Armor plate made in iron and steel mills · Mississippi

FerrouSouth

Iuka, MS · ~64 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

FerrouSouth runs at 93% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Armor plate made in iron and steel mills workplace, earning a grade C.

FerrouSouth: 3.1 TCR = 93% of Armor plate made in iron and steel mills BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

FerrouSouth safety composite

FerrouSouth scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 17%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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%).

FerrouSouth held a steady TCR band

FerrouSouth's TCR held near 0.3 from 2.9 in 2022 to 3.2 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.05× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=2.9 · 2023=3.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331110 · Iuka, MS AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.1 · 93% of ind

  • DART 3.2 DART
  • RANK #5/6
  • PHOTO First Impression Iro…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~64 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: First Impression Ironworks (0.0 TCR gap)

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FerrouSouth in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows FerrouSouth averages 3.1 TCR (93% of the Armor plate made in iron and steel mills BLS benchmark).

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

FerrouSouth TCR series: 2022=2.9 · 2023=3.2 · BLS 3.3

Where FerrouSouth falls in its industry

416 Armor plate made in iron and s establishments

Safer than 44% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Mississippi alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 6 Armor plate made in iron and s employers in Mississippi.

FerrouSouth (64 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 155 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate FerrouSouth
FerrouSouth (64 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 155 employees and a TCR of 2.7

FerrouSouth has fewer employees than the Armor plate made in iron and steel mills median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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
2023 3.2 3.2 2 0 0
2022 2.9 2.9 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331110 · MS · Iuka

416 Armor plate made in iron and steel mills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,083 rated employers in Mississippi with headcount on file · 32 employers in Iuka, 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 First Impression Ironworks 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fort Madison Plant 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR MOBIS 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Universal Stainless - Bridgeville 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE GRT Ripley Operations, LLC 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE Slay Steel, Inc. 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE CORNER MARKET #6013 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1808-00000803-1357 64 FTE
CITY-NEAR NGAS-MS01 440 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation 427 FTE
CITY-NEAR Roll Form 184 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tishomingo Health Services 177 FTE
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #5448 Lancaster, OH 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #5377 Tampa, FL 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Ecoservices LLC 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Attwood Lowell 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE D-B Cartage,Inc. 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sub-Zero Phoenix 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE Woodlands Service Center 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE Land N' Sea - Clinton, MI 64 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: 2023, 2022. 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.