Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing · Alabama

Sunshine Mills Tupelo, MS

Tupelo, AL · ~177 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sunshine Mills Tupelo, MS runs at 122% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Sunshine Mills Tupelo, MS: 4.8 TCR = 122% of Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sunshine Mills Tupelo, MS safety composite

Sunshine Mills Tupelo, MS scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 36%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% 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

−4.4

2016→2018

Sunshine Mills Tupelo, MS injury rate improved

Sunshine Mills Tupelo, MS's TCR fell 4.4 from 7.3 in 2016 to 2.9 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 7.3 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.44× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.3 · 2017=4.0 · 2018=2.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311111 · Tupelo, AL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.8 · 122% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #3/6
  • PHOTO Big V Feeds, Inc.
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 28 inj
  • SIZE ~177 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Big V Feeds, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sunshine Mills Tupelo, MS in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sunshine Mills Tupelo, MS averages 4.8 TCR (122% of the Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Sunshine Mills Tupelo, MS TCR series: 2016=7.3 · 2017=4 · 2018=2.9 · BLS 3.9

Where Sunshine Mills Tupelo, MS falls in its industry

302 Pet food, dog and cat, manufac establishments

Safer than 36% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 6 Pet food, dog and cat, manufac employers in Alabama.

Sunshine Mills Tupelo, MS (177 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 103 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 0200400600 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Sunshine Mills Tupelo, MS
Sunshine Mills Tupelo, MS (177 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 103 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Sunshine Mills Tupelo, MS has more employees than the Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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
2018 2.9 2.1 6 1 0
2017 4.0 3.0 8 0 0
2016 7.3 4.7 14 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311111 · AL · Tupelo

302 Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 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 Big V Feeds, Inc. 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Muenster Milling Company LLC 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR PENNSAUKEN PET FOOD 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wellness Pet LLC 4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE MONTGOMERY PACKERS 177 FTE
STATE-SIZE Allied Motion Technologies - Dothan 177 FTE
STATE-SIZE Enterprise UTM 177 FTE
STATE-SIZE Birmingham Budweiser 177 FTE
NAT-TCR Waycross (Gaway) 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #5206 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 0283 - Valrico, Fl 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Continental Datalabel Elgin 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Santa Maria Center (Casam) 177 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hollywood (Flhol) 177 FTE
NAT-SIZE Central Texas Region 177 FTE
NAT-SIZE Howell (Mihow) 177 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.