Iron foundries · Mississippi

C.L. Dews Foundry and Steel Shop

Hattiesburg, MS · ~81 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

C.L. Dews Foundry and Steel Shop runs at 205% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Iron foundries workplace, earning a grade F.

C.L. Dews Foundry and Steel Shop: 6.8 TCR = 205% of Iron foundries BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

C.L. Dews Foundry and Steel Shop safety composite

C.L. Dews Foundry and Steel Shop scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 28%), 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% 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%).

Rising injury rate

C.L. Dews Foundry and Steel Shop: 6.4 → 9.8 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 10.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.87× in 2024

C.L. Dews Foundry and Steel Shop's TCR rose 3.4 from 6.4 in 2016 to 9.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 10.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.87× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331511 · Hattiesburg, MS ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.8 · 205% of ind

  • DART 5.9 DART
  • RANK P53
  • PHOTO FRANKLIN IRON LLC
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 35 inj
  • SIZE ~81 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: FRANKLIN IRON LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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C.L. Dews Foundry and Steel Shop in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows C.L. Dews Foundry and Steel Shop averages 6.8 TCR (205% of the Iron foundries BLS benchmark).

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

C.L. Dews Foundry and Steel Shop TCR series: 2016=6.4 · 2020=2.2 · 2021=5.2 · 2022=10.4 · 2023=6.7 · 2024=9.8 · BLS 3.3

Where C.L. Dews Foundry and Steel Shop falls in its industry

272 Iron foundries establishments

Safer than 53% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
C.L. Dews Foundry and Steel Shop (81 employees, TCR 6.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 112 employees and a TCR of 7.2 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate C.L. Dews Foundry and Steel Shop
C.L. Dews Foundry and Steel Shop (81 employees, TCR 6.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 112 employees and a TCR of 7.2

C.L. Dews Foundry and Steel Shop has fewer employees than the Iron foundries median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 7.2. 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 9.8 5.9 9 1 0
2023 6.7 4.5 6 0 0
2022 10.4 1.3 8 0 0
2021 5.2 5.2 4 0 0
2020 2.2 2.2 2 0 0
2016 6.4 6.4 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331511 · MS · Hattiesburg

272 Iron foundries employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,083 rated employers in Mississippi with headcount on file · 186 employers in Hattiesburg, 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 FRANKLIN IRON LLC 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Talladega Foundry & Machine Co., Inc. 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Elyria Foundry 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Neenah Enterprises Inc. (Neenah Foundry) 6.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE R.C. Construction Co., Inc. Home Office 81 FTE
STATE-SIZE L & A Contracting Company 81 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gulf States Canners, Inc. 81 FTE
STATE-SIZE AFCO Olive Branch 81 FTE
CITY-NEAR HATTIESBURG FOOD 8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hattiesburg 4,161 FTE
CITY-NEAR Processing Plant 1,173 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mar-Jac Poultry MS LLC - Processing Plant 1,163 FTE
NAT-TCR Cobblestone Crossing 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Arlington Distribution Center #2000 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR DeAngelis Iron Work Inc. 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Terre Haute 6.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Smithflooring 81 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rcs Ia 81 FTE
NAT-SIZE Saint John Vianney Center 81 FTE
NAT-SIZE Office/shop 81 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, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2016. 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.