Chicken hatcheries · Mississippi

Mendenhall Hatchery

Name: Mendenhall Hatchery Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Mendenhall, MS · ~40 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 0.4
Avg TCR: 4.5
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Mendenhall Hatchery runs at 10% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Chicken hatcheries workplace, earning a grade A.

Mendenhall Hatchery: 0.4 TCR = 10% of Chicken hatcheries BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Mendenhall Hatchery safety composite

Mendenhall Hatchery scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 98% 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).

78/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): A 0.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 98% 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%).

Mendenhall Hatchery held a steady TCR band

Mendenhall Hatchery's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 1.7 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2017=1.7 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 112340 · Mendenhall, MS AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.4 · 10% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #1/20
PHOTO GGP Hatchery/Egg Dep…
BOOK 4y book
INJ 1 inj
SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: GGP Hatchery/Egg Depot (Elkmont) (0.1 TCR gap)

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Live Turkey -

0.6
Unlimited Cont

0.6
This site

0.4
GGP Hatchery/E

0.3
Batesville Hat

0.3

What this shows Mendenhall Hatchery averages 0.4 TCR (10% of the Chicken hatcheries BLS benchmark).

Mendenhall Hatchery TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=1.7 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · BLS 4.5

Where Mendenhall Hatchery falls in its industry

197 Chicken hatcheries establishments

Safer than 98% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Mississippi alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 20 Chicken hatcheries employers in Mississippi.

Mendenhall Hatchery (40 employees, TCR 0.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Mendenhall Hatchery has more 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
2019	0.0	0.0	0
2018	0.0	0.0	0
2017	1.7	1.7	1
2016	0.0	0.0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112340 · MS · Mendenhall

197 Chicken hatcheries employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,083 rated employers in Mississippi with headcount on file · 7 employers in Mendenhall, MS · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	GGP Hatchery/Egg Depot (Elkmont)	ELKMONT, AL	0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Live Turkey - Springdale AR Ag Hatchery	GENTRY, AR	0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Unlimited Contract Services - Lake City, FL	BUENA VISTA, GA	0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Batesville Hatchery	BATESVILLE, AR	0.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Sanderson Farms Laurel Hatchery	ELLISVILLE	40 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Brookhaven Network	BROOKHAVEN	40 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Picayune	PICAYUNE	40 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Prentiss County EPA	302 W. CHURCH ST BOONEVILLE	40 FTE
CITY-NEAR	ZA Construction - MS	Mendenhall	259 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Simpson General Hospital	Mendenhall	241 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Howard Industries Inc. (Mendenhall)	Mendenhall	117 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Bedford Care Center of Mendenhall, LLC	Mendenhall	59 FTE
NAT-TCR	Hanesbrands Northridge 531 Office	Rural Hall, NC	0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	Corporate Headquarters	Lake Forest, IL	0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	Great Lakes Packaging Corp - Germantown	Germantown, WI	0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	Chromalox Inc. - Pittsburgh	Pittsburgh, PA	0.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Brookdale McCook	Mccook, NE	40 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Rome	Sheldon, IA	40 FTE
NAT-SIZE	WTQUI	Quincy, WA	40 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Eastwood Elementary School	Roseburg, OR	40 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: 2019, 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.