0 1.1 5 2 0
2022 4.0 1.5 8 5 0
2021 2.5 1.2 4 4 0
2020 1.3 0.3 3 1 0
2019 3.4 2.3 12 3 0
2018 2.4 1.3 12 1 0
2017 2.6 1.7 17 0 0
2016 13.6 10.9 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

337127 · MI · Grand Rapids

208 Institutional furniture manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 1,006 employers in Grand Rapids, MI · 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 Sauder Manufacturing Company Archbold Ohio Plant 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR N. Wasserstrom & Sons OH 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Southern Bleacher Holding Company Inc 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Smith System Manufacturing Co Carrollton 3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Huron Inc 442 FTE
STATE-SIZE U.S. Border Patrol Sector - Detroit 442 FTE
STATE-SIZE Chippewa Correctional Facilities 442 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kamax Inc. 443 FTE
CITY-NEAR SHHG-GR BUTTERWORTH CA 9,012 FTE
CITY-NEAR SH Butterworth Hospital 7,397 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Health Saint Mary's Hospital-MH-MI 2,914 FTE
CITY-NEAR Steelcase - Grand Rapids / Kentwood 2,817 FTE
NAT-TCR Tech Etch Fall River 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Peerless Products Inc 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Mary Goss Nursing Home 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Homewood Suites Dover Rockaway 3.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE K.T.G. (USA) Inc. 442 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corporate 442 FTE
NAT-SIZE Milwaukee Center for Independence 442 FTE
NAT-SIZE Simonton Windows 442 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.