Poultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing · Louisiana

Pilgrims- Plant

Natchitoches, LA · ~599 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Pilgrims- Plant runs at 113% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Poultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing workplace, earning a grade C.

Pilgrims- Plant: 3.7 TCR = 113% of Poultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Pilgrims- Plant safety composite

Pilgrims- Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 32%), 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 54% 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

Pilgrims- Plant: 2.3 → 9.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 9.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.62× in 2024

Pilgrims- Plant's TCR rose 6.8 from 2.3 in 2016 to 9.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.62× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311615 · Natchitoches, LA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.7 · 113% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK #5/7
  • PHOTO Golden Rod Broilers
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 78 inj
  • SIZE ~599 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Golden Rod Broilers (0.0 TCR gap)

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Pilgrims- Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Pilgrims- Plant averages 3.7 TCR (113% of the Poultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing BLS benchmark).

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

Pilgrims- Plant TCR series: 2016=2.3 · 2017=2.6 · 2020=2.2 · 2021=3.4 · 2022=2.9 · 2023=3.6 · 2024=9.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Pilgrims- Plant falls in its industry

509 Poultry slaughtering, dressing establishments

Safer than 47% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Louisiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 7 Poultry slaughtering, dressing employers in Louisiana.

Pilgrims- Plant (599 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 05001,0001,5002,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Pilgrims- Plant
Pilgrims- Plant (599 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Pilgrims- Plant has fewer employees than the Poultry slaughtering, dressing, and pack median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 9.1 2.3 15 40 0
2023 3.6 1.4 14 7 0
2022 2.9 0.7 8 8 0
2021 3.4 0.9 14 4 0
2020 2.2 1.8 12 0 0
2017 2.6 0.8 9 4 0
2016 2.3 0.4 6 6 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311615 · LA · Natchitoches

509 Poultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 6,723 rated employers in Louisiana with headcount on file · 85 employers in Natchitoches, LA · 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 Golden Rod Broilers 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Northern Pride, Inc. 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pinnacle Plant /Allen Harim LLC 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Southern Hens, Inc. KP 3.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Corporate Log 600 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sanderson Farms Hammond Processing 600 FTE
STATE-SIZE Slidell Memorial East 597 FTE
STATE-SIZE 216567-NEW ORLEANS LA P&DC 596 FTE
CITY-NEAR Natchitoches Regional Medical Center 792 FTE
CITY-NEAR Alliance Compressors 623 FTE
CITY-NEAR Emerson 572 FTE
CITY-NEAR 170 347 FTE
NAT-TCR Giant Eagle #6550 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR New Bern 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Osceola Telling 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Valley West 3.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE JP Cullen & Sons 599 FTE
NAT-SIZE Largo Concrete, Inc. 599 FTE
NAT-SIZE JFK 599 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dist Office 599 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, 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.