Poultry (e.g., canned, cooked, fresh, frozen) processing · Georgia

Pilgrims Pride Elberton

Name: Pilgrims Pride Elberton Workplace Safety Data
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Elberton, GA · ~407 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 2.2
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Pilgrims Pride Elberton runs at 67% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Poultry (e.g., canned, cooked, fresh, frozen) processing workplace, earning a grade B.

Pilgrims Pride Elberton: 2.2 TCR = 67% of Poultry (e.g., canned, cooked, fresh, frozen) processing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Pilgrims Pride Elberton safety composite

Pilgrims Pride Elberton scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 72% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 54%), 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).

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 2.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% of industry peers
DART rate: C 0.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% 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 Pride Elberton: 1.6 → 2.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.43× in 2024

Pilgrims Pride Elberton's TCR rose 1.3 from 1.6 in 2023 to 2.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.43× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311615 · Elberton, GA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.2 · 67% of ind

DART 1.0 DART
RANK #28/67
PHOTO Vicksburg Plant
BOOK 2y book
INJ 17 inj
SIZE ~407 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Vicksburg Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Vicksburg Plan

2.2
SSFP

2.2
Processing Pla

2.2
FTP1

2.2

What this shows Pilgrims Pride Elberton averages 2.2 TCR (67% of the Poultry (e.g., canned, cooked, fresh, frozen) processing BLS benchmark).

Pilgrims Pride Elberton TCR series: 2023=1.6 · 2024=2.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Pilgrims Pride Elberton falls in its industry

509 Poultry (e.g., canned, cooked, establishments

Safer than 72% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Georgia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #28 safest of 67 Poultry (e.g., canned, cooked, employers in Georgia.

Pilgrims Pride Elberton (407 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Pilgrims Pride Elberton has fewer employees than the Poultry (e.g., canned, cooked, fresh, fr 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
2024	2.9	1.0	11	1	0
2023	1.6	0.3	6	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311615 · GA · Elberton

509 Poultry (e.g., canned, cooked, fresh, frozen) processing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 14,941 rated employers in Georgia with headcount on file · 27 employers in Elberton, GA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Vicksburg Plant	VICKSBURG, MS	2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	SSFP	SILOAM SPRINGS, AR	2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Processing Plant Poultry	HICKORY, KY	2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	FTP1	TURLOCK, CA	2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE	1215	CALHOUN	407 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Snyder's Lance Columbus	COLUMBUS	406 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Oriental Weavers USA, Inc.	DALTON	406 FTE
STATE-SIZE	4206-00950003-950000	COMMERCE	406 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Pilgrims Elberton GA	Elberton	316 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Elbert Memorial Hospital	Elberton	201 FTE
CITY-NEAR	STAR GRANITE CO INC	Elberton	168 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Matthews Granite- Star / Elite	Elberton	163 FTE
NAT-TCR	Torrance Office	Torrance, CA	2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Carrier Commercial Services (New York)	New York, NY	2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Our Sunday Visitor	Huntington, IN	2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Spartanburg Med-Mary	Spartanburg, SC	2.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE	PACCAR Inc - Corporate	Bellevue, WA	407 FTE
NAT-SIZE	New England Wire Technologies Corporation	Lisbon, NH	407 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Block 22 LLC	Boise, ID	407 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Triad Manufacturing, Inc.	St. Louis, MO	407 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.