automotive body paint and interior repair and maintenance · Mississippi

Starkville

Starkville, MS · ~207 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
2.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Starkville runs at 85% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical automotive body paint and interior repair and maintenance workplace, earning a grade C.

Starkville: 1.8 TCR = 85% of automotive body paint and interior repair and maintenance BLS 2.1 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Starkville safety composite

Starkville scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 32%), 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

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.4

2022→2024

Starkville injury rate improved

Starkville's TCR fell 0.4 from 2.9 in 2022 to 2.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 2.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=2.9 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=2.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 811121 · Starkville, MS AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 1.8 · 85% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK #2/6
  • PHOTO Baton Rouge
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~207 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Baton Rouge (0.0 TCR gap)

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Starkville in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Starkville averages 1.8 TCR (85% of the automotive body paint and interior repair and maintenance BLS benchmark).

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

Starkville TCR series: 2022=2.9 · 2023=0 · 2024=2.5 · BLS 2.1

Where Starkville falls in its industry

277 automotive body paint and inte establishments

Safer than 79% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Mississippi alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 6 automotive body paint and inte employers in Mississippi.

Starkville (207 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 3.6 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Starkville
Starkville (207 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 3.6

Starkville has more employees than the automotive body paint and interior repai median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.6. 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 2.5 2.5 2 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 2.9 1.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

811121 · MS · Starkville

277 automotive body paint and interior repair and maintenance employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,083 rated employers in Mississippi with headcount on file · 43 employers in Starkville, 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 Baton Rouge 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cape Coral 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Port Richey 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Applied Solutions Group (ASG) : Shred-Tech U.S 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Edelbrock Group 207 FTE
STATE-SIZE Unified Brands 206 FTE
STATE-SIZE Flexsteel Industries Incorporated 206 FTE
STATE-SIZE Foodservice Batesville - 0620 208 FTE
CITY-NEAR Clark Beverage Group Inc. (MS) 652 FTE
CITY-NEAR 112 381 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 112 357 FTE
CITY-NEAR Southwire Company Starkville Plant 241 FTE
NAT-TCR Rivers Edge Environmental Services,INC 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Houston Material Handling 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR R & J Trucking Gaston Terminal 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR OK057 Fletcher Gypsum 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Comstock Park Mi - 3101 207 FTE
NAT-SIZE Elkhart in - 3095 207 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ralston Ne - 3309 207 FTE
NAT-SIZE Springfield North Il - 3207 207 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. 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.