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
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).
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
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Great Southern Industries
3.4 TCR
- DeLine Box Com
DeLine Box Company
3.4 TCR
- Akers Packagin
Akers Packaging Middletown
3.4 TCR
- Pratt (Love Bo
Pratt (Love Box) LLC
3.4 TCR
- Niagara Sheets
Niagara Sheets LLC
3.4 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).
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 establishmentsSafer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.
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 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 →
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.