Balloons, rubber, manufacturing · Mississippi

GRT Ripley Operations, LLC

Ripley, MS · ~64 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

GRT Ripley Operations, LLC runs at 298% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Balloons, rubber, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

GRT Ripley Operations, LLC: 9.8 TCR = 298% of Balloons, rubber, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

GRT Ripley Operations, LLC safety composite

GRT Ripley Operations, LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 9%), 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).

F

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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%).

Rising injury rate

GRT Ripley Operations, LLC: 10.0 → 11.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 11.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.75× in 2024

GRT Ripley Operations, LLC's TCR rose 1.0 from 10.0 in 2022 to 11.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.75× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326299 · Ripley, MS ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.8 · 298% of ind

  • DART 7.4 DART
  • RANK #5/5
  • PHOTO Purple West
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~64 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Purple West (0.1 TCR gap)

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GRT Ripley Operations, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows GRT Ripley Operations, LLC averages 9.8 TCR (298% of the Balloons, rubber, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

GRT Ripley Operations, LLC TCR series: 2022=10 · 2023=8.5 · 2024=11 · BLS 3.3

Where GRT Ripley Operations, LLC falls in its industry

257 Balloons, rubber, manufacturin establishments

Safer than 9% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

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 5 Balloons, rubber, manufacturin employers in Mississippi.

GRT Ripley Operations, LLC (64 employees, TCR 9.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 3.6 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate GRT Ripley Operations, LLC
GRT Ripley Operations, LLC (64 employees, TCR 9.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 3.6

GRT Ripley Operations, LLC has fewer employees than the Balloons, rubber, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.6. 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 11.0 7.4 3 0 0
2023 8.5 6.8 4 1 0
2022 10.0 6.7 2 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326299 · MS · Ripley

257 Balloons, rubber, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,083 rated employers in Mississippi with headcount on file · 27 employers in Ripley, 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 Purple West 9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Preferred Compounding - Huntingdon 9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR SealCorp USA 9.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Polyfill 9.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE FerrouSouth 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 Ripley Facility 1,043 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ashley Furniture Ind. LLC Ripley Facility 865 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ripley 825 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tippah County Hospital 244 FTE
NAT-TCR Store 1440 9.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Wolff Bros. Supply, Inc. Wooster 9.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Mg Foods Kansas 9.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Cubs Mgmt 9.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lubrizol Advanced Materials Inc Bowling Green 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE El Paso 10197 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE Glenn Metalcraft, Inc 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mid-State Roofing and Coating Inc. 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: 2024, 2023, 2022. 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.