Chicken hatcheries · Georgia

Fieldale Farms - Lavonia Hatchery

Lavonia, GA · ~42 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fieldale Farms - Lavonia Hatchery runs at 152% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Chicken hatcheries workplace, earning a grade D.

Fieldale Farms - Lavonia Hatchery: 6.8 TCR = 152% of Chicken hatcheries BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fieldale Farms - Lavonia Hatchery safety composite

Fieldale Farms - Lavonia Hatchery scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 17%), 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).

F

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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

−6.5

2019→2024

Fieldale Farms - Lavonia Hatchery injury rate improved

Fieldale Farms - Lavonia Hatchery's TCR fell 6.5 from 10.5 in 2019 to 4.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 10.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.58× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=10.5 · 2020=5.3 · 2021=9.0 · 2022=10.3 · 2023=2.0 · 2024=4.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 112340 · Lavonia, GA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.8 · 152% of ind

  • DART 4.0 DART
  • RANK #20/26
  • PHOTO Sallisaw Hatchery
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~42 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sallisaw Hatchery (0.1 TCR gap)

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Fieldale Farms - Lavonia Hatchery in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fieldale Farms - Lavonia Hatchery averages 6.8 TCR (152% of the Chicken hatcheries BLS benchmark).

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

Fieldale Farms - Lavonia Hatchery TCR series: 2019=10.5 · 2020=5.3 · 2021=9 · 2022=10.3 · 2023=2 · 2024=4 · BLS 4.5

Where Fieldale Farms - Lavonia Hatchery falls in its industry

197 Chicken hatcheries establishments

Safer than 21% 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 #20 safest of 26 Chicken hatcheries employers in Georgia.

Fieldale Farms - Lavonia Hatchery (42 employees, TCR 6.8) 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 Fieldale Farms - Lavonia Hatchery
Fieldale Farms - Lavonia Hatchery (42 employees, TCR 6.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Fieldale Farms - Lavonia Hatchery has more employees than the Chicken hatcheries median and a higher 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 4.0 4.0 2 0 0
2023 2.0 0.0 1 0 0
2022 10.3 7.8 4 0 0
2021 9.0 6.0 3 0 0
2020 5.3 0.0 2 0 0
2019 10.5 5.2 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112340 · GA · Lavonia

197 Chicken hatcheries employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 14,941 rated employers in Georgia with headcount on file · 36 employers in Lavonia, 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 Sallisaw Hatchery 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR George's Springdale Hatchery 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Enterprise Hatchery 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Harwood Hatchery 7.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Atlas Manufacturing, Inc. 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fieldale Farms - Pullet/Breeder Facility 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Unlimited Contract Services - Bushnell, FL 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Plant McIntosh (Combine Cycle) 42 FTE
CITY-NEAR 9711 566 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Mary's Sacred Heart Hospital-SMHCS-GA 359 FTE
CITY-NEAR Carry-On Lavonia 329 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sacred Heart 323 FTE
NAT-TCR Quality Ag, Inc. 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Holiday Inn Alexandria 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Inland Tarp Liner- Moses Lake 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Port Newark Auto Terminal 6.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lubbock,TX - 409 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE W&W|AFCO Steel Nash 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE IPM, Inc. 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Best Mechanical 42 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, 2019. 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.