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

Paxton Furniture Industries

Name: Paxton Furniture Industries Workplace Safety Data
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Okolona, MS · ~45 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 0.7
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Paxton Furniture Industries runs at 22% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Furniture, household-type, upholstered on frames of any material, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Paxton Furniture Industries: 0.7 TCR = 22% of Furniture, household-type, upholstered on frames of any material, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Paxton Furniture Industries safety composite

Paxton Furniture Industries scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 96% 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).

74/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): A 0.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 96% of industry peers
DART rate: C 1.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% 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

Paxton Furniture Industries: 0.0 → 1.5 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 1.5 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2023

Paxton Furniture Industries's TCR rose 1.5 from 0.0 in 2022 to 1.5 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 337121 · Okolona, MS AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.7 · 22% of ind

DART 1.5 DART
RANK #3/46
PHOTO Swaim Inc
BOOK 2y book
INJ 1 inj
SIZE ~45 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Swaim Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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0.7
Swaim Inc

0.7
Flexsteel Indu

0.6
Klaussner Corp

0.6
050 LCI

0.6

What this shows Paxton Furniture Industries averages 0.7 TCR (22% of the Furniture, household-type, upholstered on frames of any material, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Paxton Furniture Industries TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=1.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Paxton Furniture Industries falls in its industry

300 Furniture, household-type, uph establishments

Safer than 96% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Mississippi alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 46 Furniture, household-type, uph employers in Mississippi.

Paxton Furniture Industries (45 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Paxton Furniture Industries has fewer 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
2023	1.5	1.5	1	0	0
2022	0.0	0.0	0	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

337121 · MS · Okolona

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 · 8 employers in Okolona, MS · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Swaim Inc	HIGH POINT, NC	0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Flexsteel Industries-Dubuque Global Headquarters	DUBUQUE, IA	0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Klaussner Corp Offices	ASHEBORO, NC	0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	050 LCI	GOSHEN, IN	0.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE	H2O innovation Operation & Maintenance LLC - Pascagoula O&M	PASCAGOULA	45 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Weaver Electric, Inc.	GULFPORT	45 FTE
STATE-SIZE	MS - Corinth, MS - 1COMS (Caterpillar Corinth Facility)	CORINTH	45 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Brislin, Inc.	COLUMBUS	45 FTE
CITY-NEAR	WHSE 01	Okolona	413 FTE
CITY-NEAR	SEMINOLE FURNITURE LLC	Okolona	157 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Chickasaw Container Corporation	Okolona	91 FTE
CITY-NEAR	SHEARER RICHARDSON MEMORIAL NURSING HOME	Okolona	83 FTE
NAT-TCR	McMillan Security Systems Inc	San Francisco, CA	0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Engineered Materials : Elgin	Elgin, IL	0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Katoen Natie Specialty Chemicals Inc. Pensacola	Cantonment, FL	0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Hatzel & Buehler Inc. - East Norriton	East Norriton, PA	0.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Opal Foods Hampton	Hampton, IA	45 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Chariton Specialty Care	Chariton, IA	45 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Cherokee Specialty Care	Cherokee, IA	45 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Altorfer Inc. - Cedar Rapids, IA - 2550 6th Street SW	Cedar Rapids, IA	45 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: 2023, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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