Egg hatcheries, poultry · Iowa

Hoover's Hatchery

Rudd, IA · ~114 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hoover's Hatchery runs at 64% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Egg hatcheries, poultry workplace, earning a grade B.

Hoover's Hatchery: 2.9 TCR = 64% of Egg hatcheries, poultry BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hoover's Hatchery safety composite

Hoover's Hatchery scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 68% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 49%), 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

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% 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

−0.6

2020→2024

Hoover's Hatchery injury rate improved

Hoover's Hatchery's TCR fell 0.6 from 2.6 in 2020 to 2.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 6.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.35× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=2.6 · 2021=1.3 · 2022=6.4 · 2023=2.0 · 2024=2.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 112340 · Rudd, IA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.9 · 64% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK P68
  • PHOTO Sanderson Farms Hazl…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~114 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sanderson Farms Hazlehurst Production (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hoover's Hatchery in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hoover's Hatchery averages 2.9 TCR (64% of the Egg hatcheries, poultry BLS benchmark).

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

Hoover's Hatchery TCR series: 2020=2.6 · 2021=1.3 · 2022=6.4 · 2023=2 · 2024=2 · BLS 4.5

Where Hoover's Hatchery falls in its industry

197 Egg hatcheries, poultry establishments

Safer than 68% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Hoover's Hatchery (114 employees, TCR 2.9) 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 050100150 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Hoover's Hatchery
Hoover's Hatchery (114 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Hoover's Hatchery has more employees than the Egg hatcheries, poultry 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 2.0 1.0 2 0 0
2023 2.0 1.0 2 0 0
2022 6.4 5.1 5 0 0
2021 1.3 1.3 0 1 0
2020 2.6 2.6 1 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112340 · IA · Rudd

197 Egg hatcheries, poultry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 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 Sanderson Farms Hazlehurst Production 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hatchery 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sanderson Farms Adel Hatchery 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hatchery (Talladega) 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE 2162-Grinnell, IA-FND (Monsanto Co.) 114 FTE
STATE-SIZE IFCO Wever IA - BIS 114 FTE
STATE-SIZE IA031 Dubuque Container 114 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fres-co System USA, Inc 114 FTE
NAT-TCR CCP Newco, LLC 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 3222 - Cambridge Central Square 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Heartland Express Carlisle 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 2169 - Kannapolis 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Laux Arnold Inc 114 FTE
NAT-SIZE Strider Construction Co 114 FTE
NAT-SIZE RL Hudson and Company 114 FTE
NAT-SIZE Parkwest Casino Lodi 114 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. 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.