Poultry (e.g., canned, cooked, fresh, frozen) processing · Delaware

Eastern Shore Poultry

Georgetown, DE · ~293 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Eastern Shore Poultry runs at 42% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Poultry (e.g., canned, cooked, fresh, frozen) processing workplace, earning a grade A.

Eastern Shore Poultry: 1.4 TCR = 42% of Poultry (e.g., canned, cooked, fresh, frozen) processing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Eastern Shore Poultry safety composite

Eastern Shore Poultry scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 90% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 44%), 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)
A 1.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Eastern Shore Poultry: 1.0 → 1.7 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 1.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.24× in 2017

Eastern Shore Poultry's TCR rose 0.7 from 1.0 in 2016 to 1.7 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 1.24× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311615 · Georgetown, DE AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.4 · 42% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #1/8
  • PHOTO Farbest Foods Huntin…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~293 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Farbest Foods Huntingburg (0.0 TCR gap)

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Eastern Shore Poultry in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Eastern Shore Poultry averages 1.4 TCR (42% of the Poultry (e.g., canned, cooked, fresh, frozen) processing BLS benchmark).

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

Eastern Shore Poultry TCR series: 2016=1 · 2017=1.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Eastern Shore Poultry falls in its industry

509 Poultry (e.g., canned, cooked, establishments

Safer than 90% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Delaware alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 8 Poultry (e.g., canned, cooked, employers in Delaware.

Eastern Shore Poultry (293 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 05001,0001,5002,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Eastern Shore Poultry
Eastern Shore Poultry (293 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Eastern Shore Poultry has fewer employees than the Poultry (e.g., canned, cooked, fresh, fr median and a lower 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 1.7 1.7 5 0 0
2016 1.0 1.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311615 · DE · Georgetown

509 Poultry (e.g., canned, cooked, fresh, frozen) processing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,487 rated employers in Delaware with headcount on file · 36 employers in Georgetown, DE · 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 Farbest Foods Huntingburg 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Atkins, P-31877 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pilgrims Moorefield PF 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 3601 Runge St 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE DEMIL - HARRINGTON 293 FTE
STATE-SIZE AstraZeneca Newark Facility 294 FTE
STATE-SIZE TA Instruments- New Castle 294 FTE
STATE-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - DGI3 291 FTE
CITY-NEAR Georgetown Plant 1,202 FTE
CITY-NEAR 8027613-MOUNTAIRE-DE 398 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2791 277 FTE
CITY-NEAR 8027613 MOUNTAIRE DE 265 FTE
NAT-TCR HBSHSENV02 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Sales - Section 22 - Alpharetta, GA 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Norwalk (GCR) 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR JFSNA at Sabic Burkville 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE FSC 293 FTE
NAT-SIZE Caradon 293 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ozarks Community Hospital 293 FTE
NAT-SIZE RPM Wood Finishes Group, INC. 293 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.