Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing · Mississippi

Sunshine Mills Tupelo, MS

Tupelo, MS · ~186 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.4
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sunshine Mills Tupelo, MS runs at 114% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Sunshine Mills Tupelo, MS: 4.4 TCR = 114% of Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 6y 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 38%), 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 4.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% 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%).

Sunshine Mills Tupelo, MS held a steady TCR band

Sunshine Mills Tupelo, MS's TCR held near 0.3 from 2.8 in 2019 to 3.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 7.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=2.8 · 2020=6.8 · 2021=7.0 · 2022=4.0 · 2023=3.0 · 2024=3.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 4.4 · 114% of ind

  • DART 2.2 DART
  • RANK P38
  • PHOTO American Nutrition
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 54 inj
  • SIZE ~186 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: American Nutrition (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 4.4 TCR (114% 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: 2019=2.8 · 2020=6.8 · 2021=7 · 2022=4 · 2023=3 · 2024=3.1 · BLS 3.9

Where Sunshine Mills Tupelo, MS falls in its industry

302 Pet food, dog and cat, manufac establishments

Safer than 38% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Sunshine Mills Tupelo, MS (186 employees, TCR 4.4) 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 (186 employees, TCR 4.4) 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
2024 3.1 2.2 7 0 0
2023 3.0 1.3 6 1 0
2022 4.0 2.7 8 1 0
2021 7.0 4.5 14 0 0
2020 6.8 5.8 13 1 0
2019 2.8 1.4 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311111 · MS · Tupelo

302 Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,083 rated employers in Mississippi with headcount on file · 144 employers in Tupelo, 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 American Nutrition 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Midwestern Pet Foods, Inc. - Chickasha 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rockville 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bil-Jac Foods Inc. 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Main 186 FTE
STATE-SIZE Xerium / Weavexx 186 FTE
STATE-SIZE SWM/Blauer 186 FTE
STATE-SIZE MCCOMB 186 FTE
CITY-NEAR North Mississippi Medical Center 5,727 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tupelo Cooper Tire & Rubber Plant (SIC 3011) 1,416 FTE
CITY-NEAR JESCO, Inc. 394 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tupelo Operations 393 FTE
NAT-TCR Grand Haven 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Main Office 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Pathways PACE-PCI 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Senior Supported Shared Living 4.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hendrick Center for Rehabilitation 186 FTE
NAT-SIZE Church of the Brethren Home, INC dba Timbercrest Senior Living Community 186 FTE
NAT-SIZE Construction 186 FTE
NAT-SIZE JLG - Crayton 186 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, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.