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

Sherman's Place Inc - Normal

Normal, IL · ~19 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.9
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sherman's Place Inc - Normal runs at 114% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Furniture and appliance stores (i.e., primarily retailing furniture) workplace, earning a grade C.

Sherman's Place Inc - Normal: 3.9 TCR = 114% of Furniture and appliance stores (i.e., primarily retailing furniture) BLS 3.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sherman's Place Inc - Normal safety composite

Sherman's Place Inc - Normal scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 73% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% 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

−9.6

2016→2021

Sherman's Place Inc - Normal injury rate improved

Sherman's Place Inc - Normal's TCR fell 9.6 from 9.6 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2016 at 9.6 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=9.6 · 2017=0.0 · 2019=5.9 · 2021=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 442110 · Normal, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.9 · 114% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #40/102
  • PHOTO T1-Middletown Showroom
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: T1-Middletown Showroom (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sherman's Place Inc - Normal in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sherman's Place Inc - Normal averages 3.9 TCR (114% 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

Sherman's Place Inc - Normal TCR series: 2016=9.6 · 2017=0 · 2019=5.9 · 2021=0 · BLS 3.4

Where Sherman's Place Inc - Normal falls in its industry

2,215 Furniture and appliance stores establishments

Safer than 62% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #40 safest of 102 Furniture and appliance stores employers in Illinois.

Sherman's Place Inc - Normal (19 employees, TCR 3.9) 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Sherman's Place Inc - Normal
Sherman's Place Inc - Normal (19 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 5.0

Sherman's Place Inc - Normal has fewer 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
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 5.9 5.9 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 9.6 9.6 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

442110 · IL · Normal

2,215 Furniture and appliance stores (i.e., primarily retailing furniture) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 116 employers in Normal, IL · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR T1-Middletown Showroom 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cypress Store #2308 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ashley HomeStore 35 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kanes Furniture - Clearwater Store 3.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Gingerich Farms Partnerships 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tolono Research 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE PharmaCann Hillcrest 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE South Morgan Acres, LLC. 19 FTE
CITY-NEAR Normal Plant - 100 Rivian Motorway 7,793 FTE
CITY-NEAR McLean County CUSD #5 2,474 FTE
CITY-NEAR Advocate BroMenn Medical Center 1,313 FTE
CITY-NEAR Heartland Community College 716 FTE
NAT-TCR Charlotte Hauling 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Core Molding Technologies, Inc. 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR OBA 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Stoody Company 3.9 TCR

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: 2021, 2019, 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.