Household-type furniture, upholstered, manufacturing · Mississippi

Kellex Seating

Tupelo, MS · ~78 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kellex Seating runs at 405% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Household-type furniture, upholstered, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Kellex Seating: 13.3 TCR = 405% of Household-type furniture, upholstered, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kellex Seating safety composite

Kellex Seating scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 4%), 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).

F

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 13.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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

Kellex Seating: 10.6 → 16.1 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 16.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.52× in 2017

Kellex Seating's TCR rose 5.6 from 10.6 in 2016 to 16.1 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0.52× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 337121 · Tupelo, MS ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 13.3 · 405% of ind

  • DART 6.9 DART
  • RANK #45/46
  • PHOTO Plant 9
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~78 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Plant 9 (0.1 TCR gap)

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Kellex Seating in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kellex Seating averages 13.3 TCR (405% of the Household-type furniture, upholstered, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Kellex Seating TCR series: 2016=10.6 · 2017=16.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Kellex Seating falls in its industry

300 Household-type furniture, upho establishments

Safer than 4% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Mississippi alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #45 safest of 46 Household-type furniture, upho employers in Mississippi.

Kellex Seating (78 employees, TCR 13.3) 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 Kellex Seating
Kellex Seating (78 employees, TCR 13.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Kellex Seating has fewer employees than the Household-type furniture, upholstered, m 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
2017 16.1 6.9 14 0 0
2016 10.6 10.6 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

337121 · MS · Tupelo

300 Household-type furniture, upholstered, 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 Metric
NAICS-TCR Plant 9 13.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Best Home Furnishings/Sofa 13.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Woodhaven Furniture Industries - Fairburn 13.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Carlton Mfg., INC. 12.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sanderson Farms McComb Hatchery 78 FTE
STATE-SIZE JT Shannon Lumber Company, INC. 78 FTE
STATE-SIZE Scotch Plywood Company Waynesboro Division 78 FTE
STATE-SIZE F.F.M., Inc. 78 FTE
CITY-NEAR North Mississippi Medical Center 5,727 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tupelo Cooper Tire & Rubber Plant (SIC 3011) 1,416 FTE
CITY-NEAR JESCO, Inc. 394 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tupelo Operations 393 FTE
NAT-TCR St. George Center (Utgeo) 13.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Enhanced Services Inc 13.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Rancho San Miguel - Ceres 13.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Dallas TDT 13.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE N and R of Willard LLC 78 FTE
NAT-SIZE Giant 779 78 FTE
NAT-SIZE KIK Chicago 78 FTE
NAT-SIZE KP - Frazer CSC 78 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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