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 52 of 82| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Univ of Mississippi | Grenada | - | A | 1.9 |
| Star - Jackson | Jackson | HVAC Service | B | 1.9 |
| FGG Mississippi | Crystal Springs | - | B | 1.9 |
| Metal Impact South | New Albany | Primary aluminum production | B | 1.9 |
| Border States - Meridian, MS Main Branch | Meridian | Construction materials, elec | C | 1.9 |
| Gipson Steel, Inc. | Meridian | Fabricated structural metal | B | 1.9 |
| Cotton Plant Transport, LLC | New Albany | Motor freight carrier, gener | A | 1.9 |
| Unified Brands | Vicksburg | Showcases, refrigerated, man | B | 1.9 |
| Upchurch Services, LLC | Horn Lake | Heating, ventilation and air | B | 1.9 |
| 262 Ridgeland MS | Ridgeland | Commercial Bakeries | B | 1.9 |
| 6848-68480002-000008 | Olive Branch | Assisted Living Facilities w | B | 1.9 |
| Hederman Brothers | Madison | Offset printing (except book | B | 1.9 |
| Regency Hospital Company of Meridian, LLC | Meridian | Hospitals, specialty (except | B | 1.9 |
| Magnolia Reg Health Ctr | Corinth | - | B | 1.9 |
| Sunray Companies, LLC | Madison | Holding companies, bank (exc | F | 1.9 |
| Plymouth Tube Company | Eupora | Tube (e.g., heavy riveted, l | B | 1.9 |
| Clean Harbors Industrial Services Inc 84YLC | Pascagoula | - | B | 1.9 |
| Fountain Construction / Attention | Jackson | Addition, alteration and ren | B | 1.9 |
| Pascagoula 399 | Pascagoula | Cable broadcasting networks | F | 1.9 |
| Lehman Roberts Co I-269 | Byhalia | Asphalt Paving/ Manufacturin | B | 1.9 |
| Laurel Office | Laurel | Electric Power Distribution | D | 1.9 |
| Tupelo, MS - 3406 W. Main St | Tupelo | - | A | 1.9 |
| Xanitos EVS at Baptist North Misissippi | Oxford | Janitorial | A | 1.9 |
| S0478 Bolivar Physicians Practices | Cleveland | General Medical and Surgical | A | 1.9 |
| Vitalant MS Tupelo United | Tupelo | Blood banking | B | 1.9 |
| PSSI - 0832 Tyson Foods Inc. - Vicksburg | Vicksburg | Janitorial Services | A | 1.9 |
| Southwest Distributors, Inc. | Summit | Beverages, alcoholic (except | C | 1.9 |
| Sodexo at University of Mississippi-Fac | University | Building Cleaning/Maintenanc | A | 1.9 |
| Magnolia Container | Magnolia | Boxes, corrugated and solid | B | 1.9 |
| Merit Health Biloxi | Biloxi | - | A | 1.9 |
| 44151l - Tupelo | Tupelo | - | C | 1.9 |
| Byhalia - 442 E. Stonewall Rd | Byhalia | General Warehousing and Stor | A | 1.9 |
| Shippers Express Jackson MS | Jackson | General Freight Trucking Lo | A | 1.9 |
| #745 Piggly Wiggly | Taylorsville | - | B | 1.9 |
| John Fayard Moving & Warehousing, LLC | Gulfport | General freight trucking, lo | A | 1.9 |
| Team Waste Hauling | Byhalia | Garbage hauling, local | B | 1.9 |
| KPC Promise Hospital of Vicksburg | Vicksburg | Extended care hospitals (exc | B | 1.9 |
| HP1 | Picayune | Custom compounding (i.e., bl | B | 1.9 |
| Olive Branch, MS Distribution Center | Olive Branch | Household-type appliances (e | C | 1.9 |
| CenterPoint Energy - Gulfport | Gulfport | Natural Gas Distribution | D | 1.9 |
| Sodexo at Jsu Heritage Dining | Jackson | Food Service Contractors | B | 1.9 |
| Upchurch Industrial, LLC | Horn Lake | Pipe fitting contractors | B | 1.9 |
| Plumrose, USA | Booneville | Bacon, slab and sliced, made | B | 1.9 |
| 3505 Bailey Lumber Ocean Springs | Ocean Srpings | Building materials supply de | B | 1.9 |
| Mississippi Spring | Tupelo | Beds, sleep-system ensembles | B | 1.9 |
| International Paper Houston Container | Houston | Boxes, corrugated and solid | B | 1.9 |
| St. Catherines Village | Madison | Food Service Contractors | B | 1.9 |
| Nothing Bundt Cakes - Jackson-Flowood | Flowood | Bakeries with baking from fl | B | 1.9 |
| View, Inc. | Olive Branch | Insulating glass, sealed uni | B | 1.9 |
| United Piping, Inc. | Ridgeland | Fire sprinkler system instal | B | 1.9 |
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.