Chicken hatcheries · Georgia

Lavonia Hatchery

Lavonia, GA · ~36 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lavonia Hatchery runs at 245% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Chicken hatcheries workplace, earning a grade F.

Lavonia Hatchery: 11.0 TCR = 245% of Chicken hatcheries BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lavonia Hatchery safety composite

Lavonia Hatchery scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 5%), 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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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

Lavonia Hatchery: 5.1 → 12.6 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 15.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.57× in 2018

Lavonia Hatchery's TCR rose 7.5 from 5.1 in 2016 to 12.6 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 15.4 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.57× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 112340 · Lavonia, GA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.0 · 245% of ind

  • DART 6.3 DART
  • RANK #25/26
  • PHOTO Center Hatchery
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~36 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Center Hatchery (0.2 TCR gap)

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Lavonia Hatchery in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lavonia Hatchery averages 11.0 TCR (245% of the Chicken hatcheries BLS benchmark).

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

Lavonia Hatchery TCR series: 2016=5.1 · 2017=15.4 · 2018=12.6 · BLS 4.5

Where Lavonia Hatchery falls in its industry

197 Chicken hatcheries establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Georgia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #25 safest of 26 Chicken hatcheries employers in Georgia.

Lavonia Hatchery (36 employees, TCR 11.0) 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 Lavonia Hatchery
Lavonia Hatchery (36 employees, TCR 11.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Lavonia Hatchery has fewer employees than the Chicken 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
2018 12.6 6.3 4 0 0
2017 15.4 15.4 5 0 0
2016 5.1 5.1 1 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112340 · GA · Lavonia

197 Chicken hatcheries employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 14,941 rated employers in Georgia with headcount on file · 36 employers in Lavonia, GA · 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 Center Hatchery 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hendrix 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Moyer's Hatchery 11.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Clarksville Hatchery #1 10.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Atlas Greenhouse Systems, Inc. 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fieldale Farms - Stephen County hatchery 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mar-Jac Poultry Farms, Lula Hatchery 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE TA Smith 36 FTE
CITY-NEAR 9711 566 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Mary's Sacred Heart Hospital-SMHCS-GA 359 FTE
CITY-NEAR Carry-On Lavonia 329 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sacred Heart 323 FTE
NAT-TCR Commercial Insulating Glass Company, Sarasota, FL 11.0 TCR
NAT-TCR The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis 11.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Holland - WS 11.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Malace International 11.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE ASC 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE J.W. Walker & Sons, Inc. 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE JAXS 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ward Dental Lab 36 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.