Poultry Processing · Mississippi

Sanderson Farms Collins Processing

Collins, MS · ~1,209 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities

The verdict

Sanderson Farms Collins Processing runs at 118% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Poultry Processing workplace, earning a grade C.

C
Average Safety Record
3.9
avg TCR · per 100 workers
3.3
industry benchmark (BLS)
272
recordable injuries tracked

Grade compares Sanderson Farms Collins Processing's OSHA Total Case Rate of 3.9 to the Poultry Processing BLS benchmark of 3.3 (118% of benchmark) across 9 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). <a href="/methodology">See methodology</a> for reporting-limitation caveats.

Injury rate over time

Sanderson Farms Collins Processing's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 3.3 industry benchmark.

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Total Case Rate (recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers), OSHA ITA Form 300A. Industry benchmark: BLS IIF, NAICS 311615.

Where Sanderson Farms Collins Processing falls in its industry

525 Poultry Processing establishments

Safer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Mississippi alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #23 safest of 41 Poultry Processing employers in Mississippi.

Trend analysis for Sanderson Farms Collins Processing

Between 2016 and 2024, Sanderson Farms Collins Processing's Total Case Rate improved from 4.5 to 2.6 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 43% decrease across 8 years of OSHA reporting.

The safest year on record was 2021, at a TCR of 1.9, while 2017 saw the highest rate, at 6.3, a spread of 4.4 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a wide swing relative to the establishment's overall rate, worth checking the year-by-year table below for whether a single severe year is driving the average, rather than a sustained trend.

Summed across those 9 reporting years, Sanderson Farms Collins Processing recorded 272 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 9-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.

Verify This Employer with OSHA

The 272 injuries, 89 illnesses shown on this page for Sanderson Farms Collins Processing are sourced from its own 9 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.

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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 311615 - Poultry Processing.

DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2024)

What is the DART rate formula?

DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.

18 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 2,310,366 hours worked = 1.56 DART

Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping

Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State

Benchmark TCR Source
Sanderson Farms Collins Processing (this establishment) 3.89 OSHA ITA Form 300A, 9-year avg
Chickens, processing, fresh, frozen, canned, or cooked (except baby and pet food) industry avg 3.30 BLS IIF, NAICS 311615
Mississippi state avg (all industries) 3.72 OSHA ITA, state-level rollup

Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program

Reportable Incident Timeline

Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Sanderson Farms Collins Processing to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.

Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2024 2.6 1.6 22 8 0
2023 2.6 1.6 23 5 0
2022 5.8 4.9 48 18 0
2021 1.9 1.8 16 4 0
2020 3.0 2.6 26 7 0
2019 3.3 2.5 27 7 0
2018 5.1 4.5 39 9 0
2017 6.3 5.2 43 18 0
2016 4.5 3.9 28 13 0

What this grade means for you

Use this grade as a relative read on Sanderson Farms Collins Processing's reported OSHA injury record versus its Poultry Processing peers, not a verdict on whether any single site is safe today.

  • At 118% of the Poultry Processing benchmark, Sanderson Farms Collins Processing reports more injuries than typical peers, ask specifically how the employer is reducing them. Know your rights
  • Judge this record against the wider Poultry Processing sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
  • Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another

Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Sanderson Farms Collins Processing's safety grade?
Sanderson Farms Collins Processing has a safety grade of C (Average Safety Record). This grade is based on their average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 3.9 compared to the BLS industry benchmark of 3.3 for Poultry Processing.
How many injuries has Sanderson Farms Collins Processing reported?
Sanderson Farms Collins Processing has reported 272 total injuries and 0 fatalities across 9 years of OSHA data (2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016). This data comes from mandatory OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA) reports.

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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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainSafetyScore Editorial

Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.