Drydocks, floating (i.e., routine repair and maintenance of ships) · Mississippi

Big River Shipbuilders

Vicksburg, MS · ~50 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
5.2
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Big River Shipbuilders runs at 114% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Drydocks, floating (i.e., routine repair and maintenance of ships) workplace, earning a grade C.

Big River Shipbuilders: 5.2 TCR = 114% of Drydocks, floating (i.e., routine repair and maintenance of ships) BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Big River Shipbuilders safety composite

Big River Shipbuilders scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 62% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 29%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% 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

−6.5

2016→2018

Big River Shipbuilders injury rate improved

Big River Shipbuilders's TCR fell 6.5 from 8.4 in 2016 to 1.9 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 8.4 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.37× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=8.4 · 2018=1.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488390 · Vicksburg, MS ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 5.2 · 114% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK P29
  • PHOTO Ingram Barge Company…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~50 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ingram Barge Company Columbus (0.4 TCR gap)

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Big River Shipbuilders in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Big River Shipbuilders averages 5.2 TCR (114% of the Drydocks, floating (i.e., routine repair and maintenance of ships) BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

Big River Shipbuilders TCR series: 2016=8.4 · 2018=1.9 · BLS 4.5

Where Big River Shipbuilders falls in its industry

17 Drydocks, floating (i.e., rout establishments

Safer than 29% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Big River Shipbuilders (50 employees, TCR 5.2) among 9 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.8 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 10 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate National Maintenance & Repair KentuckyHornbeck Offshore Services, LLCTBL - MaintenanceWaterfront Services Co.McGinnis, Inc.ZPMC USA NJChem Coast, INCIngram Barge Company MetropolisIngram Barge Company ColumbusBig River Shipbuilders
Big River Shipbuilders (50 employees, TCR 5.2) among 9 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Big River Shipbuilders has fewer employees than the Drydocks, floating (i.e., routine repair median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.8. 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 1.9 1.9 1 0 0
2016 8.4 8.4 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488390 · MS · Vicksburg

17 Drydocks, floating (i.e., routine repair and maintenance of ships) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,083 rated employers in Mississippi with headcount on file · 68 employers in Vicksburg, 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 Ingram Barge Company Columbus 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ingram Barge Company Metropolis 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR MCM Marine-Home 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Waterfront Services Co. 6.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE H2A Complete II, Inc Highland Park Harvesting, LLC 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Glenmary Evergreen 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE MSNAT - NATCHEZ 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cooper Tire Byhalia. (SMRU13523) 50 FTE
CITY-NEAR Merit Health River Region 781 FTE
CITY-NEAR ACE-IT 623 FTE
CITY-NEAR Casino and Hotel 600 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ceres Plant 550 FTE
NAT-TCR Knight Heating and Air Conditioning, Inc 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Middleburg Heights (Ohmid) 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Scs - 1655 Worldwide (Kywrw) 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Drake-Williams Steel 5.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ryerson- Seattle 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ryerson- Milwaukee 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kirlin Mechanical Services 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Legends - Tampa Yankees 50 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, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.