Soft drinks merchant wholesalers · Mississippi

Pepsi-Cola of Meridian

Meridian, MS · ~57 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.9
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Pepsi-Cola of Meridian runs at 176% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Soft drinks merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Pepsi-Cola of Meridian: 3.9 TCR = 176% of Soft drinks merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Pepsi-Cola of Meridian safety composite

Pepsi-Cola of Meridian scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 76% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 33%), 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

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 3.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Pepsi-Cola of Meridian: 1.7 → 6.3 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 7.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.64× in 2024

Pepsi-Cola of Meridian's TCR rose 4.6 from 1.7 in 2016 to 6.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 7.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.64× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424490 · Meridian, MS ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.9 · 176% of ind

  • DART 6.3 DART
  • RANK #7/11
  • PHOTO C046 Terre Haute
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~57 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: C046 Terre Haute (0.0 TCR gap)

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Pepsi-Cola of Meridian in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Pepsi-Cola of Meridian averages 3.9 TCR (176% of the Soft drinks merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Pepsi-Cola of Meridian TCR series: 2016=1.7 · 2017=1.8 · 2018=7.6 · 2019=0 · 2020=7.9 · 2021=4.4 · 2022=3 · 2023=1.9 · 2024=6.3 · BLS 2.2

Where Pepsi-Cola of Meridian falls in its industry

1,278 Soft drinks merchant wholesale establishments

Safer than 76% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Mississippi alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 11 Soft drinks merchant wholesale employers in Mississippi.

Pepsi-Cola of Meridian (57 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 6.0 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Pepsi-Cola of Meridian
Pepsi-Cola of Meridian (57 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 6.0

Pepsi-Cola of Meridian has fewer employees than the Soft drinks merchant wholesalers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.0. 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
2024 6.3 6.3 3 0 0
2023 1.9 1.9 1 0 0
2022 3.0 3.0 2 0 0
2021 4.4 4.4 3 0 0
2020 7.9 7.9 5 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 7.6 6.1 5 0 0
2017 1.8 1.8 1 0 0
2016 1.7 1.7 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424490 · MS · Meridian

1,278 Soft drinks merchant wholesalers 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 C046 Terre Haute 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 15038 McAllen, TX 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR CA - Castroville - 11205 Commercial Pkwy - The American Bottling Company 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Coca Cola Bottling Company of Fort Smith, LLLP 3.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE TJ Beall Company 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rankin Network 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pine Belt Division Office 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Premium Waters Jackson 57 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 Cellofoam - Conyers, GA 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR North Idaho Distributing 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Reparex 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Okeechobee 3.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Accent Electrical Services 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Deer Park #135 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE 801 Spring Creek Road 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE DPL- Millsboro 57 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.