Beverages, alcoholic (except distilled spirits, wine), merchant wholesalers · Mississippi

Southern Beverage Company Laurel

Name: Southern Beverage Company Laurel Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Laurel, MS · ~25 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 7.8
Avg TCR: 2.2
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Southern Beverage Company Laurel runs at 353% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Beverages, alcoholic (except distilled spirits, wine), merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Southern Beverage Company Laurel: 7.8 TCR = 353% of Beverages, alcoholic (except distilled spirits, wine), merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Southern Beverage Company Laurel safety composite

Southern Beverage Company Laurel scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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).

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 7.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers
DART rate: D 4.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% 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

Southern Beverage Company Laurel: 7.4 → 8.1 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 8.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.52× in 2022

Southern Beverage Company Laurel's TCR rose 0.7 from 7.4 in 2021 to 8.1 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 0.52× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424810 · Laurel, MS ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.8 · 353% of ind

DART 4.1 DART
RANK #11/13
PHOTO Blach Beverage LLC
BOOK 2y book
INJ 4 inj
SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Blach Beverage LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Southern Beverage Company Laurel averages 7.8 TCR (353% of the Beverages, alcoholic (except distilled spirits, wine), merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

Southern Beverage Company Laurel TCR series: 2021=7.4 · 2022=8.1 · BLS 2.2

Where Southern Beverage Company Laurel falls in its industry

664 Beverages, alcoholic (except d establishments

Safer than 35% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.4.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Mississippi alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 13 Beverages, alcoholic (except d employers in Mississippi.

Southern Beverage Company Laurel (25 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 6.4

Southern Beverage Company Laurel has fewer employees than the Beverages, alcoholic (except distilled s median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.4. 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
2022	8.1	4.1	2	0	0
2021	7.4	3.7	2	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424810 · MS · Laurel

664 Beverages, alcoholic (except distilled spirits, wine), merchant wholesalers 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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Blach Beverage LLC	REDDING, CA	7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	General Beer Northwest - Chippewa Falls	CHIPPEWA FALLS, WI	7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	High Country Beverage - Grand Junction	GRAND JUNCTION, CO	7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	N.H. Scheppers Distributing - Jefferson City	JEFFERSON CITY, MO	7.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Growout	WAYBESBORO	25 FTE
STATE-SIZE	CAL-MAINE MENDENHALL HATCHERY	MENDENHALL	25 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Provine Helicopter Service	GREENWOOD	25 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Biloxie Service Center	BILOXI	25 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Laurel	Laurel	9,165 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Howard Industries Inc (Transformer)	Laurel	2,141 FTE
CITY-NEAR	West Quality Food Service, Inc	Laurel	1,567 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Amick Farms, LLC MS Processing Plant	Laurel	841 FTE
NAT-TCR	6957-EWR	Newark, NJ	7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	HG311	Shorewood, IL	7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Parkview Behavioral Health	Fort Wayne, IN	7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Champlain Water District	S. Burlington, VT	7.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Iowa DOT - Ames Garage	Ames, IA	25 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Iowa DOT - Des Moines North Garage	Des Moines, IA	25 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Zbn King Machine of North Carolina	Charlotte, NC	25 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Tops #713	Peru, NY	25 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: 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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