Chicken hatcheries · Alabama

Koch Foods of Chattanooga Hatchery

Henagar, AL · ~60 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Koch Foods of Chattanooga Hatchery runs at 15% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Chicken hatcheries workplace, earning a grade A.

Koch Foods of Chattanooga Hatchery: 0.7 TCR = 15% of Chicken hatcheries BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Koch Foods of Chattanooga Hatchery safety composite

Koch Foods of Chattanooga Hatchery scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 95% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 41%), 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

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 95% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% 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

Koch Foods of Chattanooga Hatchery: 0.0 → 2.1 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 2.1 TCR · DART/TCR 2.99× in 2021

Koch Foods of Chattanooga Hatchery's TCR rose 2.1 from 0.0 in 2019 to 2.1 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 2.99× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 112340 · Henagar, AL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.7 · 15% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #2/23
  • PHOTO Case Farms Hatchery
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~60 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Case Farms Hatchery (0.0 TCR gap)

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Koch Foods of Chattanooga Hatchery in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Koch Foods of Chattanooga Hatchery averages 0.7 TCR (15% of the Chicken hatcheries BLS benchmark).

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

Koch Foods of Chattanooga Hatchery TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=2.1 · BLS 4.5

Where Koch Foods of Chattanooga Hatchery falls in its industry

197 Chicken hatcheries establishments

Safer than 95% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 23 Chicken hatcheries employers in Alabama.

Koch Foods of Chattanooga Hatchery (60 employees, TCR 0.7) 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 Koch Foods of Chattanooga Hatchery
Koch Foods of Chattanooga Hatchery (60 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Koch Foods of Chattanooga Hatchery has more employees than the Chicken hatcheries 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
2021 2.1 2.1 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112340 · AL · Henagar

197 Chicken hatcheries employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 8 employers in Henagar, AL · 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 Case Farms Hatchery 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pilgrims Center Hatchery 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dagsboro DE Hatchery 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Laurel Hatchery 0.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mid Star Timber Harvesting 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE Weaver LLC 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE F & W Construction Company, Inc 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE Morales Welding Contractor 60 FTE
CITY-NEAR Henagar 201 FTE
CITY-NEAR Polymer Industries - Henagar 192 FTE
CITY-NEAR Storey Trucking 132 FTE
CITY-NEAR Henagar Hatchery 82 FTE
NAT-TCR Dixie Industry A Division of Columbus McKinnon 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Berry Global- Easthampton 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Cm7 Med - Tualatin 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Ac3 Med - San Jose (California) 0.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Munich Welding 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hines Kirkland Components (Truss) 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE Acker-Stone Industries 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE Willitts Equipment Co. Inc. 60 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: 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.