Specialized Freight(except used goods) Trucking, Local · Mississippi

Sanderson Farms Laurel Live Haul

Laurel, MS · ~22 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sanderson Farms Laurel Live Haul runs at 102% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Specialized Freight(except used goods) Trucking, Local workplace, earning a grade C.

Sanderson Farms Laurel Live Haul: 4.6 TCR = 102% of Specialized Freight(except used goods) Trucking, Local BLS 4.5 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sanderson Farms Laurel Live Haul safety composite

Sanderson Farms Laurel Live Haul scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 25%), 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

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

Sanderson Farms Laurel Live Haul: 0.0 → 4.2 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 11.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.91× in 2023

Sanderson Farms Laurel Live Haul's TCR rose 4.2 from 0.0 in 2016 to 4.2 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 11.6 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.91× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484220 · Laurel, MS ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.6 · 102% of ind

  • DART 4.2 DART
  • RANK #13/14
  • PHOTO Bell and Sons Trucki…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bell and Sons Trucking Co Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sanderson Farms Laurel Live Haul in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sanderson Farms Laurel Live Haul averages 4.6 TCR (102% of the Specialized Freight(except used goods) Trucking, Local BLS benchmark).

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

Sanderson Farms Laurel Live Haul TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=8.4 · 2019=4.2 · 2020=0 · 2021=8.4 · 2022=11.6 · 2023=4.2 · BLS 4.5

Where Sanderson Farms Laurel Live Haul falls in its industry

1,130 Specialized Freight(except use establishments

Safer than 33% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Mississippi alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 14 Specialized Freight(except use employers in Mississippi.

Sanderson Farms Laurel Live Haul (22 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 42 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Sanderson Farms Laurel Live Haul
Sanderson Farms Laurel Live Haul (22 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 42 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Sanderson Farms Laurel Live Haul has fewer employees than the Specialized Freight(except used goods) T median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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 4.2 4.2 1 0 0
2022 11.6 7.7 2 1 0
2021 8.4 8.4 2 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 4.2 4.2 1 0 0
2018 8.4 4.2 2 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484220 · MS · Laurel

1,130 Specialized Freight(except used goods) Trucking, Local employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,083 rated employers in Mississippi with headcount on file · 78 employers in Laurel, 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 Bell and Sons Trucking Co Inc 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 9613-0316 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hendrix 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 051 Decatur AL 4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Quito Gin, Inc. 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tunica Gin Corporation 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hattiesburg Bill Payment Office 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brookhaven Office 22 FTE
CITY-NEAR Laurel 9,165 FTE
CITY-NEAR Howard Industries Inc (Transformer) 2,141 FTE
CITY-NEAR West Quality Food Service, Inc 1,567 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amick Farms, LLC MS Processing Plant 841 FTE
NAT-TCR Dept. of Natural Resources (24) 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Mental Health Association, Inc. 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Hunt Chrysler 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Bashas 079 4.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE C&W Global - Hollister 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ascension At Home (Infusion) Marshfield 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE FPH Construction, Inc. 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Slattery Mitchell, Inc. 22 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, 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.