Blood banking · Mississippi

Vitalant MS Hattiesburg

Hattiesburg, MS · ~41 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.2
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Vitalant MS Hattiesburg runs at 136% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Blood banking workplace, earning a grade D.

Vitalant MS Hattiesburg: 5.2 TCR = 136% of Blood banking BLS 3.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Vitalant MS Hattiesburg safety composite

Vitalant MS Hattiesburg scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 39%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% 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%).

TCR Δ

−21.1

2018→2023

Vitalant MS Hattiesburg injury rate improved

Vitalant MS Hattiesburg's TCR fell 21.1 from 21.1 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2018 at 21.1 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=21.1 · 2020=4.8 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621991 · Hattiesburg, MS ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.2 · 136% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #15/17
  • PHOTO Lakeland, FL-BioLife
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~41 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lakeland, FL-BioLife (0.0 TCR gap)

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Vitalant MS Hattiesburg in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Vitalant MS Hattiesburg averages 5.2 TCR (136% of the Blood banking BLS benchmark).

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

Vitalant MS Hattiesburg TCR series: 2018=21.1 · 2020=4.8 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · BLS 3.8

Where Vitalant MS Hattiesburg falls in its industry

1,713 Blood banking establishments

Safer than 39% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Mississippi alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 17 Blood banking employers in Mississippi.

Vitalant MS Hattiesburg (41 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 4.3 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Vitalant MS Hattiesburg
Vitalant MS Hattiesburg (41 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Vitalant MS Hattiesburg has fewer employees than the Blood banking median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.3. 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
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 4.8 0.0 2 0 0
2018 21.1 11.7 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621991 · MS · Hattiesburg

1,713 Blood banking employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,083 rated employers in Mississippi with headcount on file · 186 employers in Hattiesburg, 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 Lakeland, FL-BioLife 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR VAPORT-OPI-PORTSMOUTH 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR New Jersey Organ and Tissue Sharing Network Inc. 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR United Blood Services-Rapid City 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hollandale, MS 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Plant David Ratcliffe MPC5414 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE CenterPoint Energy - Gulfport 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Roy Construction Company, Inc. 41 FTE
CITY-NEAR HATTIESBURG FOOD 8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hattiesburg 4,161 FTE
CITY-NEAR Processing Plant 1,173 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mar-Jac Poultry MS LLC - Processing Plant 1,163 FTE
NAT-TCR Colorado Doorways, Inc. 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 10380 Medford (WO) 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Viking Inc Holden 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR CS Cape 5.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE NurseCore of St Petersburg 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Structurewerks 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cisne RHCC 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Royal Roofing Company 41 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, 2020, 2018. 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.