Transformers, electric power, manufacturing · Mississippi

Howard Industries Inc. (Quitman)

Quitman, MS · ~56 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Howard Industries Inc. (Quitman) runs at 192% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Transformers, electric power, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Howard Industries Inc. (Quitman): 6.3 TCR = 192% of Transformers, electric power, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Howard Industries Inc. (Quitman) safety composite

Howard Industries Inc. (Quitman) scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.6

2023→2024

Howard Industries Inc. (Quitman) injury rate improved

Howard Industries Inc. (Quitman)'s TCR fell 0.6 from 6.7 in 2023 to 6.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 6.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.76× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=6.7 · 2024=6.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 335311 · Quitman, MS ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.3 · 192% of ind

  • DART 4.8 DART
  • RANK #5/9
  • PHOTO Neeltran, Inc.
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~56 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Neeltran, Inc. (0.1 TCR gap)

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Howard Industries Inc. (Quitman) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Howard Industries Inc. (Quitman) averages 6.3 TCR (192% of the Transformers, electric power, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Howard Industries Inc. (Quitman) TCR series: 2023=6.7 · 2024=6 · BLS 3.3

Where Howard Industries Inc. (Quitman) falls in its industry

141 Transformers, electric power, establishments

Safer than 15% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

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 9 Transformers, electric power, employers in Mississippi.

Howard Industries Inc. (Quitman) (56 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 120 employees and a TCR of 2.6 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Howard Industries Inc. (Quitman)
Howard Industries Inc. (Quitman) (56 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 120 employees and a TCR of 2.6

Howard Industries Inc. (Quitman) has fewer employees than the Transformers, electric power, manufactur median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.6. 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 6.0 4.8 4 1 0
2023 6.7 6.7 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

335311 · MS · Quitman

141 Transformers, electric power, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,083 rated employers in Mississippi with headcount on file · 9 employers in Quitman, 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 Neeltran, Inc. 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Howard Industries Inc (Transformer) 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Niagara Power Transformer Corp 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR MK Magnetics, Inc. 6.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Jackson Network 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Key Constructors, LLC 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Robinson Electric Company, Inc. 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Moses Electric, Inc. - Gulfport 56 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dart Container Quitman 202 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lakeside Health and Rehabilitation Center 142 FTE
CITY-NEAR H.C. Watkins Memorial Hospital 117 FTE
CITY-NEAR Quitman Pellets, LLC 43 FTE
NAT-TCR Port Orange 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Climb Concrete 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Careone at Ridgewood Avenue 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Danbury Millersburg 6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE S.J. Distributors LLC-Sacramento Warehouse 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Sharp Coronado Hospital Hskp 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE IHS Ballard Nursing Center Inc 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ella S.A. Contracting, L.P. 56 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.