Steel foundries (except investment) · Mississippi

ESCO Group LLC,

Newton, MS · ~354 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

ESCO Group LLC, runs at 73% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Steel foundries (except investment) workplace, earning a grade B.

ESCO Group LLC,: 2.4 TCR = 73% of Steel foundries (except investment) BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

ESCO Group LLC, safety composite

ESCO Group LLC, scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 91% 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).

C

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 2.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% 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

ESCO Group LLC,: 2.1 → 2.8 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 3.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.93× in 2022

ESCO Group LLC,'s TCR rose 0.7 from 2.1 in 2017 to 2.8 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2020 at 3.2 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.93× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331513 · Newton, MS AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 73% of ind

  • DART 2.2 DART
  • RANK P91
  • PHOTO Viking Pump Alloys F…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 44 inj
  • SIZE ~354 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Viking Pump Alloys Foundry (0.2 TCR gap)

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ESCO Group LLC, in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows ESCO Group LLC, averages 2.4 TCR (73% of the Steel foundries (except investment) BLS benchmark).

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

ESCO Group LLC, TCR series: 2017=2.1 · 2019=1.4 · 2020=3.2 · 2021=2.5 · 2022=2.8 · BLS 3.3

Where ESCO Group LLC, falls in its industry

94 Steel foundries (except invest establishments

Safer than 91% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
ESCO Group LLC, (354 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 78 employees and a TCR of 7.3 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 0100200300400500 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate ESCO Group LLC,
ESCO Group LLC, (354 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 78 employees and a TCR of 7.3

ESCO Group LLC, has more employees than the Steel foundries (except investment) median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 7.3. 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
2022 2.8 2.2 10 0 0
2021 2.5 2.5 9 0 0
2020 3.2 3.2 12 0 0
2019 1.4 1.4 6 0 0
2017 2.1 2.1 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331513 · MS · Newton

94 Steel foundries (except investment) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,083 rated employers in Mississippi with headcount on file · 14 employers in Newton, 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 Viking Pump Alloys Foundry 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR QESC LLC 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Delta Centrifugal Corp. 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Amsted Rail Company 2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE WM 981 354 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2717 354 FTE
STATE-SIZE 258 354 FTE
STATE-SIZE 182 353 FTE
CITY-NEAR LaZBoy 535 FTE
CITY-NEAR La-Z-Boy South 477 FTE
CITY-NEAR Weir Esco Newton 313 FTE
CITY-NEAR La-Z-Boy South, Newton MS 281 FTE
NAT-TCR B.J Baldwin, Inc. 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR West St Paul ISD 197-Early Learning Center 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Clarksville Dept of Electricity 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 632 - Torrance 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE 2253-H4685 354 FTE
NAT-SIZE J Bar B Foods Waelder 354 FTE
NAT-SIZE Isle of Capri Casino Hotel Lake Charles 354 FTE
NAT-SIZE ZF Chassis Components-Lapeer 354 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2017. 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.