Commercial Bakeries · Mississippi

Meridian Ms Plant

Meridian, MS · ~171 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Meridian Ms Plant runs at 44% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Commercial Bakeries workplace, earning a grade A.

Meridian Ms Plant: 1.4 TCR = 44% of Commercial Bakeries BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Meridian Ms Plant safety composite

Meridian Ms Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 93% 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

72/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 93% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% 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

−1.3

2016→2023

Meridian Ms Plant injury rate improved

Meridian Ms Plant's TCR fell 1.3 from 3.2 in 2016 to 1.9 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2016 at 3.2 TCR. In 2023, DART was 1.28× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.2 · 2017=2.7 · 2018=0.6 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=1.9 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=1.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311812 · Meridian, MS AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.4 · 44% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #1/5
  • PHOTO Chicago Pastry Inc
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~171 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Chicago Pastry Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Meridian Ms Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Meridian Ms Plant averages 1.4 TCR (44% of the Commercial Bakeries BLS benchmark).

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

Meridian Ms Plant TCR series: 2016=3.2 · 2017=2.7 · 2018=0.6 · 2019=0 · 2020=1.9 · 2022=0 · 2023=1.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Meridian Ms Plant falls in its industry

1,014 Commercial Bakeries establishments

Safer than 93% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Mississippi alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 5 Commercial Bakeries employers in Mississippi.

Meridian Ms Plant (171 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 117 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Meridian Ms Plant
Meridian Ms Plant (171 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 117 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Meridian Ms Plant has more employees than the Commercial Bakeries median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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
2023 1.9 1.9 3 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 1.9 1.9 3 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.6 0.0 0 1 0
2017 2.7 2.1 5 0 0
2016 3.2 1.1 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311812 · MS · Meridian

1,014 Commercial Bakeries employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,083 rated employers in Mississippi with headcount on file · 147 employers in Meridian, 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 Chicago Pastry Inc 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hostess Brands Emporia 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR LAKE ZURICH IL (845 TELSER RD) SALES CENTER 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pain D'Avignon Bakery 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Floore Industrial Contractors, Inc. 171 FTE
STATE-SIZE Upchurch Plumbing Inc 171 FTE
STATE-SIZE Resolute Forest Products-Grenada Mill 171 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1721 LOWE S OF SOUTHAVEN MS 171 FTE
CITY-NEAR Anderson Regional Medical Center North Campus 1,189 FTE
CITY-NEAR Anderson Regional Medical Center 1,004 FTE
CITY-NEAR Progressive Pipeline Construction, LLC - Company 848 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rush Foundation Hospital 737 FTE
NAT-TCR Aerospace : Phoenix 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Automatic Fire Sprinkler, LLC 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR JMD Architectural Products, Inc 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 048-Hereford/E Park 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Reno-Northtowne #017 171 FTE
NAT-SIZE Slidematic Precision Components 171 FTE
NAT-SIZE United States Gypsum Co, Bridgeport Plant 171 FTE
NAT-SIZE Recovery Centers of America 171 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: 2023, 2022, 2020, 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.