Poultry Hatcheries · Alabama

Sand Mountain Hatchery

Albertville, AL · ~26 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Sand Mountain Hatchery runs at 177% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Poultry Hatcheries workplace, earning a grade D.

Sand Mountain Hatchery: 8.0 TCR = 177% of Poultry Hatcheries BLS 4.5 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sand Mountain Hatchery safety composite

Sand Mountain Hatchery scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 1%), 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).

F

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 1% 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%).

Sand Mountain Hatchery held a steady TCR band

Sand Mountain Hatchery's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 17.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=0.0 · 2018=7.5 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=15.5 · 2021=17.0 · 2022=15.9 · 2023=8.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 112340 · Albertville, AL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 8.0 · 177% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #22/23
  • PHOTO Blairsville Hatchery
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Blairsville Hatchery (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sand Mountain Hatchery in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sand Mountain Hatchery averages 8.0 TCR (177% of the Poultry Hatcheries BLS benchmark).

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

Sand Mountain Hatchery TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=7.5 · 2019=0 · 2020=15.5 · 2021=17 · 2022=15.9 · 2023=8 · 2024=0 · BLS 4.5

Where Sand Mountain Hatchery falls in its industry

197 Poultry Hatcheries establishments

Safer than 14% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #22 safest of 23 Poultry Hatcheries employers in Alabama.

Sand Mountain Hatchery (26 employees, TCR 8.0) 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 Sand Mountain Hatchery
Sand Mountain Hatchery (26 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Sand Mountain Hatchery has fewer employees than the Poultry 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 8.0 0.0 0 2 0
2022 15.9 15.9 0 5 0
2021 17.0 13.6 0 5 1
2020 15.5 15.5 0 4 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 7.5 0.0 1 1 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112340 · AL · Albertville

197 Poultry Hatcheries employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 69 employers in Albertville, AL · 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 Blairsville Hatchery 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tennessee Hatchery 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Case Farms winesburg hatchery 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Camilla Hatchery 7.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Unlimited Contract Services Robertsdale 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mar-Jac Poultry AL, LLC Hatchery 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ashland Breeder and Broiler Dept 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Industree Logging Inc. 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR Albertville processing plant 910 FTE
CITY-NEAR Albertville Plant 890 FTE
CITY-NEAR Alatrade Foods Inc - Albertville 711 FTE
CITY-NEAR Alatrade - Albertville 685 FTE
NAT-TCR Scott Smith Roofing Inc 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Mission Mechanical -- Alexandria Location 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR R & M Steel Company 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Group Five Management 8.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Tennessee Farms 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hope Growout 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Green Forest Hatchery 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Center Hatchery 26 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, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.