Turkeys, processing, fresh, frozen, canned, or cooked · Pennsylvania

Koch's Turkey Farm

Tamaqua, PA · ~59 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Koch's Turkey Farm runs at 199% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Turkeys, processing, fresh, frozen, canned, or cooked workplace, earning a grade D.

Koch's Turkey Farm: 6.6 TCR = 199% of Turkeys, processing, fresh, frozen, canned, or cooked BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Koch's Turkey Farm safety composite

Koch's Turkey Farm scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 20%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% 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%).

TCR Δ

−6.6

2021→2023

Koch's Turkey Farm injury rate improved

Koch's Turkey Farm's TCR fell 6.6 from 9.9 in 2021 to 3.3 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 9.9 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=9.9 · 2023=3.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311615 · Tamaqua, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.6 · 199% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK #14/18
  • PHOTO OKF Muldrow Processing
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~59 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: OKF Muldrow Processing (0.0 TCR gap)

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Koch's Turkey Farm in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Koch's Turkey Farm averages 6.6 TCR (199% of the Turkeys, processing, fresh, frozen, canned, or cooked BLS benchmark).

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

Koch's Turkey Farm TCR series: 2021=9.9 · 2023=3.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Koch's Turkey Farm falls in its industry

509 Turkeys, processing, fresh, fr establishments

Safer than 21% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 18 Turkeys, processing, fresh, fr employers in Pennsylvania.

Koch's Turkey Farm (59 employees, TCR 6.6) 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 05001,0001,5002,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Koch's Turkey Farm
Koch's Turkey Farm (59 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Koch's Turkey Farm has fewer employees than the Turkeys, processing, fresh, frozen, cann median and a higher 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
2023 3.3 3.3 2 0 0
2021 9.9 2.0 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311615 · PA · Tamaqua

509 Turkeys, processing, fresh, frozen, canned, or cooked employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 22 employers in Tamaqua, PA · 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 OKF Muldrow Processing 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Shelbyville Plant 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pearl River Foods LLC 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cooper Farms Cooked Meats 6.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Dan Schantz Greenhouse (Pipersville, PA) 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE North Creek Nurseries, Inc. 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eddystone Generating Station 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE S&A Homes, Inc. 59 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hefty Business Unit - Tamaqua, Pennsylvania 326 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 3634 288 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hometown 278 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3634 245 FTE
NAT-TCR Plastic Molded Concepts, Inc. 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 1985 - Owatonna Return Center - Mn 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Tops #273 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Henry Schein - TXSAN 6.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE 87 - Archer Western Federal JV 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Belmont Metals Inc. 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lackland Surgical Center - EVS 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Silver Health Care 59 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: 2023, 2021. 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.