Food Services · Mississippi

500437600 - Univ of Southern Mississippi

Hattiesburg, MS · ~255 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.8
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

500437600 - Univ of Southern Mississippi runs at 92% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Food Services workplace, earning a grade C.

500437600 - Univ of Southern Mississippi: 2.8 TCR = 92% of Food Services BLS 3.0 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

500437600 - Univ of Southern Mississippi safety composite

500437600 - Univ of Southern Mississippi scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 61% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 33%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.9

2016→2017

500437600 - Univ of Southern Mississippi injury rate improved

500437600 - Univ of Southern Mississippi's TCR fell 0.9 from 3.2 in 2016 to 2.3 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 3.2 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0.84× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.2 · 2017=2.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722310 · Hattiesburg, MS AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.8 · 92% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK #28/61
  • PHOTO SODEXO AT BELLARMINE…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~255 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SODEXO AT BELLARMINE UNIVERSITY (0.0 TCR gap)

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500437600 - Univ of Southern Mississippi in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 500437600 - Univ of Southern Mississippi averages 2.8 TCR (92% of the Food Services BLS benchmark).

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

500437600 - Univ of Southern Mississippi TCR series: 2016=3.2 · 2017=2.3 · BLS 3.0

Where 500437600 - Univ of Southern Mississippi falls in its industry

6,952 Food Services establishments

Safer than 61% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Mississippi alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #28 safest of 61 Food Services employers in Mississippi.

500437600 - Univ of Southern Mississippi (255 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 500437600 - Univ of Southern Mississippi
500437600 - Univ of Southern Mississippi (255 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5

500437600 - Univ of Southern Mississippi has more employees than the Food Services median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2017 2.3 2.3 3 0 0
2016 3.2 0.0 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722310 · MS · Hattiesburg

6,952 Food Services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,083 rated employers in Mississippi with headcount on file · 186 employers in Hattiesburg, 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 SODEXO AT BELLARMINE UNIVERSITY 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR LSUunion ChickFilA 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR U of Ark-Chick Fil A 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 7691-PDLLC-IMMACULATA UNIVERSITY 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE HHG Belden Plant 255 FTE
STATE-SIZE Upchurch Services, LLC 254 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tiffin Motor Homes, Inc-Belmont 254 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 707 254 FTE
CITY-NEAR HATTIESBURG FOOD 8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hattiesburg 4,161 FTE
CITY-NEAR Processing Plant 1,173 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mar-Jac Poultry MS LLC - Processing Plant 1,163 FTE
NAT-TCR N and R of Tipton LLC 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 0765 - Roseburg, or 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR SG002 - Sage Ft. Collins 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Montvale 2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lincoln Site 255 FTE
NAT-SIZE Holland - CI 255 FTE
NAT-SIZE SYRCNYAN 255 FTE
NAT-SIZE SNANTXCADS3 255 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: 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.