Chicken hatcheries · Pennsylvania

Matterns Hatchery

Beaver Springs, PA · ~20 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Matterns Hatchery runs at 60% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Chicken hatcheries workplace, earning a grade B.

Matterns Hatchery: 2.7 TCR = 60% of Chicken hatcheries BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Matterns Hatchery safety composite

Matterns Hatchery scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

67/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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%).

TCR Δ

−5.4

2023→2024

Matterns Hatchery injury rate improved

Matterns Hatchery's TCR fell 5.4 from 5.4 in 2023 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 5.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=5.4 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 112340 · Beaver Springs, PA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.7 · 60% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/8
  • PHOTO Franklin Hatchery
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Franklin Hatchery (0.0 TCR gap)

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Matterns Hatchery in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Matterns Hatchery averages 2.7 TCR (60% of the Chicken hatcheries BLS benchmark).

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

Matterns Hatchery TCR series: 2023=5.4 · 2024=0 · BLS 4.5

Where Matterns Hatchery falls in its industry

197 Chicken hatcheries establishments

Safer than 71% 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 #1 safest of 8 Chicken hatcheries employers in Pennsylvania.

Matterns Hatchery (20 employees, TCR 2.7) 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 050100150 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Matterns Hatchery
Matterns Hatchery (20 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Matterns Hatchery has fewer 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 5.4 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112340 · PA · Beaver Springs

197 Chicken hatcheries employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 7 employers in Beaver Springs, 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 Franklin Hatchery 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pilgrim's Pride Commerce Hatchery 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Winesburg Hatchery 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Butterball Hatchery # 1 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE VanBlarcom 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brookfield Renewable - Holtwood 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Springdale 3,4,5 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE UGI Development Company 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR Beaver Springs 153 FTE
CITY-NEAR DONALD B REMMEY INC 105 FTE
CITY-NEAR DONALD BREMMEY INC 88 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sun Precast Co., Inc. 25 FTE
NAT-TCR Petersen Industries, Inc. 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Carolina Stone Distributors 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Rosscrete Roofing, Inc. 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Laurens 2.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Branan Lodge 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Storm Construction, Inc. 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Parkdale Mills, Inc Plant 52 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Wellington at Conroe 20 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: 2024, 2023. 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.