Motor freight carrier, general,long-distance, truckload(TL) · Mississippi

Canton Dns

Canton, MS · ~53 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Canton Dns runs at 166% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Motor freight carrier, general,long-distance, truckload(TL) workplace, earning a grade D.

Canton Dns: 7.5 TCR = 166% of Motor freight carrier, general,long-distance, truckload(TL) BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Canton Dns safety composite

Canton Dns scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 11%), 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

Canton Dns: 5.4 → 8.9 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 8.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.8× in 2018

Canton Dns's TCR rose 3.6 from 5.4 in 2016 to 8.9 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.8× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Canton, MS ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.5 · 166% of ind

  • DART 6.0 DART
  • RANK #39/44
  • PHOTO MLS-NC - MLS New Cas…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~53 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MLS-NC - MLS New Castle (0.0 TCR gap)

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Canton Dns in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Canton Dns averages 7.5 TCR (166% of the Motor freight carrier, general,long-distance, truckload(TL) BLS benchmark).

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

Canton Dns TCR series: 2016=5.4 · 2017=8.1 · 2018=8.9 · BLS 4.5

Where Canton Dns falls in its industry

3,252 Motor freight carrier, g establishments

Safer than 11% 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 #39 safest of 44 Motor freight carrier, g employers in Mississippi.

Canton Dns (53 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Canton Dns
Canton Dns (53 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Canton Dns has fewer employees than the Motor freight carrier, general,lon median and a higher 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
2018 8.9 6.0 3 0 0
2017 8.1 4.0 4 0 0
2016 5.4 4.0 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · MS · Canton

3,252 Motor freight carrier, general,long-distance, truckload(TL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,083 rated employers in Mississippi with headcount on file · 38 employers in Canton, 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 MLS-NC - MLS New Castle 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Laredo Terminal 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pottsville PA Drivers 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Columbus Ohio Terminal 7.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Empire Group, Inc. 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Meridian Service Center 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Glass, Inc. 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE B Clean, LLC 53 FTE
CITY-NEAR Canton Vehicle Assembly 4,703 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - JAN1 2,034 FTE
CITY-NEAR Peco Foods- Fulton Canton Ms 890 FTE
CITY-NEAR Canton Distribution Center 376 FTE
NAT-TCR Senior Care of Onion Creek 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Pioneer Market Mariposa 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 5th Avenue (AZ) 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR West Chester 094 Processing Center 7.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Masco Coatings Group St. Louis MFG 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Office 71 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fruetel Associates 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Fresh Market 044 53 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, 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.