Poultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing · Maryland
Amick Farms, LLC MD Processing Plant
Hurlock, MD · ~1,693 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- F
- Failing Safety Record
- 7.2
- Avg TCR
- 3.3
- Industry avg
- 0
- Fatalities
The verdict
Amick Farms, LLC MD Processing Plant runs at 218% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Poultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing workplace, earning a grade F.
- F
- Failing Safety Record
- 7.2
- avg TCR · per 100 workers
- 3.3
- industry benchmark (BLS)
- 587
- recordable injuries tracked
Grade compares Amick Farms, LLC MD Processing Plant's OSHA Total Case Rate of 7.2 to the Poultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing BLS benchmark of 3.3 (218% of benchmark) across 5 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). <a href="/methodology">See methodology</a> for reporting-limitation caveats.
Injury rate over time
Amick Farms, LLC MD Processing Plant's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 3.3 industry benchmark.
Where Amick Farms, LLC MD Processing Plant falls in its industry
525 Poultry slaughtering, dressing establishmentsSafer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.
Narrower to Maryland alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 4 Poultry slaughtering, dressing employers in Maryland.
Trend analysis for Amick Farms, LLC MD Processing Plant
Between 2020 and 2024, Amick Farms, LLC MD Processing Plant's Total Case Rate improved from 8.9 to 5.0 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 44% decrease across 4 years of OSHA reporting.
The safest year on record was 2024, at a TCR of 5.0, while 2021 saw the highest rate, at 9.0, a spread of 4.0 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a comparatively narrow spread, suggesting a fairly consistent safety record across the 5 years with a usable rate on file, rather than one outlier year skewing the multi-year average.
Summed across those 5 reporting years, Amick Farms, LLC MD Processing Plant recorded 587 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 5-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.
Verify This Employer with OSHA
The 587 injuries, 16 illnesses shown on this page for Amick Farms, LLC MD Processing Plant are sourced from its own 5 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.
Verify on OSHA Establishment SearchSource: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 311615 - Poultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing.
DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2024)
What is the DART rate formula?
DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.
59 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 3,477,259 hours worked = 3.39 DART
Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping
Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State
| Benchmark | TCR | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Amick Farms, LLC MD Processing Plant (this establishment) | 7.21 | OSHA ITA Form 300A, 5-year avg |
| Chickens, processing, fresh, frozen, canned, or cooked (except baby and pet food) industry avg | 3.30 | BLS IIF, NAICS 311615 |
| Maryland state avg (all industries) | 4.70 | OSHA ITA, state-level rollup |
Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program
Reportable Incident Timeline
Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Amick Farms, LLC MD Processing Plant to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.
- 2024: 87 reportable incidents · 75 injuries, 12 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2023: 111 reportable incidents · 107 injuries, 4 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2022: 106 reportable incidents · 106 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2021: 149 reportable incidents · 149 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2020: 150 reportable incidents · 150 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records
Year-by-Year Safety Data
| Year | TCR | DART | Injuries | Illnesses | Fatalities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5.0 | 3.4 | 75 | 12 | 0 |
| 2023 | 6.4 | 5.6 | 107 | 4 | 0 |
| 2022 | 6.6 | 6.3 | 106 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 9.0 | 8.5 | 149 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 8.9 | 8.0 | 150 | 0 | 0 |
What this grade means for you
Use this grade as a relative read on Amick Farms, LLC MD Processing Plant's reported OSHA injury record versus its Poultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing peers, not a verdict on whether any single site is safe today.
- At 218% of the Poultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing benchmark, Amick Farms, LLC MD Processing Plant reports more injuries than typical peers, ask specifically how the employer is reducing them. Know your rights
- Judge this record against the wider Poultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
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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.