Poultry Processing · Delaware

Milford Plant

Milford, DE · ~1,425 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Milford Plant runs at 49% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Poultry Processing workplace, earning a grade A.

Milford Plant: 1.6 TCR = 49% of Poultry Processing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Milford Plant safety composite

Milford Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 85% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 54%), 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

74/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 54% 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

−0.8

2016→2024

Milford Plant injury rate improved

Milford Plant's TCR fell 0.8 from 1.6 in 2016 to 0.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 2.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.36× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.6 · 2017=2.2 · 2018=1.8 · 2019=1.1 · 2021=2.7 · 2022=1.7 · 2023=0.9 · 2024=0.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311615 · Milford, DE AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade A · TCR 1.6 · 49% of ind

  • DART 0.6 DART
  • RANK #2/8
  • PHOTO Sanderson Farms Tyle…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 184 inj
  • SIZE ~1,425 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sanderson Farms Tyler Processing (0.0 TCR gap)

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Milford Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Milford Plant averages 1.6 TCR (49% of the Poultry Processing BLS benchmark).

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

Milford Plant TCR series: 2016=1.6 · 2017=2.2 · 2018=1.8 · 2019=1.1 · 2021=2.7 · 2022=1.7 · 2023=0.9 · 2024=0.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Milford Plant falls in its industry

509 Poultry Processing establishments

Safer than 85% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Delaware alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 8 Poultry Processing employers in Delaware.

Milford Plant (1,425 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 05001,0001,5002,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Milford Plant
Milford Plant (1,425 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Milford Plant has more employees than the Poultry Processing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 0.9 0.6 13 0 0
2023 0.9 0.6 14 0 0
2022 1.7 0.7 23 0 0
2021 2.7 1.7 39 0 0
2019 1.1 0.7 15 0 0
2018 1.8 1.3 21 2 0
2017 2.2 1.4 34 0 0
2016 1.6 0.9 25 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311615 · DE · Milford

509 Poultry Processing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,487 rated employers in Delaware with headcount on file · 49 employers in Milford, DE · 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 Sanderson Farms Tyler Processing 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fieldale Farms - Cornelia Plant 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2nd Street, P-19719 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR John Soules Foods 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Newark Site 1,462 FTE
STATE-SIZE AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals (Wilmington Facility) 1,514 FTE
STATE-SIZE DuPont Chestnut Run Plaza 1,515 FTE
STATE-SIZE Harbeson DE Processing Facility 1,537 FTE
CITY-NEAR DEL0000022 GOODWILL INDUSTRIES - MILFORD 1,028 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sussex Campus 890 FTE
CITY-NEAR Milford Memorial Hospital 741 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1741 391 FTE
NAT-TCR Adkins Energy LLC 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Taylor-Winfield Technologies, Inc. 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Lynch Road Service Center 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Demolition & Asbestos Removal Inc. 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Vienna Plant 1,425 FTE
NAT-SIZE Solar Turbines Inc. 2200 Pacific Hwy 1,425 FTE
NAT-SIZE Campbell Soup Supply Company, LLC 1,425 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Panther Group, Inc 1,425 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, 2022, 2021, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.