Chickens, processing, fresh, frozen, canned, or cooked (except baby and pet food) · Mississippi

DG Foods Hazelhurst

Name: DG Foods Hazelhurst Workplace Safety Data
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Hazlehurst, MS · ~373 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 4.0
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

DG Foods Hazelhurst runs at 120% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Chickens, processing, fresh, frozen, canned, or cooked (except baby and pet food) workplace, earning a grade C.

DG Foods Hazelhurst: 4.0 TCR = 120% of Chickens, processing, fresh, frozen, canned, or cooked (except baby and pet food) BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

DG Foods Hazelhurst safety composite

DG Foods Hazelhurst scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 39%), 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).

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 3.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers
DART rate: D 2 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers
Fatalities: D 0

Safer than 54% 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%).

DG Foods Hazelhurst held a steady TCR band

DG Foods Hazelhurst's TCR held near 0.1 from 3.9 in 2016 to 4.0 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0.51× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.9 · 2017=4.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311615 · Hazlehurst, MS ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 4.0 · 120% of ind

DART 2.0 DART
RANK #25/41
PHOTO Dorada Foods
BOOK 2y book
INJ 26 inj
SIZE ~373 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Dorada Foods (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows DG Foods Hazelhurst averages 4.0 TCR (120% of the Chickens, processing, fresh, frozen, canned, or cooked (except baby and pet food) BLS benchmark).

DG Foods Hazelhurst TCR series: 2016=3.9 · 2017=4 · BLS 3.3

Where DG Foods Hazelhurst falls in its industry

509 Chickens, processing, fresh, f establishments

Safer than 44% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Mississippi alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #25 safest of 41 Chickens, processing, fresh, f employers in Mississippi.

DG Foods Hazelhurst (373 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 employees and a TCR of 3.5

DG Foods Hazelhurst has fewer employees than the Chickens, processing, fresh, frozen, can median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2017	4.0	2.0	13	1	0
2016	3.9	1.2	13	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311615 · MS · Hazlehurst

509 Chickens, processing, fresh, frozen, canned, or cooked (except baby and pet food) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,083 rated employers in Mississippi with headcount on file · 16 employers in Hazlehurst, MS · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Dorada Foods	PONCA CITY, OK	4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Culver Duck Farms, Inc.	MIDDLEBURY, IN	4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Johns Soules Foods Valley Alabama	VALLEY, AL	4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Harrison Poultry Inc	BETHLEHEM, GA	3.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE	WM 2720	MADISON	373 FTE
STATE-SIZE	992	NAS MERIDIAN	373 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Keytronic (MS)	CORINTH	374 FTE
STATE-SIZE	WM 1025	MCCOMB	374 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Sanderson Farms Hazlehurst Processing	Hazlehurst	603 FTE
CITY-NEAR	DG Foods	Hazlehurst	326 FTE
CITY-NEAR	DG Foods, LLC Hazlehurst	Hazlehurst	323 FTE
CITY-NEAR	WM 954	Hazlehurst	242 FTE
NAT-TCR	Milwaukee Ale House	Milwaukee, WI	4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	The Ashton Company	Tucson, AZ	4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	Houston (Txcav)	Houston, TX	4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	Hilton Head (Schil)	Hilton Head, SC	4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Ohl USA, Inc. -Texas Location	College Point, NY	373 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Oshkosh (Wiosh)	Oshkosh, WI	373 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Miami South (Flmis)	Miami, FL	373 FTE
NAT-SIZE	DTW - Airport United Airlines Offices	Detroit, MI	373 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: 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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