Hand soaps (e.g., hard, liquid, soft) manufacturing · Mississippi

T&L Specialty Co

Tupelo, MS · ~22 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

T&L Specialty Co runs at 351% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Hand soaps (e.g., hard, liquid, soft) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

T&L Specialty Co: 11.6 TCR = 351% of Hand soaps (e.g., hard, liquid, soft) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

T&L Specialty Co safety composite

T&L Specialty Co scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 3%), 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

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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%).

Rising injury rate

T&L Specialty Co: 7.2 → 13.9 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 28.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.6× in 2024

T&L Specialty Co's TCR rose 6.7 from 7.2 in 2016 to 13.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 28.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.6× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325611 · Tupelo, MS ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.6 · 351% of ind

  • DART 7.0 DART
  • RANK P3
  • PHOTO Pariser Industries
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pariser Industries (0.4 TCR gap)

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T&L Specialty Co in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows T&L Specialty Co averages 11.6 TCR (351% of the Hand soaps (e.g., hard, liquid, soft) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

T&L Specialty Co TCR series: 2016=7.2 · 2017=3.8 · 2018=9.4 · 2019=0 · 2020=19.4 · 2021=10.6 · 2023=28.2 · 2024=13.9 · BLS 3.3

Where T&L Specialty Co falls in its industry

240 Hand soaps (e.g., hard, liquid establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
T&L Specialty Co (22 employees, TCR 11.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 2.3 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate T&L Specialty Co
T&L Specialty Co (22 employees, TCR 11.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 2.3

T&L Specialty Co has fewer employees than the Hand soaps (e.g., hard, liquid, soft) ma median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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 13.9 7.0 1 1 0
2023 28.2 11.3 5 0 0
2021 10.6 0.0 1 1 0
2020 19.4 14.6 4 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 9.4 9.4 2 0 0
2017 3.8 0.0 1 0 0
2016 7.2 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325611 · MS · Tupelo

240 Hand soaps (e.g., hard, liquid, soft) 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 Pariser Industries 12.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Royal Chemical 12.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Continental Manufacturing Chemist 10.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stinger Chemical 12.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Quito Gin, Inc. 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tunica Gin Corporation 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hattiesburg Bill Payment Office 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brookhaven Office 22 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 Commonwealth Senior Living at Charlottesville 11.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Brooks Tropicals, LLC 11.6 TCR
NAT-TCR LSB - Halsted St 11.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Crawfordsville LLC 11.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Rescar - Loc#376 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Creston 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lisbon 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ripon Service Building 22 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, 2021, 2020, 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.