State profile · OSHA ITA
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.
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.
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
Page 49 of 82| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Silver Creek Gin Co., LLC | Holly Bluff | Ginning cotton | A | 2.2 |
| Laurel feed mill | Laurel | - | B | 2.2 |
| Carthage Senior Care | Carthage | Skilled nursing facilities | A | 2.2 |
| Big Lots Store #1873 Dilberville, MS | Dilberville | Retail Other | B | 2.2 |
| Southern Hens, Inc. CP | Moselle | Poultry (e.g., canned, cooke | B | 2.2 |
| Sanderson Farms Laurel Feed Mill | Laurel | Poultry Feed Mill | B | 2.2 |
| STR0675 | Columbus | Department stores except dis | B | 2.2 |
| CBOC Meridian | Meridian | MDs' (medical doctors), ment | B | 2.2 |
| General Office Substation / Trans. Substation Construction | Gulfport | Transmission of electric pow | D | 2.2 |
| Draka Elevator Products, Inc. Walnut | Walnut | Cable, nonferrous, insulated | B | 2.2 |
| Zeon Chemicals L.P.-Mississippi | Hattiesburg | Elastomers, synthetic rubber | B | 2.2 |
| Smiths Medical - Olive Branch | Olive Branch | Private warehousing and stor | A | 2.2 |
| Waveland Dirt Cheap | Waveland | Department stores, discount | B | 2.2 |
| 6072 | New Albany | Refrigerated Warehousing and | A | 2.2 |
| 536 Southaven, Ms | Southaven | Family Clothing Stores | B | 2.2 |
| JI&M Rockett | Flowood | Metal scrap and waste mercha | C | 2.1 |
| Knight Refrigerated Memphis | Olive Branch | General freight trucking, lo | A | 2.1 |
| Niteo Products LLC Plant | Hernando | Transmission fluids, synthet | B | 2.1 |
| 0537 Lowe S of Hattiesburg Ms | Hattiesburg | Homecenter | B | 2.1 |
| North Jackson_1375449 | Jackson | Mail and Parcel Delivery | A | 2.1 |
| Westlake Global Compounds , Madison | Madison | Plastics resins compounding | B | 2.1 |
| 2603 | Byhalia | GENERAL WAREHOUSING AND STOR | A | 2.1 |
| F. L. Crane & Sons Boyle | Boyle | Drywall contractors | B | 2.1 |
| Paccar Engine Company | Columbus | Diesel and semidiesel engine | B | 2.1 |
| Cleveland Network | Cleveland | Distribution of electric pow | D | 2.1 |
| 8591 | Greenville | - | B | 2.1 |
| Kenworth of Mississippi, Inc | Richland | Motor vehicle merchant whole | C | 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 |
| Yokohama Tire Manufacturing Mississippi, LLC | West Point | Motor vehicle tires manufact | B | 2.1 |
| Olive Branch Parts Distribution Center | Olive Branch | General Warehousing and Stor | A | 2.1 |
| Manufacturing | Kosciusko | Manila folders, die-cut, mad | B | 2.1 |
| 8027204 Nike Adapt | Byhalia | Staffing | C | 2.1 |
| Parish Tractor Company, LLC | Hattiesburg | Tractors, industrial, mercha | C | 2.1 |
| Hitachi Energy USA, inc. Crystal Springs | Crystal Springs | Power transformers, electric | B | 2.1 |
| Cain, Inc. | Kosciusko | Dirt moving for construction | B | 2.1 |
| Hampton/Home 2 Suites Hattiesburg | Hattiesburg | Traveler Accomdations | B | 2.1 |
| Master-Bilt | New Albany | Refrigeration equipment, ind | B | 2.1 |
| Coast Electric Power Association | Kiln | Electrical Distribution | D | 2.1 |
| Fletcher Construction Co., Inc. | Pascagoula | Addition, alteration and ren | B | 2.1 |
| Styline Logistics Mississippi | Tupelo | General freight trucking, lo | A | 2.1 |
| Southaven | Southaven | Sewing machines, household-t | C | 2.1 |
| Merit Health Biloxi - EVS | Biloxi | - | A | 2.1 |
| Ashley Furniture Ecru MS | Ecru | Furniture, household-type, u | B | 2.1 |
| 2369 Lowe S of W. Jackson Ms | Jackson | Homecenter | B | 2.1 |
| Weir Esco Newton | Newton | Cores, sand foundry, manufac | B | 2.1 |
| Enhanced Manufacturing Solutions, LLC | Brookhaven | Cars, mining, manufacturing | B | 2.1 |
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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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.
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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.