Fast-food restaurants · Mississippi

West Quality Food Service, Inc

Name: West Quality Food Service, Inc Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Laurel, MS · ~1,567 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 2.5
Avg TCR: 3.0
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

West Quality Food Service, Inc runs at 83% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Fast-food restaurants workplace, earning a grade C.

West Quality Food Service, Inc: 2.5 TCR = 83% of Fast-food restaurants BLS 3.0 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

West Quality Food Service, Inc safety composite

West Quality Food Service, Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 42%), 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).

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 2.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers
DART rate: D 0.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% 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

−3.8

2016→2018

West Quality Food Service, Inc injury rate improved

West Quality Food Service, Inc's TCR fell 3.8 from 4.0 in 2016 to 0.1 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 4.0 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.02× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.0 · 2017=3.4 · 2018=0.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722513 · Laurel, MS AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade C · TCR 2.5 · 83% of ind

DART 0.1 DART
RANK #3/4
PHOTO BK #3588
BOOK 3y book
INJ 71 inj
SIZE ~1,567 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: BK #3588 (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows West Quality Food Service, Inc averages 2.5 TCR (83% of the Fast-food restaurants BLS benchmark).

West Quality Food Service, Inc TCR series: 2016=4 · 2017=3.4 · 2018=0.1 · BLS 3.0

Where West Quality Food Service, Inc falls in its industry

1,014 Fast-food restaurants establishments

Safer than 80% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Mississippi alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 4 Fast-food restaurants employers in Mississippi.

West Quality Food Service, Inc (1,567 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 34 employees and a TCR of 4.8

West Quality Food Service, Inc has more employees than the Fast-food restaurants median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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
2018	0.1	0.1	13	0
2017	3.4	1.3	35	0
2016	4.0	1.7	23	16

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722513 · MS · Laurel

1,014 Fast-food restaurants employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,083 rated employers in Mississippi with headcount on file · 78 employers in Laurel, MS · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	BK #3588	SPRINGFIELD, MA	2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	KFC-Kahului #020	KAHULUI, HI	2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	VITALIGENT LLC Jamba Juice 1578	RIVERBANK, CA	2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Patterson Erie Corporation	ERIE, PA	2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Pascagoula Refinery	PASCAGOULA	1,566 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Island View Casino Resort	GULFPORT	1,566 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Olive Branch 2	OLIVE BRANCH	1,580 FTE
STATE-SIZE	CHEVRON PASCAGOULA REFINERY	PASCAGULA	1,539 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Laurel	Laurel	9,165 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Howard Industries Inc (Transformer)	Laurel	2,141 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Amick Farms, LLC MS Processing Plant	Laurel	841 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Sanderson Farms Laurel Processing	Laurel	602 FTE
NAT-TCR	58-Buffalo Terminal	Tonawanda, NY	2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Armstrong Center for Medicine and Health	Kittaning, PA	2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Custom Food Coatings	Rome, GA	2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Astoria Healthcare Group, LLC	Germantown, OH	2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE	1855-ILARL009	Hoffman Estates, IL	1,567 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Forest Hills Hospital	Forest Hills, NY	1,567 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Central Regional Hospital	Butner, NC	1,567 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Willis-Knighton Pierremont Health Center	Shreveport, LA	1,567 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.