Furniture stores (e.g., household, office, outdoor) · Illinois

Walter E Smithe Furniture, Inc- Arlington Heights

Arlington Heights, IL · ~24 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Walter E Smithe Furniture, Inc- Arlington Heights runs at 156% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Furniture stores (e.g., household, office, outdoor) workplace, earning a grade D.

Walter E Smithe Furniture, Inc- Arlington Heights: 5.3 TCR = 156% of Furniture stores (e.g., household, office, outdoor) BLS 3.4 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Walter E Smithe Furniture, Inc- Arlington Heights safety composite

Walter E Smithe Furniture, Inc- Arlington Heights scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 22%), 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).

D

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Walter E Smithe Furniture, Inc- Arlington Heights: 5.8 → 7.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 7.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.44× in 2024

Walter E Smithe Furniture, Inc- Arlington Heights's TCR rose 1.8 from 5.8 in 2018 to 7.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.44× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 442110 · Arlington Heights, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.3 · 156% of ind

  • DART 7.6 DART
  • RANK #54/102
  • PHOTO C0660 Norman
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: C0660 Norman (0.0 TCR gap)

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Walter E Smithe Furniture, Inc- Arlington Heights in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Walter E Smithe Furniture, Inc- Arlington Heights averages 5.3 TCR (156% of the Furniture stores (e.g., household, office, outdoor) BLS benchmark).

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

Walter E Smithe Furniture, Inc- Arlington Heights TCR series: 2018=5.8 · 2019=0 · 2020=5.3 · 2022=5.8 · 2023=7.3 · 2024=7.6 · BLS 3.4

Where Walter E Smithe Furniture, Inc- Arlington Heights falls in its industry

2,215 Furniture stores (e.g., househ establishments

Safer than 47% 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 #54 safest of 102 Furniture stores (e.g., househ employers in Illinois.

Walter E Smithe Furniture, Inc- Arlington Heights (24 employees, TCR 5.3) 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 Walter E Smithe Furniture, Inc- Arlington Heights
Walter E Smithe Furniture, Inc- Arlington Heights (24 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 5.0

Walter E Smithe Furniture, Inc- Arlington Heights has fewer employees than the Furniture stores (e.g., household, offic median and a higher 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
2024 7.6 7.6 1 0 0
2023 7.3 0.0 1 0 0
2022 5.8 0.0 1 0 0
2020 5.3 0.0 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 5.8 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

442110 · IL · Arlington Heights

2,215 Furniture stores (e.g., household, office, outdoor) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 121 employers in Arlington Heights, IL · 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 C0660 Norman 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4535-0210 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4535-0781 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR PALO ALTO GALLERY 5.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE C70 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nelson Energy Center 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hecate Grid LLC 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE NG DeKalb Reporting Center 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northwest Community Hospital 3,365 FTE
CITY-NEAR ARLINGTON HEIGHTS SCHOOL DISTRICT 25 911 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4813-48130002-ENCORE CHICAGO 845 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lutheran Home and Serv For The Aged 796 FTE
NAT-TCR Sabel Steel Theodore 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Ferry County Public Hospital District #1 (DBA Ferry County Memorial Hospital) 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 40364 - CAPSTONE Aldi Moreno CA Unload 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Branagh Development, Inc. 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE San Dieguito Water District 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hammond Lumber Company - Farmington 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Noland co 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stuart Lisowski Excavation & Garage, LLC 24 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, 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.