Chairs, upholstered household-type (except dining room, kitchen), manufacturing · Mississippi

Southern Motion Plant 1

Pontotoc, MS · ~496 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Southern Motion Plant 1 runs at 110% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Chairs, upholstered household-type (except dining room, kitchen), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Southern Motion Plant 1: 3.6 TCR = 110% of Chairs, upholstered household-type (except dining room, kitchen), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Southern Motion Plant 1 safety composite

Southern Motion Plant 1 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 64% 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

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% 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

Southern Motion Plant 1: 2.0 → 4.0 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 7.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.52× in 2024

Southern Motion Plant 1's TCR rose 2.0 from 2.0 in 2019 to 4.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 7.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.52× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 337121 · Pontotoc, MS ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.6 · 110% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #17/46
  • PHOTO Dubuque Operations
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 107 inj
  • SIZE ~496 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Dubuque Operations (0.0 TCR gap)

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Southern Motion Plant 1 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Southern Motion Plant 1 averages 3.6 TCR (110% of the Chairs, upholstered household-type (except dining room, kitchen), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Southern Motion Plant 1 TCR series: 2019=2 · 2020=7 · 2021=3.9 · 2022=2.8 · 2023=2.1 · 2024=4 · BLS 3.3

Where Southern Motion Plant 1 falls in its industry

300 Chairs, upholstered household- establishments

Safer than 64% 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 #17 safest of 46 Chairs, upholstered household- employers in Mississippi.

Southern Motion Plant 1 (496 employees, TCR 3.6) 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 Southern Motion Plant 1
Southern Motion Plant 1 (496 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Southern Motion Plant 1 has more employees than the Chairs, upholstered household-type (exce 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
2024 4.0 1.9 17 0 0
2023 2.1 0.8 11 0 0
2022 2.8 0.9 15 0 0
2021 3.9 1.1 22 0 0
2020 7.0 2.1 32 1 0
2019 2.0 1.1 10 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

337121 · MS · Pontotoc

300 Chairs, upholstered household-type (except dining room, kitchen), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,083 rated employers in Mississippi with headcount on file · 36 employers in Pontotoc, 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 Dubuque Operations 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Serta Simmons Bedding Phoenix Plant 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Egg Collective 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Century Classic Plant 12 3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Deepwell Energy Services LLC. 495 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Chemours Company FC, LLC - Delisle 499 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mueller Copper Tube Company 501 FTE
STATE-SIZE ACCO Brands - Booneville 501 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 164 332 FTE
CITY-NEAR 164 321 FTE
CITY-NEAR Behold Washington, LLC 282 FTE
CITY-NEAR Southern Motion Plant 2 281 FTE
NAT-TCR South Valley Farms 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR CrownPointe of Portland 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Glenn Valley Foods 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Morrison Textile Machinery Company 3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE 1545 Crossways Blvd 496 FTE
NAT-SIZE Waco Plant 496 FTE
NAT-SIZE Miller & Long Co Inc 496 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nestle Gerber Products Company 496 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.