Department stores, discount · Mississippi

Tupelo Dirt Cheap

Tupelo, MS · ~27 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.7
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Tupelo Dirt Cheap runs at 168% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Department stores, discount workplace, earning a grade D.

Tupelo Dirt Cheap: 5.7 TCR = 168% of Department stores, discount BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tupelo Dirt Cheap safety composite

Tupelo Dirt Cheap scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

DART rate
F 17.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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 Dirt Cheap: 0.0 → 17.1 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 17.1 TCR · DART/TCR 3× in 2023

Tupelo Dirt Cheap's TCR rose 17.1 from 0.0 in 2021 to 17.1 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452112 · Tupelo, MS ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.7 · 168% of ind

  • DART 17.1 DART
  • RANK #33/42
  • PHOTO 1821 - Manhattan
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 1821 - Manhattan (0.0 TCR gap)

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Tupelo Dirt Cheap in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Tupelo Dirt Cheap averages 5.7 TCR (168% of the Department stores, discount BLS benchmark).

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

Tupelo Dirt Cheap TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=17.1 · BLS 3.4

Where Tupelo Dirt Cheap falls in its industry

4,991 Department stores, discount establishments

Safer than 36% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Mississippi alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #33 safest of 42 Department stores, discount employers in Mississippi.

Tupelo Dirt Cheap (27 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Tupelo Dirt Cheap
Tupelo Dirt Cheap (27 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Tupelo Dirt Cheap has fewer employees than the Department stores, discount median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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
2023 17.1 17.1 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452112 · MS · Tupelo

4,991 Department stores, discount 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 1821 - Manhattan 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR WM 2867 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Meijer 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ross store 772 5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Purvis Forest Products, Inc. 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Farmers Gin, Inc. 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Grundfest and Klaus Gin, Inc. 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Vicksburg Network 27 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 Pine Grove Healthcare & Wellness Centre 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR South Haven Nursing & Rehabilitation Community 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Global III 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Lincoln Premium Poultry 5.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Stephenville Dirt Cheap 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE CAMERC-AEG-MERCED 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Beach Plum IRA - 16 Beach Plum Ln - Middle Island 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Crescent IRA - Coram 27 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: 2023, 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.