Industrial glassware and glass products, pressed or blown, made in glass making plants · Mississippi

Water-Way, Inc. (North)

Iuka, MS · ~106 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Water-Way, Inc. (North) runs at 85% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Industrial glassware and glass products, pressed or blown, made in glass making plants workplace, earning a grade C.

Water-Way, Inc. (North): 2.8 TCR = 85% of Industrial glassware and glass products, pressed or blown, made in glass making plants BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Water-Way, Inc. (North) safety composite

Water-Way, Inc. (North) scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 55% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 29%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% 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. (North): 2.6 → 3.0 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 3.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.08× in 2019

Water-Way, Inc. (North)'s TCR rose 0.5 from 2.6 in 2018 to 3.0 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 1.08× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327212 · Iuka, MS AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.8 · 85% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK P55
  • PHOTO Claremont Fiber Plant
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~106 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Claremont Fiber Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Water-Way, Inc. (North) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Water-Way, Inc. (North) averages 2.8 TCR (85% of the Industrial glassware and glass products, pressed or blown, 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. (North) TCR series: 2018=2.6 · 2019=3 · BLS 3.3

Where Water-Way, Inc. (North) falls in its industry

75 Industrial glassware and glass establishments

Safer than 55% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Water-Way, Inc. (North) (106 employees, TCR 2.8) 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. (North)
Water-Way, Inc. (North) (106 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 141 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Water-Way, Inc. (North) has fewer employees than the Industrial glassware and glass products, median and a lower 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 3.0 3.0 3 0 0
2018 2.6 2.6 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327212 · MS · Iuka

75 Industrial glassware and glass products, pressed or blown, 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 Claremont Fiber Plant 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR SP Industries - Vineland 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rossford Assembly 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tube Draw 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Trulite Glass and Aluminum Solutions 106 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eaton Custom Seating LLC 106 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4586 106 FTE
STATE-SIZE Unit # 2986 106 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 Nashville/Hendersonville (HP) 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Covanta Montgomery, Inc. - Transfer Station 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Rand Wv Depot 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Best Supply Eastlake 2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Champaign, IL 106 FTE
NAT-SIZE D & J Farm Management LLC 106 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hussmann Services Corporation- Coppell 106 FTE
NAT-SIZE Atlantic Tool & Die SEVILLE 106 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.