Furniture and appliance stores (i.e., primarily retailing furniture) · North Carolina

Kimbrell's Furniture

Charlotte, NC · ~535 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kimbrell's Furniture runs at 71% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Furniture and appliance stores (i.e., primarily retailing furniture) workplace, earning a grade B.

Kimbrell's Furniture: 2.4 TCR = 71% of Furniture and appliance stores (i.e., primarily retailing furniture) BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kimbrell's Furniture safety composite

Kimbrell's Furniture scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 43%), 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

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% 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

−2.1

2017→2019

Kimbrell's Furniture injury rate improved

Kimbrell's Furniture's TCR fell 2.1 from 3.6 in 2017 to 1.4 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 3.6 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.58× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=3.6 · 2018=2.3 · 2019=1.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 442110 · Charlotte, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 71% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #11/61
  • PHOTO Big Sandy Superstore…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 35 inj
  • SIZE ~535 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Big Sandy Superstore (16) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kimbrell's Furniture in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kimbrell's Furniture averages 2.4 TCR (71% of the Furniture and appliance stores (i.e., primarily retailing furniture) BLS benchmark).

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

Kimbrell's Furniture TCR series: 2017=3.6 · 2018=2.3 · 2019=1.4 · BLS 3.4

Where Kimbrell's Furniture falls in its industry

2,215 Furniture and appliance stores establishments

Safer than 75% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 61 Furniture and appliance stores employers in North Carolina.

Kimbrell's Furniture (535 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 5.0 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 0200400600 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Kimbrell's Furniture
Kimbrell's Furniture (535 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 5.0

Kimbrell's Furniture has more employees than the Furniture and appliance stores (i.e., pr median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.0. 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 1.4 1.4 7 0 0
2018 2.3 1.3 11 0 0
2017 3.6 2.9 17 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

442110 · NC · Charlotte

2,215 Furniture and appliance stores (i.e., primarily retailing furniture) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 2,058 employers in Charlotte, NC · 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 Big Sandy Superstore (16) 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ashley Furniture Homestore- Rogers 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR VCF 176 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR A1-Latham Showroom 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Guilford County Department of Social Services - Greensboro 535 FTE
STATE-SIZE Edwards, Inc. 534 FTE
STATE-SIZE All Other Employees - Other Government Support 537 FTE
STATE-SIZE Alamance Foods Cedar Crest 532 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1101-Carolinas Medical Center (1101) 8,444 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0001-Carolinas Medical Center 8,032 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4795-AA-CLT-CHARLOTTE-CLT-TRML 7,295 FTE
CITY-NEAR Novant Health Presbyterian Medical Center 4,973 FTE
NAT-TCR JR Simplot Company-WSI Caldwell 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 6962-Swy 0025 0203 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 6962-Abs 0028 3177 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Ceres Canaveral 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE LaZBoy 535 FTE
NAT-SIZE 3495-50CC100 535 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sysco Lincoln, NE 535 FTE
NAT-SIZE Southwestern Medical Center 535 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, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.