Tractors, farm and garden, merchant wholesalers · Mississippi

SunSouth Carthage

Carthage, MS · ~19 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.4
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

SunSouth Carthage runs at 383% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Tractors, farm and garden, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

SunSouth Carthage: 8.4 TCR = 383% of Tractors, farm and garden, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

SunSouth Carthage safety composite

SunSouth Carthage scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 13%), 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).

F

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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

−2.4

2019→2024

SunSouth Carthage injury rate improved

SunSouth Carthage's TCR fell 2.4 from 13.1 in 2019 to 10.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 16.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.63× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=13.1 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=16.0 · 2022=5.3 · 2023=5.3 · 2024=10.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423820 · Carthage, MS ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.4 · 383% of ind

  • DART 5.3 DART
  • RANK #4/4
  • PHOTO 10-Brockport
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 10-Brockport (0.0 TCR gap)

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SunSouth Carthage in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows SunSouth Carthage averages 8.4 TCR (383% of the Tractors, farm and garden, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

SunSouth Carthage TCR series: 2019=13.1 · 2020=0 · 2021=16 · 2022=5.3 · 2023=5.3 · 2024=10.7 · BLS 2.2

Where SunSouth Carthage falls in its industry

700 Tractors, farm and garden, mer establishments

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Mississippi alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 4 Tractors, farm and garden, mer employers in Mississippi.

SunSouth Carthage (19 employees, TCR 8.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 4.2 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate SunSouth Carthage
SunSouth Carthage (19 employees, TCR 8.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 4.2

SunSouth Carthage has fewer employees than the Tractors, farm and garden, merchant whol median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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 10.7 5.3 2 0 0
2023 5.3 5.3 1 0 0
2022 5.3 5.3 1 0 0
2021 16.0 5.3 3 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 13.1 8.7 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423820 · MS · Carthage

700 Tractors, farm and garden, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,083 rated employers in Mississippi with headcount on file · 18 employers in Carthage, MS · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR 10-Brockport 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Greene 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR AGRITEER, LLC - HARRISONBURG 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Churchill Equipment Company-Manhattan 8.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Magee Hatchery (MLO) 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nature's Catch, LLC 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Yalobusha County Gin 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Four County Gin, Inc 19 FTE
CITY-NEAR Carthage Plant (Choctaw) 1,534 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pearl River Foods LLC 347 FTE
CITY-NEAR 305 206 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 305 195 FTE
NAT-TCR 1924 - Chicago Brickyard 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Eastcastle Place 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR SHU Diner 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Fs-Seton Kyle 8.4 TCR

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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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