Animal feeds, prepared (except dog and cat), manufacturing · Mississippi

Kalmbach Feeds dba Ware Milling

Houston, MS · ~42 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.1
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kalmbach Feeds dba Ware Milling runs at 53% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Animal feeds, prepared (except dog and cat), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Kalmbach Feeds dba Ware Milling: 2.1 TCR = 53% of Animal feeds, prepared (except dog and cat), manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kalmbach Feeds dba Ware Milling safety composite

Kalmbach Feeds dba Ware Milling scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 23%), 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 2.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Kalmbach Feeds dba Ware Milling: 0.0 → 4.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.1 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2024

Kalmbach Feeds dba Ware Milling's TCR rose 4.1 from 0.0 in 2023 to 4.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311119 · Houston, MS AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.1 · 53% of ind

  • DART 4.1 DART
  • RANK #9/23
  • PHOTO Furst-McNess Company…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~42 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Furst-McNess Company (Johnston) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kalmbach Feeds dba Ware Milling in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kalmbach Feeds dba Ware Milling averages 2.1 TCR (53% of the Animal feeds, prepared (except dog and cat), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Kalmbach Feeds dba Ware Milling TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=4.1 · BLS 3.9

Where Kalmbach Feeds dba Ware Milling falls in its industry

756 Animal feeds, prepared (except establishments

Safer than 74% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Mississippi alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 23 Animal feeds, prepared (except employers in Mississippi.

Kalmbach Feeds dba Ware Milling (42 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 050100150200 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Kalmbach Feeds dba Ware Milling
Kalmbach Feeds dba Ware Milling (42 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Kalmbach Feeds dba Ware Milling has more employees than the Animal feeds, prepared (except dog and c median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 4.1 4.1 2 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311119 · MS · Houston

756 Animal feeds, prepared (except dog and cat), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,083 rated employers in Mississippi with headcount on file · 15 employers in Houston, 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 Furst-McNess Company (Johnston) 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR HUGOTON FM & DELIVERY 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Seaford DE Feed Mill 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kalmbach Feeds, Inc. 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Plant Ratcliffe 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pine Belt Service Center 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Coahoma Electric Power Association - Tunica 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Coahoma Electric Power Association - Coahoma 42 FTE
CITY-NEAR Franklin Corporation 879 FTE
CITY-NEAR Crest Foam Corp 110 FTE
CITY-NEAR International Paper 109 FTE
CITY-NEAR International Paper Houston Container 107 FTE
NAT-TCR J&L Manufacturing 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Gator Tampa 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Zotefoams Inc 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Glue Dots International 2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Liberty Packaging, Chicago 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Endur Contractors, LLC 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cranberry 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Midway 42 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.