Meat and bone meal and tankage, produced in rendering plant · Mississippi

MS-Plant

Sunflower, MS · ~35 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

MS-Plant runs at 182% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Meat and bone meal and tankage, produced in rendering plant workplace, earning a grade D.

MS-Plant: 6.0 TCR = 182% of Meat and bone meal and tankage, produced in rendering plant BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

MS-Plant safety composite

MS-Plant scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 92% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 43%), 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

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

MS-Plant: 0.0 → 5.2 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 12.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2021

MS-Plant's TCR rose 5.2 from 0.0 in 2016 to 5.2 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 12.3 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311613 · Sunflower, MS ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.0 · 182% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/5
  • PHOTO Darling Ingredients …
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~35 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Darling Ingredients - Linkwood (0.0 TCR gap)

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MS-Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows MS-Plant averages 6.0 TCR (182% of the Meat and bone meal and tankage, produced in rendering plant BLS benchmark).

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

MS-Plant TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=2.6 · 2018=7.6 · 2019=8.2 · 2020=12.3 · 2021=5.2 · BLS 3.3

Where MS-Plant falls in its industry

151 Meat and bone meal and tankage establishments

Safer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Mississippi alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 5 Meat and bone meal and tankage employers in Mississippi.

MS-Plant (35 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 46 employees and a TCR of 5.6 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 050100150 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate MS-Plant
MS-Plant (35 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 46 employees and a TCR of 5.6

MS-Plant has fewer employees than the Meat and bone meal and tankage, produced median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.6. 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
2021 5.2 0.0 2 0 0
2020 12.3 4.9 5 0 0
2019 8.2 5.5 1 2 0
2018 7.6 5.0 2 1 0
2017 2.6 2.6 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311613 · MS · Sunflower

151 Meat and bone meal and tankage, produced in rendering plant employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,083 rated employers in Mississippi with headcount on file · 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 Darling Ingredients - Linkwood 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Los Angeles Plant 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR SIMMONS FEED INGREDIENTS-DRY 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Darling Ingredients Inc. Sioux City 6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE H2A Complete II, Inc. Atlantic Harvesting 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE THE MONROE COUNTY ELECTRIC POWER ASSOCIATION 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Main Branch 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Falcon Contracting Company Inc. 35 FTE
CITY-NEAR Protein Products, Inc. 37 FTE
NAT-TCR Sutter Care at Home (247-ROSE) 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR CHRISTUS Spohn Memorial 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Catalina Graphic Films 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Starr Textile Services of Louisiana 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE EMG West, INC 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bullseye Construction, Inc. 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Greenfield Industries Inc 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Orlando Wedding & Party Rentals 35 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: 2021, 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.