TCR, interpreted
Far above average
4.2 avg TCR
State profile · OSHA ITA
Mississippi workplace safety
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).
- 4,083
- Employers
- 4.2
- Avg TCR (rated)
- 71,181
- Injuries (all)
- 76
- Fatalities (all)
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
Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more states. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
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.
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 TCRMississippi'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
Page 49 of 82| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Laurel feed mill | Laurel | - | B | 2.2 |
| Byrd Lumber Co., Inc. | Fernwood | Beams, wood, made from logs | B | 2.2 |
| Robertson Produce of Mississippi LLC | Clinton | Berries, fresh, merchant who | C | 2.2 |
| 275110-Mer-North Sta | Meridian | Mail and Parcel Delivery | A | 2.2 |
| Family Medical Group of Union | Union | MDs' (medical doctors, excep | B | 2.2 |
| Southern Hens, Inc. CP | Moselle | Poultry (e.g., canned, cooke | B | 2.2 |
| Big Lots Store #1873 Dilberville, MS | Dilberville | Retail Other | B | 2.2 |
| Carthage Senior Care | Carthage | Skilled nursing facilities | A | 2.2 |
| General Office Substation / Trans. Substation Construction | Gulfport | Transmission of electric pow | D | 2.2 |
| Sanderson Farms Laurel Feed Mill | Laurel | Poultry Feed Mill | B | 2.2 |
| Zeon Chemicals L.P.-Mississippi | Hattiesburg | Elastomers, synthetic rubber | B | 2.2 |
| Draka Elevator Products, Inc. Walnut | Walnut | Cable, nonferrous, insulated | B | 2.2 |
| STR0675 | Columbus | Department stores except dis | B | 2.2 |
| Smiths Medical - Olive Branch | Olive Branch | Private warehousing and stor | A | 2.2 |
| CBOC Meridian | Meridian | MDs' (medical doctors), ment | B | 2.2 |
| 536 Southaven, Ms | Southaven | Family Clothing Stores | B | 2.2 |
| Waveland Dirt Cheap | Waveland | Department stores, discount | B | 2.2 |
| 6072 | New Albany | Refrigerated Warehousing and | A | 2.2 |
| Westlake Global Compounds , Madison | Madison | Plastics resins compounding | B | 2.1 |
| Niteo Products LLC Plant | Hernando | Transmission fluids, synthet | B | 2.1 |
| JI&M Rockett | Flowood | Metal scrap and waste mercha | C | 2.1 |
| 0537 Lowe S of Hattiesburg Ms | Hattiesburg | Homecenter | B | 2.1 |
| Knight Refrigerated Memphis | Olive Branch | General freight trucking, lo | A | 2.1 |
| North Jackson_1375449 | Jackson | Mail and Parcel Delivery | A | 2.1 |
| 2603 | Byhalia | GENERAL WAREHOUSING AND STOR | A | 2.1 |
| Cleveland Network | Cleveland | Distribution of electric pow | D | 2.1 |
| F. L. Crane & Sons Boyle | Boyle | Drywall contractors | B | 2.1 |
| 8591 | Greenville | - | B | 2.1 |
| Paccar Engine Company | Columbus | Diesel and semidiesel engine | B | 2.1 |
| Manufacturing | Kosciusko | Manila folders, die-cut, mad | B | 2.1 |
| Yokohama Tire Manufacturing Mississippi, LLC | West Point | Motor vehicle tires manufact | B | 2.1 |
| Kenworth of Mississippi, Inc | Richland | Motor vehicle merchant whole | C | 2.1 |
| Olive Branch Parts Distribution Center | Olive Branch | General Warehousing and Stor | A | 2.1 |
| Brandon Nursing and Rehabiltation Center LLC | Brandon | Convalescent homes or conval | A | 2.1 |
| Cornerstone Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center | Corinth | Skilled nursing facilities | A | 2.1 |
| Coast Electric Power Association | Kiln | Electrical Distribution | D | 2.1 |
| Fletcher Construction Co., Inc. | Pascagoula | Addition, alteration and ren | B | 2.1 |
| Cain, Inc. | Kosciusko | Dirt moving for construction | B | 2.1 |
| Master-Bilt | New Albany | Refrigeration equipment, ind | B | 2.1 |
| Hitachi Energy USA, inc. Crystal Springs | Crystal Springs | Power transformers, electric | B | 2.1 |
| Parish Tractor Company, LLC | Hattiesburg | Tractors, industrial, mercha | C | 2.1 |
| 8027204 Nike Adapt | Byhalia | Staffing | C | 2.1 |
| Hampton/Home 2 Suites Hattiesburg | Hattiesburg | Traveler Accomdations | B | 2.1 |
| Southaven | Southaven | Sewing machines, household-t | C | 2.1 |
| Styline Logistics Mississippi | Tupelo | General freight trucking, lo | A | 2.1 |
| Weir Esco Newton | Newton | Cores, sand foundry, manufac | B | 2.1 |
| Enhanced Manufacturing Solutions, LLC | Brookhaven | Cars, mining, manufacturing | B | 2.1 |
| Ashley Furniture Ecru MS | Ecru | Furniture, household-type, u | B | 2.1 |
| Munn Enterprises, Inc | Hattiesburg | Letters for signs manufactur | B | 2.1 |
| 2369 Lowe S of W. Jackson Ms | Jackson | Homecenter | B | 2.1 |
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).
Similar employer inventory
Nearest states by reporting employer count (4,083 here).
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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainSafetyScore
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.