Kreider Farms - Middletown Egg
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MIDDLETOWN, PA | Egg production, chicken
~72 avg employees | 7 years of OSHA data
Kreider Farms - Middletown Egg has an average TCR of 7.6, which is 170% of the industry average (4.5) for Egg production, chicken. This is worse than average.
Safety Insights for Kreider Farms - Middletown Egg
Kreider Farms - Middletown Egg operates an establishment with approximately 72 full-time equivalent workers in MIDDLETOWN, PA, classified under the Egg production, chicken industry (NAICS 112310). Across 7 years of mandatory OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA) reporting, this employer has accumulated 47 recordable injuries, 0 occupational illnesses, and 0 workplace fatalities. The average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 7.6 injuries per 100 full-time workers per year provides the anchor metric for the D letter grade (Poor Safety Record).
Benchmarked against the Bureau of Labor Statistics industry average of 4.5 for Egg production, chicken, Kreider Farms - Middletown Egg's workforce experiences 170% of the typical injury burden. This ratio matters because TCR already normalizes for hours worked — a 200,000-hour exposure base equals roughly 100 full-time workers — so establishments with very different headcounts can be compared directly. A TCR above the benchmark flags a higher-than-typical risk profile for jobseekers, insurers, and enforcement agencies to examine.
Multi-year trend analysis is the single most reliable signal here: a one-year spike could reflect a single severe event, whereas sustained elevation across 7 reporting cycles points to systemic hazard exposure. Readers evaluating Kreider Farms - Middletown Egg as an employer, contractor, investment, or regulatory target should examine the yearly DART rate (days away, restricted, or transferred), the fatality count of 0, and any year-over-year deterioration shown in the table below. All figures come directly from employer-submitted OSHA Form 300A summaries — there is no modeling, estimation, or third-party adjustment layered on top of the government data.
Verify This Employer with OSHA
All injury, illness, and fatality figures on this page are sourced from Kreider Farms - Middletown Egg's own mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source — name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.
Verify on OSHA Establishment SearchSource: U.S. Department of Labor — OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 112310 — Egg production, chicken.
DART Rate — Transparent Calculation (2022)
DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.
4 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 218,849 hours worked = 3.66 DART
Methodology: 29 CFR 1904 — OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping
Cross-Validating Context — Establishment vs Industry vs State
| Benchmark | TCR | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Kreider Farms - Middletown Egg (this establishment) | 7.63 | OSHA ITA Form 300A, 7-year avg |
| Chicken egg production industry avg | 4.50 | BLS IIF, NAICS 112310 |
| Pennsylvania state avg (all industries) | 18.85 | OSHA ITA, state-level rollup |
Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics — Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program
Reportable Incident Timeline
Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Kreider Farms - Middletown Egg to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.
- 2022: 4 reportable incidents · 4 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2021: 5 reportable incidents · 5 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2020: 8 reportable incidents · 8 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2019: 6 reportable incidents · 6 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2018: 4 reportable incidents · 4 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2017: 5 reportable incidents · 5 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2016: 15 reportable incidents · 15 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) — inspection case-number records
Year-by-Year Safety Data
| Year | TCR | DART | Injuries | Illnesses | Fatalities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 3.7 | 3.7 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 5.2 | 5.2 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 8.5 | 7.4 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 6.8 | 5.7 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 4.7 | 3.5 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 6.6 | 5.3 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | 17.9 | 16.8 | 15 | 0 | 0 |
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