Animal feed mills (except dog and cat) manufacturing · Mississippi

Morton Feed Mill

Morton, MS · ~53 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.3
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Morton Feed Mill runs at 32% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Animal feed mills (except dog and cat) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Morton Feed Mill: 1.3 TCR = 32% of Animal feed mills (except dog and cat) manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Morton Feed Mill safety composite

Morton Feed Mill scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 87% 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

74/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.0

2018→2023

Morton Feed Mill injury rate improved

Morton Feed Mill's TCR fell 2.0 from 2.0 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2019 at 3.9 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=2.0 · 2019=3.9 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=1.7 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade A · TCR 1.3 · 32% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/23
  • PHOTO Witmer's Feed & Grai…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~53 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Witmer's Feed & Grain Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Morton Feed Mill in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Morton Feed Mill averages 1.3 TCR (32% of the Animal feed mills (except dog and cat) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Morton Feed Mill TCR series: 2018=2 · 2019=3.9 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=1.7 · 2023=0 · BLS 3.9

Where Morton Feed Mill falls in its industry

756 Animal feed mills (except dog establishments

Safer than 87% 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 #4 safest of 23 Animal feed mills (except dog employers in Mississippi.

Morton Feed Mill (53 employees, TCR 1.3) 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 Morton Feed Mill
Morton Feed Mill (53 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Morton Feed Mill has more employees than the Animal feed mills (except dog and cat) m 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
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 1.7 0.0 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 3.9 3.9 2 0 0
2018 2.0 2.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311119 · MS · Morton

756 Animal feed mills (except dog and cat) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,083 rated employers in Mississippi with headcount on file · 12 employers in Morton, 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 Witmer's Feed & Grain Inc 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR FeedMill 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Case Farms Feed Mill LLC 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cargill Animal Nutrition 1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Empire Group, Inc. 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Meridian Service Center 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Glass, Inc. 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE B Clean, LLC 53 FTE
CITY-NEAR Morton Processing Plant 1,016 FTE
CITY-NEAR Koch Foods Prepared Plant 770 FTE
CITY-NEAR Koch Foods (Further Processing) Plant 719 FTE
CITY-NEAR Koch Foods 489 FTE
NAT-TCR MPS of KY, LLC dba Westrock 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR SE Homes Home Office 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Bakersfield CGWC Bottled Tea Manufacturer 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Long Beach Response Center 1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Qualico Steel Company Texas Division 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE BBI Grand Prairie 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Union Mission, Inc. 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pugh Lubricants Norcross 53 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.