Poultry Feed Mill · Texas

Sanderson Farms Brazos Feed Mill

Franklin, TX · ~59 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.7
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sanderson Farms Brazos Feed Mill runs at 69% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Poultry Feed Mill workplace, earning a grade B.

Sanderson Farms Brazos Feed Mill: 2.7 TCR = 69% of Poultry Feed Mill BLS 3.9 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sanderson Farms Brazos Feed Mill safety composite

Sanderson Farms Brazos Feed Mill scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 62% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 49%), 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

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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%).

Sanderson Farms Brazos Feed Mill held a steady TCR band

Sanderson Farms Brazos Feed Mill's TCR held near 0.1 from 1.5 in 2016 to 1.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 4.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.51× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.5 · 2017=4.8 · 2018=4.5 · 2019=3.1 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=4.6 · 2022=2.8 · 2023=1.5 · 2024=1.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311119 · Franklin, TX AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.7 · 69% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #32/51
  • PHOTO Ridley Block Operati…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~59 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ridley Block Operations - Flemingsburg (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sanderson Farms Brazos Feed Mill in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sanderson Farms Brazos Feed Mill averages 2.7 TCR (69% of the Poultry Feed Mill BLS benchmark).

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

Sanderson Farms Brazos Feed Mill TCR series: 2016=1.5 · 2017=4.8 · 2018=4.5 · 2019=3.1 · 2020=0 · 2021=4.6 · 2022=2.8 · 2023=1.5 · 2024=1.4 · BLS 3.9

Where Sanderson Farms Brazos Feed Mill falls in its industry

756 Poultry Feed Mill establishments

Safer than 62% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #32 safest of 51 Poultry Feed Mill employers in Texas.

Sanderson Farms Brazos Feed Mill (59 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 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 050100150200 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Sanderson Farms Brazos Feed Mill
Sanderson Farms Brazos Feed Mill (59 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Sanderson Farms Brazos Feed Mill has more employees than the Poultry Feed Mill 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 1.4 1 0 0
2023 1.5 1.5 0 1 0
2022 2.8 2.8 2 0 0
2021 4.6 3.1 2 1 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 3.1 0.0 0 2 0
2018 4.5 1.5 3 0 0
2017 4.8 4.8 3 0 0
2016 1.5 1.5 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311119 · TX · Franklin

756 Poultry Feed Mill employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 9 employers in Franklin, TX · 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 Ridley Block Operations - Flemingsburg 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Poinciana-Kissimmee 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Live Turkey - Dayton VA Feed Mill 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cargill Animal Nutrition - New Richland 2.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Omega Protein INC. 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corteva Plainview SPSC 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE Beckville Mine 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE NRG - T.H. Wharton 59 FTE
CITY-NEAR Oak Grove Steam Electric Station 163 FTE
CITY-NEAR Power Oak Grove 84 FTE
CITY-NEAR Oak Grove 79 FTE
CITY-NEAR Franklin Nursing Home 78 FTE
NAT-TCR Hester Decorating Co., Inc. 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR J2 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Key Knife 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Campbell Construction Inc. 2.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Keefe Michigan 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cambria FabShop Indianapolis LLC 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hanul Corp. (210-Little Ferry-NJ) 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Penny Plate - Missouri 59 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, 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.