Bridge construction · Mississippi

L & A Contracting Company

Hattiesburg, MS · ~81 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.8
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

L & A Contracting Company runs at 27% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Bridge construction workplace, earning a grade A.

L & A Contracting Company: 0.8 TCR = 27% of Bridge construction BLS 2.8 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

L & A Contracting Company safety composite

L & A Contracting Company scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 88% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 53%), 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).

B

77/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

−0.7

2016→2022

L & A Contracting Company injury rate improved

L & A Contracting Company's TCR fell 0.7 from 0.7 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2018 at 1.9 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.7 · 2017=1.9 · 2018=1.9 · 2019=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Hattiesburg, MS AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.8 · 27% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/50
  • PHOTO Acuff Enterprises, Inc
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~81 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Acuff Enterprises, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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L & A Contracting Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows L & A Contracting Company averages 0.8 TCR (27% of the Bridge construction BLS benchmark).

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

L & A Contracting Company TCR series: 2016=0.7 · 2017=1.9 · 2018=1.9 · 2019=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · BLS 2.8

Where L & A Contracting Company falls in its industry

4,078 Bridge construction establishments

Safer than 88% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

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 50 Bridge construction employers in Mississippi.

L & A Contracting Company (81 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 01,0002,0003,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate L & A Contracting Company
L & A Contracting Company (81 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

L & A Contracting Company has more employees than the Bridge construction median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 1.9 1.9 2 0 0
2017 1.9 1.3 3 0 0
2016 0.7 0.7 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · MS · Hattiesburg

4,078 Bridge construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,083 rated employers in Mississippi with headcount on file · 186 employers in Hattiesburg, 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 Acuff Enterprises, Inc 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR James Construction Group LLC -Louisiana 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Knife River Construction - Balwin Contracting - Chico 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Atlantic InfraRed, Inc. 0.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE R.C. Construction Co., Inc. Home Office 81 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gulf States Canners, Inc. 81 FTE
STATE-SIZE AFCO Olive Branch 81 FTE
STATE-SIZE Biltrite Ripley Operations, LLC 81 FTE
CITY-NEAR HATTIESBURG FOOD 8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hattiesburg 4,161 FTE
CITY-NEAR Processing Plant 1,173 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mar-Jac Poultry MS LLC - Processing Plant 1,163 FTE
NAT-TCR Norgren Automation Solutions, LLC 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Noltex 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Kastner Automotive Inc dba Kastner Honda 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR J.B. Moore 0.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Snell Farm 81 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kingsbury 81 FTE
NAT-SIZE Austin Eastciders Commercial Center Drive 81 FTE
NAT-SIZE GSI America, INC 81 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: 2022, 2021, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.