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Mississippi workplace safety

How 4,083 OSHA-reporting employers across Mississippi compare on workplace injuries, 2016–2024.

4,083
Employers
4.2
Avg TCR
71,181
Injuries
76
Fatalities

The state picture

Mississippi's reporting employers average 4.2 recordable injuries per 100 workers, 1.6 times the ~2.7 all-industry private-sector norm.

4.2
avg TCR · per 100 workers
4,083
employers reporting
71,181
recordable injuries
76
worker fatalities

State average reflects each state's industry mix. Sort the table below by each employer's own grade against its industry benchmark.

Mississippi grade distribution 4,083 graded establishments · width = share

14% of Mississippi's reporting establishments earn an F and 21% an A, each measured against its own industry benchmark, not the state line. These grades are a transparent derived index, not an official OSHA rating; see the Methodology for the exact formula.

Where Mississippi ranks among states

54 states & territories by avg TCR

Mississippi's average TCR of 4.2 is lower than 94% of states, a state average reflects industry mix as much as workplace safety.

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A second cut tells a different story: ranked by injury rate alone, Mississippi is #4 of 54. Ranked instead by fatalities per employer establishment, it's #49 of 54, a 45-place swing. A state can run a moderate everyday injury rate while its rarer, most severe incidents cluster differently; the two metrics measure different things and shouldn't be read as interchangeable.

How Mississippi Workplaces Compare

Mississippi hosts 4,083 employer establishments currently reporting to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. These are not small shops: federal rules require ITA submission from workplaces with 250+ employees in any industry, plus workplaces with 20+ employees in the roughly 60 NAICS codes classified as high-hazard (construction, manufacturing, healthcare, warehousing, agriculture, and others). Across this Mississippi cohort, workers have logged 71,181 recordable injuries, producing a state average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 4.2 injuries per 100 full-time workers per year during 2016–2024.

The state has recorded 76 workplace fatalities in the reporting window, which is tracked separately from non-fatal injury counts because fatal events have their own investigation trail under 29 CFR 1904.39. Reading state-level TCR requires context: the headline figure is driven by a state's industry mix. A state with a heavy construction, logging, or meatpacking footprint will mechanically post higher TCR than a state dominated by finance or professional services, even when individual employers are equally well-managed. That is why the employer table below sorts each establishment by its own TCR and letter grade, against the BLS benchmark for its specific industry, not against the state average.

For jobseekers, relocators, investors, and local safety professionals, state-level pages function as an entry point: use the grade-sorted list to spot the safest and highest-risk employers in Mississippi, then click through to an individual establishment for its year-by-year injury, illness, DART, and fatality trajectory. Compare multiple years before drawing conclusions, a single outlier year can reflect a specific event, whereas a sustained pattern across reporting cycles is a more reliable risk signal. All data comes directly from employer-submitted OSHA Form 300A summaries. State OSHA plans in 22 states operate their own enforcement programs in parallel, but the injury data above is harmonized through the federal ITA system.

Employers in Mississippi, by injury rate

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Employer CityIndustryGradeAvg TCR
Midsouth Baking Pelahatchie Commercial bakeries C 2.8
Gulfport Dirt Cheap Gulfport Department stores, discount C 2.8
Food Giant #581 Ripley Grocery stores C 2.8
Carpenters Pole and Piling Wiggins Poles, round wood, cutting a C 2.8
Hollywood Casino Gulf Coast Bay St. Louis Stand alone casinos (except C 2.8
Keystone Automotive Jackson Jackson Automotive parts, new, merch D 2.8
Bedford Care Center of Hattiesburg Hattiesburg Skilled nursing facilities A 2.8
STR0673 Gautier Department stores except dis C 2.8
LAUREL_1369948 Laurel Mail and Parcel Delivery B 2.8
35907 Hilton Garden Inn Hattiesburg Ms Hattiesburg Hotels C 2.8
Wm 874 Natchez Warehouse Clubs and Supercen C 2.8
DSC Poplarville Poplarville Dredging machinery manufactu C 2.8
SXP Hernando Hernando Pipe (e.g., heavy riveted, l C 2.8
1074 Grenada Warehouse Clubs and Supercen C 2.8
1808-00000803-1334 Hattiesburg Supermarket C 2.8
500437600 - Univ of Southern Mississippi Hattiesburg Food Services C 2.8
Mississippi State Penitentriary Parchman Home nursing services, priva B 2.7
602 - Meridian Meridian - C 2.7
273784-Jackson Ms P&Dc Jackson Mail and Parcel Delivery B 2.7
6U - Jackson Division Flowood General Line Grocery Merchan D 2.7
Harvest Select Hatchery Inverness Catfish production, farm rai B 2.7
Muller Copper Line Sets Fulton Nonferrous metal (except alu C 2.7
Waters International Trucks Inc. Meridian Tractors, highway, merchant D 2.7
Ernest Manning Construction Pascagoula Excavating, earthmoving, or C 2.7
Plum Creek Environmental Technologies, LLC. West Point Containers, light gauge meta C 2.7
Treasure Bay Casino Biloxi Casino hotels C 2.7
AHS Construction Co., LLC New Albany Excavating, earthmoving, or C 2.7
Rutland Lumber Yard Collins Sawmills C 2.7
Roses Express 1914 Columbus All Other General Merchandis B 2.7
Sequel Electrical Supply LLC Meridian Electrical supply stores B 2.7
20946 Gulfport Gulfport Bus operation, school and em B 2.7
Master Bilt Products New Albany Coolers, refrigeration, manu C 2.7
Darling Ingredients, Jackson MS Byram Fats, animal, rendering C 2.7
Wm 2720 Madison Warehouse Clubs and Supercen B 2.7
Metal Coaters of Mississippi Jackson Coating metals and metal pro C 2.7
Cross Technologies Inc Nissan Canton Canton Machinery and equipment, lar C 2.7
Madison Home Place Madison Assisted-living facilities w B 2.7
Bay Springs Processing Facility Bay Springs Chickens, processing, fresh, C 2.7
272717-Forest Po Forest Mail and Parcel Delivery B 2.7
6711 Brookhaven General Auto Repair (include D 2.7
122 Southaven - A 2.7
Evergreen Lumber & Truss Purvis Cants, resawed (lumber), man C 2.7
Brislin, Inc. Columbus Heating, ventilation and air C 2.7
Delta Furniture Manufacturing Pontotoc Upholstered furniture, house C 2.7
JJ Ferguson Sand & Gravel Greenwood Construction management, hig C 2.7
Puckett Machinery Company - Hattiesburg Hattiesburg Construction machinery and e D 2.7
Ergon Refining & Marketing Corporate Flowood Centralized administrative o F 2.7
2662-3010 Canton School and Employee Bus Tran B 2.7
047 TA Meridian Meridian Truck stops B 2.7
Columbia Plant Columbia Healthcare laundry processin D 2.7
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What Mississippi's safety record means for you

Mississippi averages a TCR of 4.2 - about 1.6× the ~2.7 national private-sector norm. A state average hides wide employer-by-employer variation.

State averages use the credible-subset mean across reporting establishments; they are statistical summaries, not regulatory assessments.

Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.