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Mississippi workplace safety

Name: Mississippi Employer Workplace Safety Data
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How 4,083 OSHA-reporting employers across Mississippi compare on workplace injuries, 2016–2024. Average TCR uses the 3,541 establishments with a credible rate (see methodology).

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

4,083
Employers: 4.2
Avg TCR (rated): 71,181
Injuries (all): 76
Fatalities (all)

TCR, interpreted

Far above average

4.2 avg TCR

Mississippi vs all states by OSHA-reporting employer count

Where this state's ITA establishment inventory sits among every tracked state and territory (coverage signal, not a safety ranking)

4,083 34th of 54 higher than 20 of 54 states

States and territories, banded by OSHA ITA reporting employer count

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Source official public datasets · 2026

The state picture

Mississippi's 3,541 rated 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 · rated subset: 3,541
rated employers: 4,083
all reporting employers: 71,181
recordable injuries (all)

Inventory counts and injury/fatality totals cover all 4,083 ITA establishments; the average TCR excludes zero-rate and corrupt-hours filings. See Methodology → Three Populations.

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

A · 21% B · 16% C · 31% D · 18% F · 14%

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 rated-subset injury rate alone, Mississippi is #4 of 54. Ranked instead by fatalities per rated employer establishment (same 3,541-employer subset), it's #47 of 54, a 43-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 on the same population 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. The published state average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 4.2 injuries per 100 full-time workers uses the 3,541 establishments with a credible rate (zero-rate and corrupt-hours filings stay in the inventory counts above but are excluded from the average, see methodology).

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	City	Industry	Grade	Avg TCR
Cash Saver #23 Carthage	Carthage	Grocery stores	C	2.8
Food Giant #581	Ripley	Grocery stores	C	2.8
Gulfport Dirt Cheap	Gulfport	Department stores, discount	C	2.8
Carpenters Pole and Piling	Wiggins	Poles, round wood, cutting a	C	2.8
Keystone Automotive Jackson	Jackson	Automotive parts, new, merch	D	2.8
Hollywood Casino Gulf Coast	Bay St. Louis	Stand alone casinos (except	C	2.8
STR0673	Gautier	Department stores except dis	C	2.8
LAUREL_1369948	Laurel	Mail and Parcel Delivery	B	2.8
Bedford Care Center of Hattiesburg	Hattiesburg	Skilled nursing facilities	A	2.8
SXP Hernando	Hernando	Pipe (e.g., heavy riveted, l	C	2.8
DSC Poplarville	Poplarville	Dredging machinery manufactu	C	2.8
1808-00000803-1334	Hattiesburg	Supermarket	C	2.8
Wm 874	Natchez	Warehouse Clubs and Supercen	C	2.8
1074	Grenada	Warehouse Clubs and Supercen	C	2.8
35907 Hilton Garden Inn Hattiesburg Ms	Hattiesburg	Hotels	C	2.8
500437600 - Univ of Southern Mississippi	Hattiesburg	Food Services	C	2.8
Harvest Select Hatchery	Inverness	Catfish production, farm rai	B	2.7
6U - Jackson Division	Flowood	General Line Grocery Merchan	D	2.7
273784-Jackson Ms P&Dc	Jackson	Mail and Parcel Delivery	B	2.7
602 - Meridian	Meridian	-	C	2.7
Mississippi State Penitentriary	Parchman	Home nursing services, priva	B	2.7
Ernest Manning Construction	Pascagoula	Excavating, earthmoving, or	C	2.7
Muller Copper Line Sets	Fulton	Nonferrous metal (except alu	C	2.7
Plum Creek Environmental Technologies, LLC.	West Point	Containers, light gauge meta	C	2.7
Waters International Trucks Inc.	Meridian	Tractors, highway, merchant	D	2.7
AHS Construction Co., LLC	New Albany	Excavating, earthmoving, or	C	2.7
Rutland Lumber Yard	Collins	Sawmills	C	2.7
Sequel Electrical Supply LLC	Meridian	Electrical supply stores	B	2.7
Roses Express 1914	Columbus	All Other General Merchandis	B	2.7
Treasure Bay Casino	Biloxi	Casino hotels	C	2.7
Darling Ingredients, Jackson MS	Byram	Fats, animal, rendering	C	2.7
Metal Coaters of Mississippi	Jackson	Coating metals and metal pro	C	2.7
Master Bilt Products	New Albany	Coolers, refrigeration, manu	C	2.7
Wm 2720	Madison	Warehouse Clubs and Supercen	B	2.7
20946 Gulfport	Gulfport	Bus operation, school and em	B	2.7
Cross Technologies Inc Nissan Canton	Canton	Machinery and equipment, lar	C	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
122	Southaven	-	A	2.7
Madison Home Place	Madison	Assisted-living facilities w	B	2.7
6711	Brookhaven	General Auto Repair (include	D	2.7
JJ Ferguson Sand & Gravel	Greenwood	Construction management, hig	C	2.7
Brislin, Inc.	Columbus	Heating, ventilation and air	C	2.7
Evergreen Lumber & Truss	Purvis	Cants, resawed (lumber), man	C	2.7
Delta Furniture Manufacturing	Pontotoc	Upholstered furniture, house	C	2.7
047 TA Meridian	Meridian	Truck stops	B	2.7
2662-3010	Canton	School and Employee Bus Tran	B	2.7
Ergon Refining & Marketing Corporate	Flowood	Centralized administrative o	F	2.7
Puckett Machinery Company - Hattiesburg	Hattiesburg	Construction machinery and e	D	2.7
BT Gulfport	Gulfport	Heating, ventilation and air	C	2.7

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Nationwide states with similar injury rates or employer scale

Two PlainSafetyScore-derived peer sets for Mississippi: nearest states and territories by rated-subset average Total Case Rate and by OSHA-reporting employer inventory. These are cross-state neighborhoods, not the employer list above.

Similar average TCR

Nearest states by rated-subset Total Case Rate (4.2 here).

Arkansas TCR 4.4 Texas TCR 4.4 Ohio TCR 4.4 North Carolina TCR 4.4

Similar employer inventory

Nearest states by reporting employer count (4,083 here).

Utah 3,861 emp. Nebraska 3,594 emp. Nevada 4,574 emp. Kansas 5,228 emp.

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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.