Employer · Mississippi

Laurel feed mill

Laurel, MS · ~26 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.2
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Laurel feed mill runs at 56% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade B.

Laurel feed mill: 2.2 TCR = 56% of industry BLS 3.9 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Laurel feed mill safety composite

Laurel feed mill scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 76% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% 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%).

Laurel feed mill held a steady TCR band

Laurel feed mill's TCR held near 0.1 from 2.2 in 2017 to 2.1 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 2.2 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=2.2 · 2018=2.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade B · TCR 2.2 · 56% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #11/23
  • PHOTO Sanderson Farms Pale…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sanderson Farms Palestine Feed Mill (0.0 TCR gap)

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Laurel feed mill in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Laurel feed mill averages 2.2 TCR (56% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Laurel feed mill TCR series: 2017=2.2 · 2018=2.1 · BLS 3.9

Where Laurel feed mill falls in its industry

756 industry establishments

Safer than 72% 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 #11 safest of 23 industry employers in Mississippi.

Laurel feed mill (26 employees, TCR 2.2) 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 Laurel feed mill
Laurel feed mill (26 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Laurel feed mill has fewer employees than the industry 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
2018 2.1 0.0 1 0 0
2017 2.2 2.2 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311119 · MS · Laurel

756 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,083 rated employers in Mississippi with headcount on file · 78 employers in Laurel, 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 Sanderson Farms Palestine Feed Mill 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Famo Feeds, Inc. 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cargill SSTNA Bovina 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sanderson Farms Collins Feed Mill 2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE 1521 S FRONTAGE RD COLUMBUS MS 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Progressive Constuction 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Prairie Construction,L.L.C. 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ergon Construction Group - ISO Services Richland 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR Laurel 9,165 FTE
CITY-NEAR Howard Industries Inc (Transformer) 2,141 FTE
CITY-NEAR West Quality Food Service, Inc 1,567 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amick Farms, LLC MS Processing Plant 841 FTE
NAT-TCR Fargo Assembly Of Pa, Inc. 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Nevada Restaurant Services Inc. dba Dotty's 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Overland Park Nursing Rehab 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR MO Hannibal 2.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE North Coast Lighting Services, Inc. 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Location #3 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Industrial Equipment Division - East 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE S08610 - WMRA Capitol MRF 26 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: 2018, 2017. 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.