Sofas, upholstered, manufacturing · Mississippi

Kellex Seating Tupelo

Tupelo, MS · ~88 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

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

Kellex Seating Tupelo runs at 174% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Sofas, upholstered, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Kellex Seating Tupelo: 5.8 TCR = 174% of Sofas, upholstered, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kellex Seating Tupelo safety composite

Kellex Seating Tupelo scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 13%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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

−2.8

2016→2024

Kellex Seating Tupelo injury rate improved

Kellex Seating Tupelo's TCR fell 2.8 from 10.6 in 2016 to 7.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 10.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.13× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=10.6 · 2018=6.2 · 2019=3.8 · 2020=3.9 · 2022=4.7 · 2023=3.3 · 2024=7.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 5.8 · 174% of ind

  • DART 6.5 DART
  • RANK #29/46
  • PHOTO GAR PRODUCTS
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 30 inj
  • SIZE ~88 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: GAR PRODUCTS (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kellex Seating Tupelo in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kellex Seating Tupelo averages 5.8 TCR (174% of the Sofas, upholstered, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Kellex Seating Tupelo TCR series: 2016=10.6 · 2018=6.2 · 2019=3.8 · 2020=3.9 · 2022=4.7 · 2023=3.3 · 2024=7.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Kellex Seating Tupelo falls in its industry

300 Sofas, upholstered, manufactur establishments

Safer than 33% 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 #29 safest of 46 Sofas, upholstered, manufactur employers in Mississippi.

Kellex Seating Tupelo (88 employees, TCR 5.8) 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 Tupelo
Kellex Seating Tupelo (88 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Kellex Seating Tupelo has fewer employees than the Sofas, upholstered, manufacturing 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
2024 7.8 6.5 5 1 0
2023 3.3 1.1 3 0 0
2022 4.7 3.5 4 0 0
2020 3.9 2.6 3 0 0
2019 3.8 1.3 3 0 0
2018 6.2 1.2 5 0 0
2016 10.6 10.6 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

337121 · MS · Tupelo

300 Sofas, 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 GAR PRODUCTS 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kolcraft Enterprises Inc 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kellex Seating 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR WHSE 08 5.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Meridian HWY 39 88 FTE
STATE-SIZE J.M. Jones Lumber Company 88 FTE
STATE-SIZE Foamcraft, Inc. 88 FTE
STATE-SIZE MSsteel 88 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 Brandon Oaks Nursing and Rehabilitation Center 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Superior Stone Products, Inc. 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Rail Exchange, Inc. 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Boswell Lumber Co. 5.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE TotalRecycle, Inc. 88 FTE
NAT-SIZE CMC Rebar Dallas 88 FTE
NAT-SIZE Municipal Services Division 88 FTE
NAT-SIZE NMF 88 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.