Chicken hatcheries · Arkansas

Peco Foods Inc.-Hatchery

Pocahontas, AR · ~32 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Peco Foods Inc.-Hatchery runs at 67% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Chicken hatcheries workplace, earning a grade B.

Peco Foods Inc.-Hatchery: 3.0 TCR = 67% of Chicken hatcheries BLS 4.5 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Peco Foods Inc.-Hatchery safety composite

Peco Foods Inc.-Hatchery scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 75% 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).

C

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% 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%).

TCR Δ

−5.6

2016→2024

Peco Foods Inc.-Hatchery injury rate improved

Peco Foods Inc.-Hatchery's TCR fell 5.6 from 8.1 in 2016 to 2.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 8.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=8.1 · 2017=2.6 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=5.6 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=2.8 · 2022=2.7 · 2024=2.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 112340 · Pocahontas, AR AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 3.0 · 67% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #9/21
  • PHOTO Farmers Pride Inc / …
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~32 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Farmers Pride Inc / Bell & Evans Hatchery (0.0 TCR gap)

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Peco Foods Inc.-Hatchery in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Peco Foods Inc.-Hatchery averages 3.0 TCR (67% of the Chicken hatcheries BLS benchmark).

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

Peco Foods Inc.-Hatchery TCR series: 2016=8.1 · 2017=2.6 · 2018=0 · 2019=5.6 · 2020=0 · 2021=2.8 · 2022=2.7 · 2024=2.5 · BLS 4.5

Where Peco Foods Inc.-Hatchery falls in its industry

197 Chicken hatcheries establishments

Safer than 64% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arkansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 21 Chicken hatcheries employers in Arkansas.

Peco Foods Inc.-Hatchery (32 employees, TCR 3.0) 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 Peco Foods Inc.-Hatchery
Peco Foods Inc.-Hatchery (32 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Peco Foods Inc.-Hatchery has fewer 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 Illnesses Fatalities
2024 2.5 0.0 1 0 0
2022 2.7 2.7 1 0 0
2021 2.8 2.8 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 5.6 2.8 2 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 2.6 0.0 1 0 0
2016 8.1 2.7 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112340 · AR · Pocahontas

197 Chicken hatcheries employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,393 rated employers in Arkansas with headcount on file · 24 employers in Pocahontas, AR · 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 Farmers Pride Inc / Bell & Evans Hatchery 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Butterball Hatchery # 3 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Morrilton Hatchery 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fayetteville Hatchery (CV) 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE black oak gin co llc 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Benton 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pine Bluff Office 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE E&M Contractors, LLC 32 FTE
CITY-NEAR Peco Foods Inc.-Poultry Processing Plant 1,306 FTE
CITY-NEAR 71 244 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 71 242 FTE
CITY-NEAR Randolph County Nursing Home 225 FTE
NAT-TCR Kemper Northwest 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR The Fresh Market 072 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR R & R Millwork, Inc. 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Perpetual Machine Co. 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ice Cream Parlor 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Homestead Courtyard Marriott 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Holyoke-1727 Northampton Street 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Profile Grinding Inc 32 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, 2022, 2021, 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.