Household-type furniture, upholstered, manufacturing · Virginia

Vanguard BR

Hillsville, VA · ~109 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Vanguard BR runs at 115% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Household-type furniture, upholstered, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Vanguard BR: 3.8 TCR = 115% of Household-type furniture, upholstered, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Vanguard BR safety composite

Vanguard BR scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 90% 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

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% 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

−1.1

2016→2024

Vanguard BR injury rate improved

Vanguard BR's TCR fell 1.1 from 3.1 in 2016 to 2.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 7.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.1 · 2017=6.0 · 2018=2.2 · 2019=3.3 · 2020=4.9 · 2021=7.3 · 2022=3.4 · 2023=2.0 · 2024=2.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 337121 · Hillsville, VA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.8 · 115% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/10
  • PHOTO Best Home Furnishing…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 33 inj
  • SIZE ~109 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Best Home Furnishings/County Line (0.0 TCR gap)

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Vanguard BR in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Vanguard BR averages 3.8 TCR (115% of the Household-type furniture, upholstered, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Vanguard BR TCR series: 2016=3.1 · 2017=6 · 2018=2.2 · 2019=3.3 · 2020=4.9 · 2021=7.3 · 2022=3.4 · 2023=2 · 2024=2 · BLS 3.3

Where Vanguard BR falls in its industry

300 Household-type furniture, upho establishments

Safer than 61% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 10 Household-type furniture, upho employers in Virginia.

Vanguard BR (109 employees, TCR 3.8) 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 Vanguard BR
Vanguard BR (109 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Vanguard BR has fewer employees than the Household-type furniture, upholstered, m 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 2.0 0.0 2 0 0
2023 2.0 0.0 2 0 0
2022 3.4 1.7 4 0 0
2021 7.3 3.1 7 0 0
2020 4.9 2.4 4 0 0
2019 3.3 3.3 3 0 0
2018 2.2 0.0 2 0 0
2017 6.0 2.0 6 0 0
2016 3.1 3.1 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

337121 · VA · Hillsville

300 Household-type furniture, upholstered, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 20 employers in Hillsville, VA · 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 Best Home Furnishings/County Line 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hallagan Mfg. Co., Inc. 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Church Chairs of America 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Plant # 2 3.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Arrington Operation 109 FTE
STATE-SIZE Roanoke Gas Company 109 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hiller Chesapeake 109 FTE
STATE-SIZE B&S Site Development, Inc. 109 FTE
CITY-NEAR Plant 32 - 35 425 FTE
CITY-NEAR Parkdale Mills, Inc Plant 32-35 320 FTE
CITY-NEAR Galax/Twin County Center 192 FTE
CITY-NEAR USA Hillsville VA 157 FTE
NAT-TCR Resilux America LLC 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR MON 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Sawyer Manufacturing Company 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Jowat Corporation 3.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Keystone Quality Transport Company - NE Base 109 FTE
NAT-SIZE Recology Western Oregon 109 FTE
NAT-SIZE Oregon Tool - KC Blades 109 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Porter Co. 109 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, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.