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

Walter E Smithe Furniture, Inc - Oak Brook

Oak Brook, IL · ~28 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Walter E Smithe Furniture, Inc - Oak Brook runs at 102% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Furniture stores (e.g., household, office, outdoor) workplace, earning a grade C.

Walter E Smithe Furniture, Inc - Oak Brook: 3.5 TCR = 102% of Furniture stores (e.g., household, office, outdoor) BLS 3.4 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Walter E Smithe Furniture, Inc - Oak Brook safety composite

Walter E Smithe Furniture, Inc - Oak Brook 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

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Walter E Smithe Furniture, Inc - Oak Brook: 4.3 → 11.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 11.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Walter E Smithe Furniture, Inc - Oak Brook's TCR rose 7.6 from 4.3 in 2018 to 11.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 442110 · Oak Brook, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.5 · 102% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #35/102
  • PHOTO Office Interiors, Inc.
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Office Interiors, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Walter E Smithe Furniture, Inc - Oak Brook 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 - Oak Brook averages 3.5 TCR (102% 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 - Oak Brook TCR series: 2018=4.3 · 2019=4.4 · 2020=3.8 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=11.9 · BLS 3.4

Where Walter E Smithe Furniture, Inc - Oak Brook falls in its industry

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

Safer than 65% 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 #35 safest of 102 Furniture stores (e.g., househ employers in Illinois.

Walter E Smithe Furniture, Inc - Oak Brook (28 employees, TCR 3.5) 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 - Oak Brook
Walter E Smithe Furniture, Inc - Oak Brook (28 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 5.0

Walter E Smithe Furniture, Inc - Oak Brook has fewer employees than the Furniture stores (e.g., household, offic 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
2024 11.9 0.0 2 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 3.8 0.0 1 0 0
2019 4.4 0.0 1 0 0
2018 4.3 4.3 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

442110 · IL · Oak Brook

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 · 71 employers in Oak Brook, 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 Office Interiors, Inc. 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR El Dorado Furniture 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Summerlin - 14 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Memphis Store #1107 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Elite Growers, Inc. 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Charles River Avian Roanoke 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corteva Agriscience Princeton IL Research-PRI2 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tracy Export, Inc. 28 FTE
CITY-NEAR Advocate Health Care - Shared Revenue Cycle Organization 1,437 FTE
CITY-NEAR Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company LLC 1,070 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ace Hardware Corporate Offices 1,017 FTE
CITY-NEAR 10845 955 FTE
NAT-TCR Spiritwood Station 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Physicians East- Urgent Care Center 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Grand Manor Nursing & Rehabilitation Center 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Gle Scrap Metal - Casselberry 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE CoreStar International Corporation 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jefferson City WTP 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tampa FL Windows 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kairos NW- Jackson Services 28 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.