Furniture, household-type, upholstered on frames of any material, manufacturing · Mississippi

LaZBoy

Newton, MS · ~535 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

LaZBoy runs at 95% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Furniture, household-type, upholstered on frames of any material, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

LaZBoy: 3.1 TCR = 95% of Furniture, household-type, upholstered on frames of any material, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

LaZBoy safety composite

LaZBoy scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

67/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% 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

−1.6

2017→2019

LaZBoy injury rate improved

LaZBoy's TCR fell 1.6 from 4.0 in 2017 to 2.4 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 4.0 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.32× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=4.0 · 2018=3.1 · 2019=2.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 337121 · Newton, MS AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.1 · 95% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #12/46
  • PHOTO Plant # 1
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 53 inj
  • SIZE ~535 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Plant # 1 (0.0 TCR gap)

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LaZBoy in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows LaZBoy averages 3.1 TCR (95% of the Furniture, household-type, upholstered on frames of any material, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

LaZBoy TCR series: 2017=4 · 2018=3.1 · 2019=2.4 · BLS 3.3

Where LaZBoy falls in its industry

300 Furniture, household-type, uph establishments

Safer than 74% 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 #12 safest of 46 Furniture, household-type, uph employers in Mississippi.

LaZBoy (535 employees, TCR 3.1) 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 LaZBoy
LaZBoy (535 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.5

LaZBoy has more employees than the Furniture, household-type, upholstered o median and a lower 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
2019 2.4 1.0 13 1 0
2018 3.1 1.2 18 0 0
2017 4.0 2.4 22 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

337121 · MS · Newton

300 Furniture, household-type, upholstered on frames of any material, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,083 rated employers in Mississippi with headcount on file · 14 employers in Newton, 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 # 1 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lakeshore 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vanguard Main VGM 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Baker Interiors Furniture Company 3.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Big M Transportation, Inc. 537 FTE
STATE-SIZE Howard Industries Inc (Delphi) 532 FTE
STATE-SIZE Silver Slipper Casino Venture LLC 539 FTE
STATE-SIZE Baxter Healthcare Cleveland MS 529 FTE
CITY-NEAR La-Z-Boy South 477 FTE
CITY-NEAR ESCO Group LLC, 354 FTE
CITY-NEAR Weir Esco Newton 313 FTE
CITY-NEAR La-Z-Boy South, Newton MS 281 FTE
NAT-TCR 233 - Metro North 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-Swy 0017 0261 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 1156 Salt Lake City Components 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Staten Island Service Center (Ny78) 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kimbrell's Furniture 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.

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

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