Seafood and seafood products manufacturing · Mississippi

Heartland Catfish Company

Itta Bena, MS · ~334 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
2
Fatalities
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The verdict

Heartland Catfish Company runs at 121% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Seafood and seafood products manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Heartland Catfish Company: 4.0 TCR = 121% of Seafood and seafood products manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Heartland Catfish Company safety composite

Heartland Catfish Company scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 69% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 0%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 2

Safer than 0% 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

−0.4

2020→2024

Heartland Catfish Company injury rate improved

Heartland Catfish Company's TCR fell 0.4 from 4.0 in 2020 to 3.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 4.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.42× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=4.0 · 2023=4.2 · 2024=3.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311710 · Itta Bena, MS ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.0 · 121% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #4/7
  • PHOTO M/V Aleutian Falcon
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 36 inj
  • SIZE ~334 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: M/V Aleutian Falcon (0.0 TCR gap)

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Heartland Catfish Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Heartland Catfish Company averages 4.0 TCR (121% of the Seafood and seafood products manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Heartland Catfish Company TCR series: 2020=4 · 2023=4.2 · 2024=3.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Heartland Catfish Company falls in its industry

231 Seafood and seafood products m establishments

Safer than 64% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

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 7 Seafood and seafood products m employers in Mississippi.

Heartland Catfish Company (334 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 114 employees and a TCR of 5.6 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Heartland Catfish Company
Heartland Catfish Company (334 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 114 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Heartland Catfish Company has more employees than the Seafood and seafood products manufacturi median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.6. 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 3.6 1.7 12 1 1
2023 4.2 2.7 12 2 1
2020 4.0 3.0 12 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311710 · MS · Itta Bena

231 Seafood and seafood products manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,083 rated employers in Mississippi with headcount on file · 3 employers in Itta Bena, 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 M/V Aleutian Falcon 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Acme Smoked Fish FL 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bumble Bee Foods Snow 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR King and Prince Seafood Brunswick 3.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE WM 105 334 FTE
STATE-SIZE US Foods Jackson 335 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1168 333 FTE
STATE-SIZE Columbus Mill 336 FTE
CITY-NEAR Americas Catch 362 FTE
CITY-NEAR Quito Gin, Inc. 22 FTE
NAT-TCR Carlinville Area Hospital 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Nathan Littauer Hospital and Nursing Home 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Jane Hatchery 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Ralco Nutrition, Inc. 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Superior Mechanical Tennessee Valley Company 334 FTE
NAT-SIZE Robert Bosch LLC 334 FTE
NAT-SIZE Texas Pride Trailers 334 FTE
NAT-SIZE Parkview Park Center 334 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, 2020. 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.