Poultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing · Mississippi

Peco Foods Inc. (Bay Springs Plant)

Bay Springs, MS · ~746 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Peco Foods Inc. (Bay Springs Plant) runs at 117% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Poultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing workplace, earning a grade C.

Peco Foods Inc. (Bay Springs Plant): 3.9 TCR = 117% of Poultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Peco Foods Inc. (Bay Springs Plant) safety composite

Peco Foods Inc. (Bay Springs Plant) scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 35%), 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).

D

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 54% 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

2020→2021

Peco Foods Inc. (Bay Springs Plant) injury rate improved

Peco Foods Inc. (Bay Springs Plant)'s TCR fell 0.7 from 4.2 in 2020 to 3.5 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 4.2 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.57× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=4.2 · 2021=3.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311615 · Bay Springs, MS ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.9 · 117% of ind

  • DART 2.2 DART
  • RANK #22/41
  • PHOTO Sanderson Farms Coll…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 46 inj
  • SIZE ~746 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sanderson Farms Collins Processing (0.0 TCR gap)

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Peco Foods Inc. (Bay Springs Plant) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Peco Foods Inc. (Bay Springs Plant) averages 3.9 TCR (117% of the Poultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing BLS benchmark).

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

Peco Foods Inc. (Bay Springs Plant) TCR series: 2020=4.2 · 2021=3.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Peco Foods Inc. (Bay Springs Plant) falls in its industry

509 Poultry slaughtering, dressing establishments

Safer than 45% 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 #22 safest of 41 Poultry slaughtering, dressing employers in Mississippi.

Peco Foods Inc. (Bay Springs Plant) (746 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 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 05001,0001,5002,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Peco Foods Inc. (Bay Springs Plant)
Peco Foods Inc. (Bay Springs Plant) (746 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Peco Foods Inc. (Bay Springs Plant) has more employees than the Poultry slaughtering, dressing, and pack median and a higher 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
2021 3.5 2.2 23 1 0
2020 4.2 3.7 23 7 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311615 · MS · Bay Springs

509 Poultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,083 rated employers in Mississippi with headcount on file · 23 employers in Bay Springs, 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 Collins Processing 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Farmers Pride Inc Plant 3 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Brakebush Brothers, Inc. 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR PECO Foods West Point 3.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Belhaven University 745 FTE
STATE-SIZE Steel Dynamics, Inc. - FR Columbus 753 FTE
STATE-SIZE KLLM Transport Services (MS) 737 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rush Foundation Hospital 737 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bay Springs Processing Facility 704 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bay Springs, MS Processing Plant 641 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hol-Mac Corporation Plant 3 223 FTE
CITY-NEAR HMC P-2 213 FTE
NAT-TCR BLI1 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Foam Fabricators, Inc 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Conecsus Tejas 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Sutter Medical Foundation (185-247) 3.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Astec, Inc. 746 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6458-ZWRT 746 FTE
NAT-SIZE Foot Locker Corporate Services Inc. 746 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1115 Washington St SE 746 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.