Industry profile · NAICS 337121

Sofas, upholstered, manufacturing

Workplace injury rates across 305 OSHA-reporting establishments in this industry, 2016–2024.

305
Employers
5.4
Avg TCR
3.3
BLS benchmark
11,303
Injuries

The industry picture

Employers in Sofas, upholstered, manufacturing average 5.4 recordable injuries per 100 workers, 1.6 times the BLS national benchmark of 3.3.

5.4
avg TCR · reporting employers
3.3
BLS national benchmark
305
employers reporting
11,303
recordable injuries

OSHA-reporting establishments skew toward larger, higher-hazard sites, so the reporting average runs above the BLS all-establishment benchmark.

What Sofas, upholstered, manufacturing Safety Data Reveals

The Sofas, upholstered, manufacturing sector (NAICS 337121) encompasses 305 distinct employer establishments currently reporting to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Across this cohort, workers have logged 11,303 recordable injuries during the 2016–2024 reporting window, producing an industry-weighted average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 5.4 injuries per 100 full-time workers per year. Because OSHA's ITA mandates submission from establishments with 250+ employees plus all high-hazard industries at 20+ employees, this dataset represents a structural slice of U.S. workplace risk rather than a voluntary sample.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes a separate national benchmark TCR of 3.3 for this NAICS code, derived from the BLS Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses. Comparing the two, the ITA-reported rate of 5.4 is higher than the BLS benchmark, a gap that typically widens when the industry contains many large, high-exposure establishments required to file ITA reports. Employers in the table below are sorted so you can see how far individual establishments deviate from both the industry average and the national benchmark.

The practical value of industry-level safety data is threefold. First, jobseekers can gauge whether a prospective employer is better or worse than its industry peers, not just absolute injury counts, which tilt toward larger payrolls. Second, insurers and workers' compensation carriers use sector TCR as a baseline for experience-modification adjustments. Third, safety professionals benchmark their own programs against the cohort median. Use the grade-sorted employer list below to identify specific establishments within Sofas, upholstered, manufacturing that outperform or underperform the sector average, and click through to each record for year-by-year injury, illness, and fatality breakdowns.

Employers in this industry, by injury rate

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Employer LocationGradeAvg TCR
Best Home Furnishings/Paoli Paoli, IN B 2.3
Whse 37 Lexington, NC B 2.2
Edgecombe Furniture Greenville, NC B 2.2
149 Lci New Paris, IN B 2.2
Hekman Furniture Zeeland, MI B 2.2
Younger Furniture, Inc. Thomasville, NC B 2.2
Rose Tarlow Melrose House North Hollywood, CA B 2.2
VAFOAM Front Royal, VA B 2.2
Ashley Furniture Ecru MS Ecru, MS B 2.1
Dmitriy Manufacturing Commerce, CA B 2.1
Southern Furniture Company of Conover INc Conover, NC B 2.1
Snyder Paper - High Point Cushion High Point, NC B 2.0
Overman International Corporation Dandridge, TN B 1.9
La-Z-Boy Midwest Neosho, MO B 1.9
La-Z-Boy South, Newton MS Newton, MS B 1.9
Hickory Chair Hickory, NC B 1.8
La-Z-Boy-Midwest-Neosho 4301 Howard Bush Dr., MO A 1.6
HHG Belden Plant Belden, MS A 1.5
Hickory Chair - HHG Hickory, NC A 1.5
Norwalk Custom Order Furniture Norwalk, OH A 1.4
Lci - 050 Goshen, IN A 1.3
Ort Furniture Mfg. Co. Salem, OH A 1.3
RHM Hickory, NC A 1.3
Best Home Furnishings/Office Ferdinand, IN A 1.3
Blu Dot Design & Manufacturing Minneapolis, MN A 1.3
King Hickory Furniture - Greenville-SC Greenville, SC A 1.3
Flexsteel Industries Incorporated Starkville, MS A 1.2
La-Z-Boy-Midwest-Siloam Springs Siloam Springs, AR A 1.2
Holly Hunt Ruseau Dallas, TX A 1.1
Bernhardt Furniture Company Plant #9 Shelby, NC A 1.1
NCC Tarboro, NC A 1.1
Holly Hunt Mccook, IL A 1.1
Hickory Sales Office Hickory, NC A 1.1
Charter Furniture - Newberry Liberty, NC A 0.9
Lci - 091 Elkhart, IN A 0.9
HHG Lenoir Upholstery Plant Lenoir, NC A 0.9
Marge Carson, Inc Pomona, CA A 0.8
Paxton Furniture Industries Okolona, MS A 0.7
Swaim Inc High Point, NC A 0.7
Flexsteel Industries-Dubuque Global Headquarters Dubuque, IA A 0.6
Klaussner Corp Offices Asheboro, NC A 0.6
050 Lci Goshen, IN A 0.6
091 Lci Elkhart, IN A 0.6
Bauhaus Furniture Group, LLC Saltillo, MS A 0.5
Bernhardt Furniture Company Plant #4 Lenoir, NC A 0.5
Main Office Hickory, NC A 0.5
Chairs America Hickory Flat, MS A 0.5
Lippert Plant 050T Topeka, IN A 0.4
A C Furniture Parkdalelocations Eden, NC A 0.4
Avis Furniture Kansas City, MO A 0.4
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This sector averages 5.4 against a BLS benchmark of 3.3 - but individual employers span the full A-to-F range.

Sector figures use the credible-subset mean across reporting employers; a benchmark is not any single establishment's measured rate.

Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.