Poultry slaughtering and processing · Virginia

Harrisonburg Processing

Harrisonburg, VA · ~4,130 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Harrisonburg Processing runs at 97% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Poultry slaughtering and processing workplace, earning a grade C.

Harrisonburg Processing: 3.2 TCR = 97% of Poultry slaughtering and processing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Harrisonburg Processing safety composite

Harrisonburg Processing scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 6%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 6% 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

Harrisonburg Processing: 2.5 → 3.0 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 3.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.7× in 2024

Harrisonburg Processing's TCR rose 0.5 from 2.5 in 2021 to 3.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 3.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.7× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311615 · Harrisonburg, VA AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade C · TCR 3.2 · 97% of ind

  • DART 2.2 DART
  • RANK #12/19
  • PHOTO Pilgrims Prepared Fo…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 83 inj
  • SIZE ~4,130 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pilgrims Prepared Foods (0.0 TCR gap)

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Harrisonburg Processing in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Harrisonburg Processing averages 3.2 TCR (97% of the Poultry slaughtering and processing BLS benchmark).

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

Harrisonburg Processing TCR series: 2021=2.5 · 2022=3.5 · 2023=3.8 · 2024=3 · BLS 3.3

Where Harrisonburg Processing falls in its industry

509 Poultry slaughtering and proce establishments

Safer than 53% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 19 Poultry slaughtering and proce employers in Virginia.

Harrisonburg Processing (4,130 employees, TCR 3.2) 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Harrisonburg Processing
Harrisonburg Processing (4,130 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Harrisonburg Processing has more employees than the Poultry slaughtering and processing 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
2024 3.0 2.2 22 1 1
2023 3.8 2.8 26 3 0
2022 3.5 2.9 21 3 0
2021 2.5 1.6 14 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311615 · VA · Harrisonburg

509 Poultry slaughtering and processing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 171 employers in Harrisonburg, VA · 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 Pilgrims Prepared Foods 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sanderson Farms Palestine Processing 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pilgrims Moorefield Feed Mill 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR George's Springdale Processing Plant 3.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE 6925-IAD 3,975 FTE
STATE-SIZE IAD - Airport United Airlines Offices 3,884 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hii - Technical Solutions Division 4,475 FTE
STATE-SIZE M.C. Dean, Inc 4,529 FTE
CITY-NEAR James Madison University 6,991 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sentara Rockingham Memorial Hospital 2,232 FTE
CITY-NEAR Harrisonburg North Facility 953 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lakeside Book Company - Harrisonburg North 932 FTE
NAT-TCR Castle Rock Farming LLC 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Tolin Mechanical Systems Company 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Administration Building 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR United Refrigeration, Inc. (#400) 3.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mosaic Medical Center- St. Joseph 4,130 FTE
NAT-SIZE Methodist Hospital 4,131 FTE
NAT-SIZE Johns Hopkins Health System 4,124 FTE
NAT-SIZE LAZ Parking California, LLC 4,117 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.