Chicken hatcheries · Alabama

Fairknoll Hatchery

Anniston, AL · ~46 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fairknoll Hatchery runs at 38% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Chicken hatcheries workplace, earning a grade A.

Fairknoll Hatchery: 1.7 TCR = 38% of Chicken hatcheries BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fairknoll Hatchery safety composite

Fairknoll Hatchery scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 84% 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

73/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% 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

−1.6

2022→2024

Fairknoll Hatchery injury rate improved

Fairknoll Hatchery's TCR fell 1.6 from 3.4 in 2022 to 1.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 3.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=3.4 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=1.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 112340 · Anniston, AL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.7 · 38% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/23
  • PHOTO GGP Hatchery (Elkmont)
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~46 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: GGP Hatchery (Elkmont) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Fairknoll Hatchery in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fairknoll Hatchery averages 1.7 TCR (38% of the Chicken hatcheries BLS benchmark).

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

Fairknoll Hatchery TCR series: 2022=3.4 · 2023=0 · 2024=1.8 · BLS 4.5

Where Fairknoll Hatchery falls in its industry

197 Chicken hatcheries establishments

Safer than 84% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 23 Chicken hatcheries employers in Alabama.

Fairknoll Hatchery (46 employees, TCR 1.7) 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 Fairknoll Hatchery
Fairknoll Hatchery (46 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Fairknoll 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 1.8 0.0 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 3.4 3.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112340 · AL · Anniston

197 Chicken hatcheries employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 101 employers in Anniston, AL · 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 GGP Hatchery (Elkmont) 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR CAL-MAINE MENDENHALL HATCHERY 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Case Farms Goldsboro Hatchery 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Peco Farms Sebastopol Hatchery 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Elkmont Vet Lab 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE Alabama Stone Co 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hillcrest 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eastern Division Gadsden Office 46 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tyler Union 432 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tyler Union Anniston 420 FTE
CITY-NEAR International Automotive Components 346 FTE
CITY-NEAR International Automotive Components Anniston 344 FTE
NAT-TCR Brightwater Homes, LLC 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Ll Glenn Plaza Loop LLC 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Bonland Industries, Inc 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 013-ANTONITO 1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE King Kullen #14 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fechtel Beverage & Sales, Inc. 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Farm King Macomb 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alliedbean Demolition 46 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. 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.