Poultry hatcheries · California

Metzer Farms

Gonzales, CA · ~43 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
16.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Metzer Farms runs at 377% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Poultry hatcheries workplace, earning a grade F.

Metzer Farms: 16.9 TCR = 377% of Poultry hatcheries BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Metzer Farms safety composite

Metzer Farms scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 2%), 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

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 16.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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

Metzer Farms: 3.7 → 30.2 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 30.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.45× in 2019

Metzer Farms's TCR rose 26.5 from 3.7 in 2017 to 30.2 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.45× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 112340 · Gonzales, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 16.9 · 377% of ind

  • DART 7.5 DART
  • RANK #4/4
  • PHOTO Robards Hatchery
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~43 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Robards Hatchery (0.5 TCR gap)

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Metzer Farms in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Metzer Farms averages 16.9 TCR (377% of the Poultry hatcheries BLS benchmark).

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

Metzer Farms TCR series: 2017=3.7 · 2019=30.2 · BLS 4.5

Where Metzer Farms falls in its industry

197 Poultry hatcheries establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 4 Poultry hatcheries employers in California.

Metzer Farms (43 employees, TCR 16.9) 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 Metzer Farms
Metzer Farms (43 employees, TCR 16.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Metzer Farms has more employees than the Poultry 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
2019 30.2 7.5 8 0 0
2017 3.7 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112340 · CA · Gonzales

197 Poultry hatcheries employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 28 employers in Gonzales, CA · 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 Robards Hatchery 16.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Humboldt Hatchery 16.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Select Genetics MN IPH 03-0110-10, 50, 51, 52, 970 19.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nebraska Hendrix-ISA, LLC 19.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Robert & Sandra Garcia Farming Partnership 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE ARVIN ADMINISTRATION 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Donald W Beeman 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE KG Vineyard Management, LLC 43 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mann Packing Inc 717 FTE
CITY-NEAR RC PACKING- SALINAS VALLEY 569 FTE
CITY-NEAR Misionero 458 FTE
CITY-NEAR RCP-SALINAS 415 FTE
NAT-TCR 330690-Berkeley Heights Po 16.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-SWY-0019-0019-01489 16.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 8807763-Lowes PA 16.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Kentucky Blood Center - Somerset 16.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Dept. of Health & Social Services (42) 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE NWR Services LLC - Charlotte 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Red Wolf Company LLC 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wis-Pak of La Crosse 43 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, 2017. 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.