Chicken hatcheries · Wisconsin

Pilgrim's Hatchery

Independence, WI · ~24 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Pilgrim's Hatchery runs at 110% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Chicken hatcheries workplace, earning a grade C.

Pilgrim's Hatchery: 5.0 TCR = 110% of Chicken hatcheries BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Pilgrim's Hatchery safety composite

Pilgrim's Hatchery scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 39%), 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

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% 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

−2.7

2019→2023

Pilgrim's Hatchery injury rate improved

Pilgrim's Hatchery's TCR fell 2.7 from 6.9 in 2019 to 4.3 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2019 at 6.9 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=6.9 · 2020=4.5 · 2021=4.7 · 2022=4.5 · 2023=4.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 112340 · Independence, WI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 5.0 · 110% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P39
  • PHOTO Ellenwood Hatchery
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ellenwood Hatchery (0.1 TCR gap)

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Pilgrim's Hatchery in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Pilgrim's Hatchery averages 5.0 TCR (110% of the Chicken hatcheries BLS benchmark).

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

Pilgrim's Hatchery TCR series: 2019=6.9 · 2020=4.5 · 2021=4.7 · 2022=4.5 · 2023=4.3 · BLS 4.5

Where Pilgrim's Hatchery falls in its industry

197 Chicken hatcheries establishments

Safer than 39% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Pilgrim's Hatchery (24 employees, TCR 5.0) 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 Pilgrim's Hatchery
Pilgrim's Hatchery (24 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Pilgrim's Hatchery has fewer 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
2023 4.3 0.0 0 1 0
2022 4.5 0.0 0 1 0
2021 4.7 0.0 0 1 0
2020 4.5 4.5 0 1 0
2019 6.9 6.9 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112340 · WI · Independence

197 Chicken hatcheries employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 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 Ellenwood Hatchery 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hatchery 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Live Turkey - Dayton VA Hatchery 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sanderson Farms Kinston Hatchery 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Huntsinger Farms, Inc. 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Weiss Family Farms, Incorporated 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Omro Dairy, LLC 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Diversified Seed Producers 24 FTE
NAT-TCR Huckleberry's #636 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Az Cmop 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Crane 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Golden Gate Rehabilitation & Health Care 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Location 4 / EP 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Peachtree Village Retirement Community 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tec 23 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Red Oak Power. LLC 24 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.