Poultry Feed Mill · Mississippi

Sanderson Farms Hazlehurst Feed Mill

Hazlehurst, MS · ~28 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

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

Sanderson Farms Hazlehurst Feed Mill runs at 85% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Poultry Feed Mill workplace, earning a grade C.

Sanderson Farms Hazlehurst Feed Mill: 3.3 TCR = 85% of Poultry Feed Mill BLS 3.9 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sanderson Farms Hazlehurst Feed Mill safety composite

Sanderson Farms Hazlehurst Feed Mill scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 40%), 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).

D

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% 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%).

TCR Δ

−8.2

2019→2024

Sanderson Farms Hazlehurst Feed Mill injury rate improved

Sanderson Farms Hazlehurst Feed Mill's TCR fell 8.2 from 10.5 in 2019 to 2.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 10.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.71× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=10.5 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=7.1 · 2024=2.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311119 · Hazlehurst, MS AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.3 · 85% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK #16/23
  • PHOTO ProTrition Jackson F…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ProTrition Jackson Feed mill (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sanderson Farms Hazlehurst Feed Mill in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sanderson Farms Hazlehurst Feed Mill averages 3.3 TCR (85% 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 Hazlehurst Feed Mill TCR series: 2019=10.5 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=7.1 · 2024=2.4 · BLS 3.9

Where Sanderson Farms Hazlehurst Feed Mill falls in its industry

756 Poultry Feed Mill establishments

Safer than 53% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Mississippi alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 23 Poultry Feed Mill employers in Mississippi.

Sanderson Farms Hazlehurst Feed Mill (28 employees, TCR 3.3) 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 Hazlehurst Feed Mill
Sanderson Farms Hazlehurst Feed Mill (28 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Sanderson Farms Hazlehurst Feed Mill has fewer 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 2.4 2.4 1 0 0
2023 7.1 7.1 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 10.5 10.5 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311119 · MS · Hazlehurst

756 Poultry Feed Mill employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,083 rated employers in Mississippi with headcount on file · 16 employers in Hazlehurst, MS · 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 ProTrition Jackson Feed mill 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Spokane Purina Feed Mill 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR BP Mill, LLLP 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Talladega Feedmill 3.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hi Grade Gin Corporation 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Attala Power Plant 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pascagoula Service Center 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Master Craft Builders, Inc. 28 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sanderson Farms Hazlehurst Processing 603 FTE
CITY-NEAR DG Foods Hazelhurst 373 FTE
CITY-NEAR DG Foods 326 FTE
CITY-NEAR DG Foods, LLC Hazlehurst 323 FTE
NAT-TCR Kaiser Aluminum 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Franz Family Bakeries Bellingham 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR TAMU Galveston Jn 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR CMA Catering 3.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Burkey Corporation 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Qrp - Wbd 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Cmmc Bridgton Hospital Evs 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pasco Transportation 28 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.