Chickens, processing, fresh, frozen, canned, or cooked (except baby and pet food) · West Virginia

Pilgrims Prepared Foods

Moorefield, WV · ~498 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Pilgrims Prepared Foods runs at 97% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Chickens, processing, fresh, frozen, canned, or cooked (except baby and pet food) workplace, earning a grade C.

Pilgrims Prepared Foods: 3.2 TCR = 97% of Chickens, processing, fresh, frozen, canned, or cooked (except baby and pet food) BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Pilgrims Prepared Foods safety composite

Pilgrims Prepared Foods scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 53%), 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)
D 3.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.6

2016→2021

Pilgrims Prepared Foods injury rate improved

Pilgrims Prepared Foods's TCR fell 4.6 from 6.6 in 2016 to 2.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2016 at 6.6 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.09× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.6 · 2020=1.1 · 2021=2.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311615 · Moorefield, WV AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.2 · 97% of ind

  • DART 0.3 DART
  • RANK #4/7
  • PHOTO Harrisonburg Process…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 42 inj
  • SIZE ~498 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Harrisonburg Processing (0.0 TCR gap)

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Pilgrims Prepared Foods in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Pilgrims Prepared Foods averages 3.2 TCR (97% of the Chickens, processing, fresh, frozen, canned, or cooked (except baby and pet food) BLS benchmark).

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

Pilgrims Prepared Foods TCR series: 2016=6.6 · 2020=1.1 · 2021=2 · BLS 3.3

Where Pilgrims Prepared Foods falls in its industry

509 Chickens, processing, fresh, f establishments

Safer than 53% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to West Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 7 Chickens, processing, fresh, f employers in West Virginia.

Pilgrims Prepared Foods (498 employees, TCR 3.2) 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 Prepared Foods
Pilgrims Prepared Foods (498 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Pilgrims Prepared Foods has fewer employees than the Chickens, processing, fresh, frozen, can median and a lower 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
2021 2.0 0.3 3 4 0
2020 1.1 0.6 4 0 0
2016 6.6 3.4 35 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311615 · WV · Moorefield

509 Chickens, processing, fresh, frozen, canned, or cooked (except baby and pet food) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,269 rated employers in West Virginia with headcount on file · 24 employers in Moorefield, WV · 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 Harrisonburg Processing 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sanderson Farms Palestine Processing 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pilgrims Moorefield Feed Mill 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR George's Springdale Processing Plant 3.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Asplundh Tree Expert, LLC - 040 499 FTE
STATE-SIZE CHARLESTON_1441288 500 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cabela's Distribution Center 915 - Wheeling 495 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Thrasher Group 492 FTE
CITY-NEAR Moorefield Fresh Foods Processing 1,162 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pilgrim's Moorefield Fresh Plant 924 FTE
CITY-NEAR South Branch Plant 772 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pilgrims Moorefield PF 534 FTE
NAT-TCR Butler Motor Coach 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR New Milford Public Schools Schaghticoke 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Tanglewood Health and Rehab 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 7581-Enphg-Marietta College 3.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Tran-Global Solutions 498 FTE
NAT-SIZE Berry Brothers General Contractors, Inc. 498 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6458-ZNPI 498 FTE
NAT-SIZE Core-Mark Midcontinent, Inc. dba Farner-Bocken 498 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: 2021, 2020, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.