Dredging machinery manufacturing · Mississippi

Best Equipment Tech Inc.

Poplarville, MS · ~40 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Best Equipment Tech Inc. runs at 353% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Dredging machinery manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Best Equipment Tech Inc.: 11.7 TCR = 353% of Dredging machinery manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Best Equipment Tech Inc. safety composite

Best Equipment Tech Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 7%), 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).

F

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Best Equipment Tech Inc.: 8.6 → 14.8 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 14.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.47× in 2018

Best Equipment Tech Inc.'s TCR rose 6.2 from 8.6 in 2017 to 14.8 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.47× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333120 · Poplarville, MS ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.7 · 353% of ind

  • DART 5.5 DART
  • RANK #4/4
  • PHOTO Rogers, MN
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Rogers, MN (0.1 TCR gap)

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Best Equipment Tech Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Best Equipment Tech Inc. averages 11.7 TCR (353% of the Dredging machinery manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Best Equipment Tech Inc. TCR series: 2017=8.6 · 2018=14.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Best Equipment Tech Inc. falls in its industry

400 Dredging machinery manufacturi establishments

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Mississippi alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 4 Dredging machinery manufacturi employers in Mississippi.

Best Equipment Tech Inc. (40 employees, TCR 11.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Best Equipment Tech Inc.
Best Equipment Tech Inc. (40 employees, TCR 11.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Best Equipment Tech Inc. has fewer employees than the Dredging machinery manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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
2018 14.8 5.5 6 2 0
2017 8.6 6.4 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333120 · MS · Poplarville

400 Dredging machinery manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,083 rated employers in Mississippi with headcount on file · 13 employers in Poplarville, 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 Rogers, MN 11.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Valk Manufacturing Company 11.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Oregon Tool - Prescott 11.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Saxerud Inc 11.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mendenhall Hatchery 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sanderson Farms Laurel Hatchery 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brookhaven Network 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Picayune 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR DSC Poplarville 61 FTE
CITY-NEAR Parish Tractor Company, LLC Poplarville 41 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pearl River Community College 34 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4186-08610 31 FTE
NAT-TCR EK Machine Powder Products 11.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Riviera Beach (Flriv) 11.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Homestead Center 11.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Aurora - WCD 11.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Springfield, MA 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE ASA Mushroom LLC 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Residence Inn By Marriott Orangeburg 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4818-48180056-101 45th St-Wc 40 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: 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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