Institutional furniture manufacturing · Iowa

RJ Thomas Mfg. Co., Inc.

Cherokee, IA · ~72 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

RJ Thomas Mfg. Co., Inc. runs at 246% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Institutional furniture manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

RJ Thomas Mfg. Co., Inc.: 8.1 TCR = 246% of Institutional furniture manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

RJ Thomas Mfg. Co., Inc. safety composite

RJ Thomas Mfg. Co., Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 20%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% 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%).

RJ Thomas Mfg. Co., Inc. held a steady TCR band

RJ Thomas Mfg. Co., Inc.'s TCR held near 0.2 from 7.8 in 2016 to 8.0 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 8.9 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.8 · 2017=7.8 · 2018=8.9 · 2019=8.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 337127 · Cherokee, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.1 · 246% of ind

  • DART 2.7 DART
  • RANK P20
  • PHOTO West Park Children's…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~72 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: West Park Children's Factory (0.1 TCR gap)

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RJ Thomas Mfg. Co., Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows RJ Thomas Mfg. Co., Inc. averages 8.1 TCR (246% of the Institutional furniture manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

RJ Thomas Mfg. Co., Inc. TCR series: 2016=7.8 · 2017=7.8 · 2018=8.9 · 2019=8 · BLS 3.3

Where RJ Thomas Mfg. Co., Inc. falls in its industry

208 Institutional furniture manufa establishments

Safer than 20% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
RJ Thomas Mfg. Co., Inc. (72 employees, TCR 8.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 77 employees and a TCR of 4.6 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 0100200300400500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate RJ Thomas Mfg. Co., Inc.
RJ Thomas Mfg. Co., Inc. (72 employees, TCR 8.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 77 employees and a TCR of 4.6

RJ Thomas Mfg. Co., Inc. has fewer employees than the Institutional furniture manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.6. 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 8.0 2.7 6 0 0
2018 8.9 5.1 6 1 0
2017 7.8 7.8 6 0 0
2016 7.8 5.2 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

337127 · IA · Cherokee

208 Institutional furniture manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 24 employers in Cherokee, IA · 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 West Park Children's Factory 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR AmTab Manufacturing Corporation 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Graber Manufacturing, Inc. 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR ARGC, LLC dba Barricks Manufacturing Company 8.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Des Moines Two Rivers Gas 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE Denco Highway Construction Corporation 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE Forrest & Associate, Inc. 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE CKF Des Moines 72 FTE
CITY-NEAR Grocery-Cherokee 307 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cherokee Regional Medical Center 299 FTE
CITY-NEAR DHS-Cherokee Mental Health Institute 166 FTE
CITY-NEAR Truck-Cherokee 110 FTE
NAT-TCR Foundry 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR The Knickerbocker 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Royal Oak Enterprises 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Reno - Resort 8.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE 26-Colgate 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE Emmi Roth USA- Monroe Plant 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE Flow Polymers Coit Road Plant 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE Innocor Foam Technologies Brenham, LLC - Brenham 72 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, 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.