Culverts, highway, road and street, construction · Mississippi

Burns Dirt Construction

Columbus, MS · ~60 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.1
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
1
Fatality
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

Burns Dirt Construction runs at 41% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Culverts, highway, road and street, construction workplace, earning a grade A.

Burns Dirt Construction: 1.1 TCR = 41% of Culverts, highway, road and street, construction BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Burns Dirt Construction safety composite

Burns Dirt Construction scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 3%), 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).

C

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 3% 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→2024

Burns Dirt Construction injury rate improved

Burns Dirt Construction's TCR fell 0.9 from 2.2 in 2016 to 1.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 2.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.2 · 2017=0.0 · 2024=1.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Columbus, MS AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.1 · 41% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #10/50
  • PHOTO Gould Construction, …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~60 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Gould Construction, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · Mississippi employers → · Look up another →

Burns Dirt Construction in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Burns Dirt Construction averages 1.1 TCR (41% of the Culverts, highway, road and street, construction BLS benchmark).

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

Burns Dirt Construction TCR series: 2016=2.2 · 2017=0 · 2024=1.3 · BLS 2.8

Where Burns Dirt Construction falls in its industry

4,078 Culverts, highway, road and st establishments

Safer than 81% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Mississippi alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 50 Culverts, highway, road and st employers in Mississippi.

Burns Dirt Construction (60 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 01,0002,0003,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Burns Dirt Construction
Burns Dirt Construction (60 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Burns Dirt Construction has fewer employees than the Culverts, highway, road and street, cons median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2024 1.3 0.0 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 2.2 0.0 1 0 1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · MS · Columbus

4,078 Culverts, highway, road and street, construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,083 rated employers in Mississippi with headcount on file · 104 employers in Columbus, 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 Gould Construction, Inc. 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR OHL USA INC- CA ALL locations 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR California Department of Transportation Facility 320 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hinkle Environmental Services, LLC. 1.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Forest Growout (MLO) 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pine Belt Service Center, VMC, & Substation MPC2201 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE Byram Building EN7Z 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lehman Roberts Co I-269 60 FTE
CITY-NEAR Steel Dynamics, Inc. - Flat Roll Group - Columbus 905 FTE
CITY-NEAR Steel Dynamics, Inc. - FR Columbus 753 FTE
CITY-NEAR Paccar Engine Company 627 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bracken Construction Company, Inc. 376 FTE
NAT-TCR D27 Columbus 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Uncas International 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Roberts Gordon 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Aliso Viejo 1.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Diversified Manufacturing Acquisition, Inc. 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE CPC Materials dba Smokey Point Concrete 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE BWI 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE Legacy Equipment 60 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: 2024, 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.