Poultry hatcheries · Texas

Pilgrims Center Hatchery

Center, TX · ~21 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Pilgrims Center Hatchery runs at 14% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Poultry hatcheries workplace, earning a grade A.

Pilgrims Center Hatchery: 0.7 TCR = 14% of Poultry hatcheries BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Pilgrims Center Hatchery safety composite

Pilgrims Center Hatchery scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 96% 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).

B

77/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 96% 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

−3.9

2016→2024

Pilgrims Center Hatchery injury rate improved

Pilgrims Center Hatchery's TCR fell 3.9 from 3.9 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 3.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.9 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 112340 · Center, TX AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.7 · 14% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/13
  • PHOTO Laurel Hatchery
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Laurel Hatchery (0.0 TCR gap)

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Pilgrims Center Hatchery in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Pilgrims Center Hatchery averages 0.7 TCR (14% of the Poultry hatcheries BLS benchmark).

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

Pilgrims Center Hatchery TCR series: 2016=3.9 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 4.5

Where Pilgrims Center Hatchery falls in its industry

197 Poultry hatcheries establishments

Safer than 96% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 13 Poultry hatcheries employers in Texas.

Pilgrims Center Hatchery (21 employees, TCR 0.7) 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 Pilgrims Center Hatchery
Pilgrims Center Hatchery (21 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Pilgrims Center Hatchery has fewer employees than the Poultry 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 3.9 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112340 · TX · Center

197 Poultry hatcheries employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 25 employers in Center, TX · 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 Laurel Hatchery 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Case Farms Hatchery 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Koch Foods of Chattanooga Hatchery 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Unlimited Contract Services - Lake City, FL 0.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Grass Roots Farming LLC. 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dawn Cattle Feeders 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Twin Lakes Dairy LP 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE SEABOARD FOODS LP TEXAS MAINT 21 FTE
CITY-NEAR Center Processing Plant 1,549 FTE
CITY-NEAR Plant Facility 369 FTE
CITY-NEAR Portacool, LLC 311 FTE
CITY-NEAR 364 274 FTE
NAT-TCR Emigsville/Farmbrook 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Southern Region 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Goodway Graphics of MA., Inc 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Pioneer Americas LLC, St. Gabriel 0.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE 124 North Ft Myers 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Walker Granite Company 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Harrison County Rural Electric Cooperative 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Feed Mill 21 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, 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.