Chicken hatcheries · Georgia

Chick Hatchery

Dalton, GA · ~58 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Chick Hatchery runs at 65% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Chicken hatcheries workplace, earning a grade B.

Chick Hatchery: 2.9 TCR = 65% of Chicken hatcheries BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chick Hatchery safety composite

Chick Hatchery scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

C

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

TCR Δ

−3.6

2020→2024

Chick Hatchery injury rate improved

Chick Hatchery's TCR fell 3.6 from 3.6 in 2020 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 7.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=3.6 · 2021=1.9 · 2022=7.4 · 2023=1.8 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 112340 · Dalton, GA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.9 · 65% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #9/26
  • PHOTO Sanderson Farms Adel…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~58 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sanderson Farms Adel Hatchery (0.0 TCR gap)

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Chick Hatchery in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Chick Hatchery averages 2.9 TCR (65% of the Chicken hatcheries BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Chick Hatchery TCR series: 2020=3.6 · 2021=1.9 · 2022=7.4 · 2023=1.8 · 2024=0 · BLS 4.5

Where Chick Hatchery falls in its industry

197 Chicken hatcheries establishments

Safer than 66% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Georgia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 26 Chicken hatcheries employers in Georgia.

Chick Hatchery (58 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 3.9 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 020406080100120 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Chick Hatchery
Chick Hatchery (58 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Chick Hatchery has more employees than the Chicken hatcheries median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 1.8 0.0 1 0 0
2022 7.4 5.5 4 0 0
2021 1.9 1.9 1 0 0
2020 3.6 1.8 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112340 · GA · Dalton

197 Chicken hatcheries employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 14,941 rated employers in Georgia with headcount on file · 292 employers in Dalton, GA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Sanderson Farms Adel Hatchery 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hatchery 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hoover's Hatchery 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sanderson Farms Hazlehurst Production 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Valdosta Operating/Fleet - 200 Miller Street Valdosta 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southern Rivers Energy an Electric Membership Corporation, Inc. 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gainesville District Jackson EMC 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rockdale Project 58 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hamilton Medical Center 1,606 FTE
CITY-NEAR Plant 97 1,244 FTE
CITY-NEAR SD 1,224 FTE
CITY-NEAR USA Dalton GA Antioch 1,077 FTE
NAT-TCR Store 0696 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Vail 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 0133 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 0012 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Outrigger Sales 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Helix Linear Technologies, Inc. 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Windsor Resort 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Moyer and Son, Inc. 58 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.