Refrigerated Warehousing and Storage · Mississippi

Forest Distribution Center

Forest, MS · ~84 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
6.5
Avg TCR
5.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Forest Distribution Center runs at 112% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Refrigerated Warehousing and Storage workplace, earning a grade C.

Forest Distribution Center: 6.5 TCR = 112% of Refrigerated Warehousing and Storage BLS 5.8 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Forest Distribution Center safety composite

Forest Distribution Center scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 24%), 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

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Forest Distribution Center: 2.4 → 4.8 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 14.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.49× in 2024

Forest Distribution Center's TCR rose 2.4 from 2.4 in 2018 to 4.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 14.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.49× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 493120 · Forest, MS ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 6.5 · 112% of ind

  • DART 3.2 DART
  • RANK #4/5
  • PHOTO Dawn Food Products -…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~84 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Dawn Food Products - Miami Distribution (0.0 TCR gap)

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Forest Distribution Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Forest Distribution Center averages 6.5 TCR (112% of the Refrigerated Warehousing and Storage BLS benchmark).

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

Forest Distribution Center TCR series: 2018=2.4 · 2019=2.2 · 2020=8.3 · 2021=14.7 · 2022=12.9 · 2023=0 · 2024=4.8 · BLS 5.8

Where Forest Distribution Center falls in its industry

1,039 Refrigerated Warehousing and S establishments

Safer than 24% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Mississippi alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 5 Refrigerated Warehousing and S employers in Mississippi.

Forest Distribution Center (84 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 68 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Forest Distribution Center
Forest Distribution Center (84 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 68 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Forest Distribution Center has more employees than the Refrigerated Warehousing and Storage median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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 4.8 3.2 2 1 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 12.9 12.9 0 8 0
2021 14.7 14.7 0 12 0
2020 8.3 8.3 2 5 0
2019 2.2 1.1 2 0 0
2018 2.4 2.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

493120 · MS · Forest

1,039 Refrigerated Warehousing and Storage employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,083 rated employers in Mississippi with headcount on file · 22 employers in Forest, 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 Dawn Food Products - Miami Distribution 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Americold Logistics, LLC: Modesto 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Co 34 Maines Paper & Food Service, Inc. 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mom's Meals North Jackson Fulfillment 6.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE J & J Bagging 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fountain Construction Co., Inc. - Main 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE TALBOT BROTHERS CONTRACTING CO. INC. 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bernhard MCC, LLC - Fabrication 84 FTE
CITY-NEAR Forest MS Complex 1,260 FTE
CITY-NEAR Raytheon_Forest_MS 840 FTE
CITY-NEAR Forest Debone Plant 717 FTE
CITY-NEAR Unipres Southeast 319 FTE
NAT-TCR Milwaukee 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Labatt Houston 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR SOLLiD Cabinetry 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Bronson Battle Creek 6.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Plant 06 - FW 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corporate Manufacturing Facility 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE East Coast Electric, Inc. 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Bethel University 84 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, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.