Chickens, slaughtering and dressing · Georgia

Pilgrim's Pride Processing Plant

Ellijay, GA · ~829 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Pilgrim's Pride Processing Plant runs at 59% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Chickens, slaughtering and dressing workplace, earning a grade B.

Pilgrim's Pride Processing Plant: 1.9 TCR = 59% of Chickens, slaughtering and dressing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Pilgrim's Pride Processing Plant safety composite

Pilgrim's Pride Processing Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 79% 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).

C

73/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% 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

−1.4

2016→2024

Pilgrim's Pride Processing Plant injury rate improved

Pilgrim's Pride Processing Plant's TCR fell 1.4 from 2.7 in 2016 to 1.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 2.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.27× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.7 · 2017=2.8 · 2020=1.6 · 2021=0.8 · 2022=2.5 · 2023=1.8 · 2024=1.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade B · TCR 1.9 · 59% of ind

  • DART 0.5 DART
  • RANK #22/67
  • PHOTO Ambassador Sanitatio…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 68 inj
  • SIZE ~829 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ambassador Sanitation Management @ Wayne Farms Enterprise (0.0 TCR gap)

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Pilgrim's Pride Processing Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Pilgrim's Pride Processing Plant averages 1.9 TCR (59% of the Chickens, slaughtering and dressing BLS benchmark).

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

Pilgrim's Pride Processing Plant TCR series: 2016=2.7 · 2017=2.8 · 2020=1.6 · 2021=0.8 · 2022=2.5 · 2023=1.8 · 2024=1.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Pilgrim's Pride Processing Plant falls in its industry

509 Chickens, slaughtering and dre establishments

Safer than 79% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Georgia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #22 safest of 67 Chickens, slaughtering and dre employers in Georgia.

Pilgrim's Pride Processing Plant (829 employees, TCR 1.9) 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 Pilgrim's Pride Processing Plant
Pilgrim's Pride Processing Plant (829 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Pilgrim's Pride Processing Plant has more employees than the Chickens, slaughtering and dressing 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 1.4 0.5 5 8 0
2023 1.8 0.8 10 6 0
2022 2.5 1.4 11 7 0
2021 0.8 0.5 2 4 0
2020 1.6 0.9 9 4 0
2017 2.8 1.5 12 10 0
2016 2.7 2.4 19 5 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311615 · GA · Ellijay

509 Chickens, slaughtering and dressing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 14,941 rated employers in Georgia with headcount on file · 23 employers in Ellijay, GA · 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 Ambassador Sanitation Management @ Wayne Farms Enterprise 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR GC8 Industrial Dr, Gold Creek Processing, LLC. 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR HVFG 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alatrade Foods Inc - Albertville 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Shire Georgia 829 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6061 829 FTE
STATE-SIZE GA - USPS Fairburn9 828 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mimedx Group, Inc 827 FTE
CITY-NEAR HMS 199 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ellijay Telephone 158 FTE
CITY-NEAR Whitepath Fab Tech 156 FTE
CITY-NEAR Store 409 154 FTE
NAT-TCR Forshaw Inc 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Houston Establishment 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR SiteOne Landscape Supply #186 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Celina 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Grayling 829 FTE
NAT-SIZE Syracuse 829 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stonecroft Transportation Center 829 FTE
NAT-SIZE B09 829 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.