Excavating, earthmoving, or land clearing contractors · Mississippi

Birdsong Construction Company, Inc.

Clinton, MS · ~105 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.4
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Birdsong Construction Company, Inc. runs at 15% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Excavating, earthmoving, or land clearing contractors workplace, earning a grade A.

Birdsong Construction Company, Inc.: 0.4 TCR = 15% of Excavating, earthmoving, or land clearing contractors BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Birdsong Construction Company, Inc. safety composite

Birdsong Construction Company, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 96% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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).

B

78/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 96% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

−0.8

2016→2017

Birdsong Construction Company, Inc. injury rate improved

Birdsong Construction Company, Inc.'s TCR fell 0.8 from 0.8 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 0.8 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.8 · 2017=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238910 · Clinton, MS AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.4 · 15% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/11
  • PHOTO Joe Bennett Backhoe,…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~105 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Joe Bennett Backhoe, Plumbing & Rentals, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Birdsong Construction Company, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Birdsong Construction Company, Inc. averages 0.4 TCR (15% of the Excavating, earthmoving, or land clearing contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Birdsong Construction Company, Inc. TCR series: 2016=0.8 · 2017=0 · BLS 2.8

Where Birdsong Construction Company, Inc. falls in its industry

1,750 Excavating, earthmoving, or la establishments

Safer than 96% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Mississippi alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 11 Excavating, earthmoving, or la employers in Mississippi.

Birdsong Construction Company, Inc. (105 employees, TCR 0.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 050100150200250 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Birdsong Construction Company, Inc.
Birdsong Construction Company, Inc. (105 employees, TCR 0.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Birdsong Construction Company, Inc. has more employees than the Excavating, earthmoving, or land clearin median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.8 0.8 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238910 · MS · Clinton

1,750 Excavating, earthmoving, or land clearing contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,083 rated employers in Mississippi with headcount on file · 28 employers in Clinton, 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 Joe Bennett Backhoe, Plumbing & Rentals, Inc. 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Shawn's Lawns Inc. 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR ISLAND LANDHANDLERS, LLC 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Burford Construction Florida Statewide Operations 0.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Resinall Mississippi, Inc. 105 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Essmueller Company 105 FTE
STATE-SIZE Byhalia - 490/491 Wingo Road 105 FTE
STATE-SIZE MS - Ridgeland, 121 Marketridge Drive 105 FTE
CITY-NEAR Continental Tire the Americas, LLC 548 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1710 352 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1710 329 FTE
CITY-NEAR Prewitt Contract Services, Inc. 262 FTE
NAT-TCR Florida Corporate Office 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR TRW Vehicle Safety Systems-Wash02 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 9706 - Dfw - Csoc 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Texoma 0.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Stop & Shop 100537 105 FTE
NAT-SIZE Doyles Wholesale 105 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kirlin Builders 105 FTE
NAT-SIZE West Bay Center 105 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.