Chicken hatcheries · Pennsylvania

Longenecker's Hatchery, Inc.

Elizabethtown, PA · ~96 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Longenecker's Hatchery, Inc. runs at 171% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Chicken hatcheries workplace, earning a grade D.

Longenecker's Hatchery, Inc.: 7.7 TCR = 171% of Chicken hatcheries BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Longenecker's Hatchery, Inc. safety composite

Longenecker's Hatchery, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 17%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% 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

Longenecker's Hatchery, Inc.: 4.5 → 7.4 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 11.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.48× in 2023

Longenecker's Hatchery, Inc.'s TCR rose 2.9 from 4.5 in 2017 to 7.4 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2018 at 11.6 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.48× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 112340 · Elizabethtown, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.7 · 171% of ind

  • DART 3.7 DART
  • RANK #7/8
  • PHOTO Hatchery (Sallisaw)
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 44 inj
  • SIZE ~96 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hatchery (Sallisaw) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Longenecker's Hatchery, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Longenecker's Hatchery, Inc. averages 7.7 TCR (171% of the Chicken hatcheries BLS benchmark).

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

Longenecker's Hatchery, Inc. TCR series: 2017=4.5 · 2018=11.6 · 2019=9.7 · 2020=3 · 2021=10 · 2023=7.4 · BLS 4.5

Where Longenecker's Hatchery, Inc. falls in its industry

197 Chicken hatcheries establishments

Safer than 17% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 8 Chicken hatcheries employers in Pennsylvania.

Longenecker's Hatchery, Inc. (96 employees, TCR 7.7) 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 Longenecker's Hatchery, Inc.
Longenecker's Hatchery, Inc. (96 employees, TCR 7.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Longenecker's Hatchery, Inc. has more 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
2023 7.4 3.7 8 0 0
2021 10.0 3.0 10 0 0
2020 3.0 2.0 3 0 0
2019 9.7 5.4 9 0 0
2018 11.6 11.6 10 1 0
2017 4.5 0.0 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112340 · PA · Elizabethtown

197 Chicken hatcheries employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 47 employers in Elizabethtown, 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 Hatchery (Sallisaw) 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Camilla Hatchery 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wadesboro Hatchery / Transp 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1247- HA- Live Oak, FL 7.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Ardmore PA 96 FTE
STATE-SIZE Zartman 96 FTE
STATE-SIZE G W Peoples Contracting Co., Inc. 96 FTE
STATE-SIZE CARSON CONCRETE CORPORATION 96 FTE
CITY-NEAR Masonic Villages at Elizabethtown 1,879 FTE
CITY-NEAR ELZ 327 FTE
CITY-NEAR 8010130 Mars Snackfood Elizabethtown 254 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - DPH7 248 FTE
NAT-TCR FSoil LLC 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Bogen 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Staten Island Mall 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Waltham Lumber Co. 7.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pegasus Steel LLC. 96 FTE
NAT-SIZE McGaha Electric Co.,Inc. 96 FTE
NAT-SIZE Industrial Air Centers, Inc. 96 FTE
NAT-SIZE Minnesota State Community & Technical College- Fergus Falls 96 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.