Tires, plastics, manufacturing · Mississippi

Tupelo Cooper Tire & Rubber Plant (SIC 3011)

Tupelo, MS · ~1,416 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Tupelo Cooper Tire & Rubber Plant (SIC 3011) runs at 122% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Tires, plastics, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Tupelo Cooper Tire & Rubber Plant (SIC 3011): 4.0 TCR = 122% of Tires, plastics, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tupelo Cooper Tire & Rubber Plant (SIC 3011) safety composite

Tupelo Cooper Tire & Rubber Plant (SIC 3011) scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 33%), 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% 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

Tupelo Cooper Tire & Rubber Plant (SIC 3011): 2.3 → 4.0 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 6.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.74× in 2021

Tupelo Cooper Tire & Rubber Plant (SIC 3011)'s TCR rose 1.7 from 2.3 in 2016 to 4.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 6.4 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.74× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326199 · Tupelo, MS ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade D · TCR 4.0 · 122% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK #11/16
  • PHOTO PCPI
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 242 inj
  • SIZE ~1,416 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: PCPI (0.0 TCR gap)

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Tupelo Cooper Tire & Rubber Plant (SIC 3011) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Tupelo Cooper Tire & Rubber Plant (SIC 3011) averages 4.0 TCR (122% of the Tires, plastics, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Tupelo Cooper Tire & Rubber Plant (SIC 3011) TCR series: 2016=2.3 · 2018=2.4 · 2019=5.1 · 2020=6.4 · 2021=4 · BLS 3.3

Where Tupelo Cooper Tire & Rubber Plant (SIC 3011) falls in its industry

2,838 Tires, plastics, manufacturing establishments

Safer than 42% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Mississippi alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 16 Tires, plastics, manufacturing employers in Mississippi.

Tupelo Cooper Tire & Rubber Plant (SIC 3011) (1,416 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Tupelo Cooper Tire & Rubber Plant (SIC 3011)
Tupelo Cooper Tire & Rubber Plant (SIC 3011) (1,416 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Tupelo Cooper Tire & Rubber Plant (SIC 3011) has more employees than the Tires, plastics, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2021 4.0 3.0 57 4 0
2020 6.4 5.0 48 31 0
2019 5.1 3.1 75 1 0
2018 2.4 1.3 31 2 0
2016 2.3 1.2 31 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326199 · MS · Tupelo

2,838 Tires, plastics, 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 PCPI 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR North America : Vista 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Koba Corp 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hansen Plastics Corporation 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mississippi Reman 1,398 FTE
STATE-SIZE MSJAC - JACKSON 1,458 FTE
STATE-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - MEM3 1,470 FTE
STATE-SIZE Olin Winchester, LLC 1,489 FTE
CITY-NEAR North Mississippi Medical Center 5,727 FTE
CITY-NEAR JESCO, Inc. 394 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tupelo Operations 393 FTE
CITY-NEAR 258 354 FTE
NAT-TCR McDermaid Roofing & Insulating Co. 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Kearny Mesa Chevrolet 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Rolling Hills Country Club 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Gregs Supermarket #3 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE 102148 - Cove Point LNG Export Terminal 1,416 FTE
NAT-SIZE Celgene Corp. - Summit West 1,416 FTE
NAT-SIZE Paschall Truck Lines, Inc 1,416 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ariel Corporation 1,416 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.