Wire and Cable Manufacturing · Mississippi

Southwire Company Starkville Plant

Starkville, MS · ~241 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities

The verdict

Southwire Company Starkville Plant runs at 28% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Wire and Cable Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.9
avg TCR · per 100 workers
3.3
industry benchmark (BLS)
20
recordable injuries tracked

Grade compares Southwire Company Starkville Plant's OSHA Total Case Rate of 0.9 to the Wire and Cable Manufacturing BLS benchmark of 3.3 (28% of benchmark) across 7 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). <a href="/methodology">See methodology</a> for reporting-limitation caveats.

Injury rate over time

Southwire Company Starkville Plant's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 3.3 industry benchmark.

-101234 2016201720182019202220232024 0.43.3 Industry benchmarkSouthwire Company Starkville Plant TCR
Total Case Rate (recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers), OSHA ITA Form 300A. Industry benchmark: BLS IIF, NAICS 331420.

Where Southwire Company Starkville Plant falls in its industry

206 Wire and Cable Manufacturing establishments

Safer than 87% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Mississippi alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 5 Wire and Cable Manufacturing employers in Mississippi.

Trend analysis for Southwire Company Starkville Plant

Between 2016 and 2024, Southwire Company Starkville Plant's Total Case Rate improved from 1.9 to 0.4 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 80% decrease across 8 years of OSHA reporting.

The safest year on record was 2023, at a TCR of 0.0, while 2016 saw the highest rate, at 1.9, a spread of 1.9 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a wide swing relative to the establishment's overall rate, worth checking the year-by-year table below for whether a single severe year is driving the average, rather than a sustained trend.

Summed across those 7 reporting years, Southwire Company Starkville Plant recorded 20 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 7-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.

Verify This Employer with OSHA

The 20 injuries shown on this page for Southwire Company Starkville Plant are sourced from its own 7 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.

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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 331420 - Wire and Cable Manufacturing.

DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2024)

What is the DART rate formula?

DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.

1 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 537,510 hours worked = 0.37 DART

Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping

Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State

Benchmark TCR Source
Southwire Company Starkville Plant (this establishment) 0.92 OSHA ITA Form 300A, 7-year avg
Aircraft and automotive wire or cable made from purchased copper in wire drawing plants industry avg 3.30 BLS IIF, NAICS 331420
Mississippi state avg (all industries) 3.72 OSHA ITA, state-level rollup

Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program

Reportable Incident Timeline

Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Southwire Company Starkville Plant to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.

Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2024 0.4 0.4 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.4 0.4 1 0 0
2019 0.6 0.3 2 0 0
2018 1.5 0.6 5 0 0
2017 1.6 1.3 5 0 0
2016 1.9 0.9 6 0 0

What this grade means for you

Use this grade as a relative read on Southwire Company Starkville Plant's reported OSHA injury record, strong versus its Wire and Cable Manufacturing peers, but not a guarantee about any single site today.

  • At 28% of the Wire and Cable Manufacturing benchmark, Southwire Company Starkville Plant reports fewer injuries than typical peers, still worth asking how safety is managed day to day. Know your rights
  • Judge this record against the wider Wire and Cable Manufacturing sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
  • Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another

Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Southwire Company Starkville Plant's safety grade?
Southwire Company Starkville Plant has a safety grade of A (Excellent Safety Record). This grade is based on their average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 0.9 compared to the BLS industry benchmark of 3.3 for Wire and Cable Manufacturing.
How many injuries has Southwire Company Starkville Plant reported?
Southwire Company Starkville Plant has reported 20 total injuries and 0 fatalities across 7 years of OSHA data (2024, 2023, 2022, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016). This data comes from mandatory OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA) reports.

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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, 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. Retrieved and formatted by PlainSafetyScore Editorial

Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.