Poultry Hatcheries · Tennessee

Obion County Hatchery

Union City, TN · ~34 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Obion County Hatchery runs at 208% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Poultry Hatcheries workplace, earning a grade F.

Obion County Hatchery: 9.4 TCR = 208% of Poultry Hatcheries BLS 4.5 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Obion County Hatchery safety composite

Obion County Hatchery scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 10%), 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).

D

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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%).

Obion County Hatchery held a steady TCR band

Obion County Hatchery's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 21.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=0.0 · 2018=7.4 · 2019=13.4 · 2020=18.8 · 2021=9.2 · 2022=21.6 · 2023=4.6 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 112340 · Union City, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.4 · 208% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #5/6
  • PHOTO Monroe Hatchery
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~34 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Monroe Hatchery (0.1 TCR gap)

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Obion County Hatchery in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Obion County Hatchery averages 9.4 TCR (208% of the Poultry Hatcheries BLS benchmark).

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

Obion County Hatchery TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=7.4 · 2019=13.4 · 2020=18.8 · 2021=9.2 · 2022=21.6 · 2023=4.6 · 2024=0 · BLS 4.5

Where Obion County Hatchery falls in its industry

197 Poultry Hatcheries establishments

Safer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 6 Poultry Hatcheries employers in Tennessee.

Obion County Hatchery (34 employees, TCR 9.4) 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 Obion County Hatchery
Obion County Hatchery (34 employees, TCR 9.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Obion County Hatchery has fewer 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 4.6 4.6 1 1 0
2022 21.6 21.6 0 8 0
2021 9.2 9.2 0 4 0
2020 18.8 16.1 2 5 0
2019 13.4 13.4 3 1 0
2018 7.4 7.4 2 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112340 · TN · Union City

197 Poultry Hatcheries employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 44 employers in Union City, TN · 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 Monroe Hatchery 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hatchery 9.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Star City Hatchery 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Springdale Hatchery 8.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE UCEMC Cookeville 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE RKA Construction, LLC 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE AGM-Tennessee 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wagner General Contractors, Inc, TN 34 FTE
CITY-NEAR Obion County Plant 1,395 FTE
CITY-NEAR Williams Sausage 414 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hickman Road Plant 376 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baptist Memorial Hospital - Union City 335 FTE
NAT-TCR Lumber One 9.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Minneapolis 138 9.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Little Rock 056 9.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Sure-Fab, LLC 9.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Dakota City PBX 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fire Department 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ambrit Industries Inc 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Recreation Department 34 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.