Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard · Mississippi

Great Southern Industries

Jackson, MS · ~112 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Great Southern Industries runs at 104% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard workplace, earning a grade C.

Great Southern Industries: 3.4 TCR = 104% of Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Great Southern Industries safety composite

Great Southern Industries scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 31%), 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)
F 3.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.6

2016→2024

Great Southern Industries injury rate improved

Great Southern Industries's TCR fell 3.6 from 5.3 in 2016 to 1.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 6.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.3 · 2017=2.9 · 2018=6.2 · 2021=4.0 · 2022=2.2 · 2023=1.6 · 2024=1.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322211 · Jackson, MS ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.4 · 104% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #17/21
  • PHOTO DeLine Box Company
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 25 inj
  • SIZE ~112 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: DeLine Box Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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Great Southern Industries in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Great Southern Industries averages 3.4 TCR (104% of the Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard BLS benchmark).

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

Great Southern Industries TCR series: 2016=5.3 · 2017=2.9 · 2018=6.2 · 2021=4 · 2022=2.2 · 2023=1.6 · 2024=1.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Great Southern Industries falls in its industry

1,338 Boxes, corrugated and solid fi establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Mississippi alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 21 Boxes, corrugated and solid fi employers in Mississippi.

Great Southern Industries (112 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 2.4 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 0100200300 0123456 Average employees Total Case Rate Great Southern Industries
Great Southern Industries (112 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Great Southern Industries has more employees than the Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.4. 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 1.7 1.7 2 0 0
2023 1.6 0.0 2 0 0
2022 2.2 0.0 3 0 0
2021 4.0 1.6 5 0 0
2018 6.2 5.2 5 1 0
2017 2.9 1.9 3 0 0
2016 5.3 4.3 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322211 · MS · Jackson

1,338 Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,083 rated employers in Mississippi with headcount on file · 260 employers in Jackson, 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 DeLine Box Company 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Akers Packaging Middletown 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pratt (Love Box) LLC 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Niagara Sheets LLC 3.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Entergy - Jackson Office (Jefferson St) 112 FTE
STATE-SIZE Shackelford Construction & Hauling, LLC 112 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hattiesburg Facility 112 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gibson Corrugated 112 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Dominic Jackson Memorial Hospital 2,937 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mississippi Baptist Medical Center 2,704 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baptist Memorial Hospital - Mississippi Baptist Medical Center 2,566 FTE
CITY-NEAR MSJAC - JACKSON 1,458 FTE
NAT-TCR Surepods 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - CLT9 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Carver Elementary School 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Orotex Corporation 3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hollingsworth Distribution Systems 112 FTE
NAT-SIZE 20511 - Norwin 112 FTE
NAT-SIZE StarCorr Sheets, LLC 112 FTE
NAT-SIZE Colonna Brothers, Inc. 1 112 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, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.