Poultry Hatcheries · Texas

Harwood Hatchery

Gonzales, TX · ~25 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.2
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Harwood Hatchery runs at 160% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Poultry Hatcheries workplace, earning a grade D.

Harwood Hatchery: 7.2 TCR = 160% of Poultry Hatcheries BLS 4.5 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Harwood Hatchery safety composite

Harwood Hatchery scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 19%), 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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Harwood Hatchery: 0.0 → 7.3 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 24.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.51× in 2024

Harwood Hatchery's TCR rose 7.3 from 0.0 in 2017 to 7.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 24.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.51× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 112340 · Gonzales, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.2 · 160% of ind

  • DART 3.7 DART
  • RANK #12/13
  • PHOTO River Valley Hatchery
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: River Valley Hatchery (0.0 TCR gap)

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Harwood Hatchery in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Harwood Hatchery averages 7.2 TCR (160% of the Poultry Hatcheries BLS benchmark).

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

Harwood Hatchery TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=4 · 2019=0 · 2020=3.9 · 2021=0 · 2022=24.3 · 2023=17.8 · 2024=7.3 · BLS 4.5

Where Harwood Hatchery falls in its industry

197 Poultry Hatcheries establishments

Safer than 19% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 13 Poultry Hatcheries employers in Texas.

Harwood Hatchery (25 employees, TCR 7.2) 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 Harwood Hatchery
Harwood Hatchery (25 employees, TCR 7.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Harwood Hatchery has fewer employees than the Poultry 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 7.3 3.7 1 1 0
2023 17.8 17.8 5 0 0
2022 24.3 24.3 3 3 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 3.9 3.9 0 1 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 4.0 4.0 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112340 · TX · Gonzales

197 Poultry Hatcheries employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 20 employers in Gonzales, TX · 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 River Valley Hatchery 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hatchery 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Enterprise Hatchery 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dexter Hatchery 7.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Village Farms of Monahans 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lubbock Feeders, LLC 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Circle Three Feed Yard, Ltd 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE SEABOARD FOODS LP 501-508 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kitchen Pride Mushroom Farms 231 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 290 204 FTE
CITY-NEAR 290 183 FTE
CITY-NEAR Adams Extract & Spice, LLC 163 FTE
NAT-TCR River Valley Hatchery 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Red Oak Rehab and Care Center & WEL-Home Health Red Oak 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR The Peninsula 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Nashville 037 7.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Oglethorpe Feed Mill 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Robards Feed Mill 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE 150 Oak Street 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Waldron Feed Mill 25 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, 2018, 2017. 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.