Chicken hatcheries · Pennsylvania

Moyer's Chicks, Inc.

Quakertown, PA · ~42 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Moyer's Chicks, Inc. runs at 101% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Chicken hatcheries workplace, earning a grade C.

Moyer's Chicks, Inc.: 4.5 TCR = 101% of Chicken hatcheries BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Moyer's Chicks, Inc. safety composite

Moyer's Chicks, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 11%), 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

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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

Moyer's Chicks, Inc.: 2.5 → 8.3 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 8.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.22× in 2020

Moyer's Chicks, Inc.'s TCR rose 5.9 from 2.5 in 2016 to 8.3 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 8.7 TCR. In 2020, DART was 1.22× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 4.5 · 101% of ind

  • DART 5.6 DART
  • RANK #3/8
  • PHOTO Dalton Hatchery
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~42 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Dalton Hatchery (0.0 TCR gap)

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Moyer's Chicks, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Moyer's Chicks, Inc. averages 4.5 TCR (101% of the Chicken hatcheries BLS benchmark).

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

Moyer's Chicks, Inc. TCR series: 2016=2.5 · 2017=0 · 2018=3.3 · 2019=8.7 · 2020=8.3 · BLS 4.5

Where Moyer's Chicks, Inc. falls in its industry

197 Chicken hatcheries establishments

Safer than 42% 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 #3 safest of 8 Chicken hatcheries employers in Pennsylvania.

Moyer's Chicks, Inc. (42 employees, TCR 4.5) 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 Moyer's Chicks, Inc.
Moyer's Chicks, Inc. (42 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Moyer's Chicks, 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
2020 8.3 5.6 3 0 0
2019 8.7 8.7 3 0 0
2018 3.3 3.3 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 2.5 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112340 · PA · Quakertown

197 Chicken hatcheries employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 116 employers in Quakertown, 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 Dalton Hatchery 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sanderson Farms Waco Hatchery 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hatchery (Quitman) 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sanderson Farms Hazlehurst Hatchery 4.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Needhams Mushroom Farm 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE KSS Sales 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hy-Tech Mushroom Compost, Inc. 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hopewell Organics, LLC 42 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Luke's Quakertown Hospital 466 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2446 449 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2446 310 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pulse Technologies 242 FTE
NAT-TCR Dominion Senior Living of Sevierville 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Quincy QRP 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Bellevue Builders Schenectady & Rotterdam - 101 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Pyramid Orlando Downtown Management LLC 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Courtyard Salt Lake City Airport 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE SP Scientific - Stone Ridge, NY 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Washington Park Hotel 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE General Steel Contractor Inc. 42 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: 2020, 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.