Ashtrays, glass, made in glass making plants · Mississippi

Water-Way, Inc.

Iuka, MS · ~53 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Water-Way, Inc. runs at 123% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Ashtrays, glass, made in glass making plants workplace, earning a grade D.

Water-Way, Inc.: 4.1 TCR = 123% of Ashtrays, glass, made in glass making plants BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Water-Way, Inc. safety composite

Water-Way, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 9%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Water-Way, Inc.: 1.5 → 6.7 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 6.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.64× in 2019

Water-Way, Inc.'s TCR rose 5.2 from 1.5 in 2018 to 6.7 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 1.64× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327212 · Iuka, MS ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.1 · 123% of ind

  • DART 6.7 DART
  • RANK P36
  • PHOTO Perry Glass Studio
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~53 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Perry Glass Studio (0.1 TCR gap)

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Water-Way, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Water-Way, Inc. averages 4.1 TCR (123% of the Ashtrays, glass, made in glass making plants BLS benchmark).

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

Water-Way, Inc. TCR series: 2018=1.5 · 2019=6.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Water-Way, Inc. falls in its industry

75 Ashtrays, glass, made in glass establishments

Safer than 36% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Water-Way, Inc. (53 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 141 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Water-Way, Inc.
Water-Way, Inc. (53 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 141 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Water-Way, Inc. has fewer employees than the Ashtrays, glass, made in glass making pl median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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
2019 6.7 6.7 4 0 0
2018 1.5 1.5 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327212 · MS · Iuka

75 Ashtrays, glass, made in glass making plants employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,083 rated employers in Mississippi with headcount on file · 32 employers in Iuka, 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 Perry Glass Studio 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Daytona Glass Works, LLC 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Glass Eye Studio 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Schott Pharmaceutical Packaging 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Empire Group, Inc. 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Meridian Service Center 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Glass, Inc. 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE B Clean, LLC 53 FTE
CITY-NEAR NGAS-MS01 440 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation 427 FTE
CITY-NEAR Roll Form 184 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tishomingo Health Services 177 FTE
NAT-TCR Max & Erma's Monroeville 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR CS Wholesale Grocers : Mauldin, SC (PDC) 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 070 ABC Supply Co., Inc 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Turley Residential Center 4.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE PetersenDean Roofing and Solar Fresno-Solar 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Max & Erma's Mentor 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Osu 2011& 2013 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Covanta Long Beach Renewable Energy Corp. 53 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: 2019, 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.