Broiler chicken production · Ohio

Gerber Poultry Inc

Kidron, OH · ~498 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Gerber Poultry Inc runs at 42% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Broiler chicken production workplace, earning a grade A.

Gerber Poultry Inc: 1.9 TCR = 42% of Broiler chicken production BLS 4.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gerber Poultry Inc safety composite

Gerber Poultry Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 45%), 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).

D

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 1.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% 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

Gerber Poultry Inc: 1.6 → 2.0 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 2.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.63× in 2024

Gerber Poultry Inc's TCR rose 0.4 from 1.6 in 2016 to 2.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 2.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.63× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 112320 · Kidron, OH AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.9 · 42% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK P52
  • PHOTO 6728-00030023-32
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 68 inj
  • SIZE ~498 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 6728-00030023-32 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Gerber Poultry Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gerber Poultry Inc averages 1.9 TCR (42% of the Broiler chicken production BLS benchmark).

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

Gerber Poultry Inc TCR series: 2016=1.6 · 2017=1.5 · 2018=1.7 · 2020=2.3 · 2021=2.7 · 2023=1.2 · 2024=2 · BLS 4.5

Where Gerber Poultry Inc falls in its industry

50 Broiler chicken production establishments

Safer than 52% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Gerber Poultry Inc (498 employees, TCR 1.9) among 25 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.0 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 26 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 02004006008001,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Gerber Poultry Inc
Gerber Poultry Inc (498 employees, TCR 1.9) among 25 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Gerber Poultry Inc has more employees than the Broiler chicken production median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.0. 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 2.0 1.2 12 0 0
2023 1.2 0.8 7 0 0
2021 2.7 1.1 12 0 0
2020 2.3 2.1 13 0 0
2018 1.7 1.3 8 0 0
2017 1.5 0.9 7 0 0
2016 1.6 0.9 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112320 · OH · Kidron

50 Broiler chicken production employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 6 employers in Kidron, OH · 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 6728-00030023-32 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ashland Breeder and Broiler 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR AR Operation 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6728-00030023-28 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Associated Materials LLC - Central Plant 498 FTE
STATE-SIZE Harry & David 498 FTE
STATE-SIZE kdc/one Columbus 499 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kamco Industries, Inc. West Unity Plant 499 FTE
CITY-NEAR STE Hackney Inc - Kidron, OH 124 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fayette Janitorial LLC- Gerber Kidron 53 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gerber Farm Division 47 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gerber Lumber & Hardware 43 FTE
NAT-TCR Spacecon Specialty Contractors, LLC 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Darling Ingredients Inc. dba/DAR PRO Solutions 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Associated Scaffolding Company Incorporated 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Pelham Plastics Inc. 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE West Middlesex 055 498 FTE
NAT-SIZE Metropolitan Mechanical Contractors 498 FTE
NAT-SIZE Essity Professional Hygiene Barton 498 FTE
NAT-SIZE American Engineering Testing 498 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, 2021, 2020, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.