Poultry Hatcheries · Mississippi

Sanderson Farms Hazlehurst Hatchery

Hazlehurst, MS · ~51 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sanderson Farms Hazlehurst Hatchery runs at 98% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Poultry Hatcheries workplace, earning a grade C.

Sanderson Farms Hazlehurst Hatchery: 4.4 TCR = 98% of Poultry Hatcheries BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sanderson Farms Hazlehurst Hatchery safety composite

Sanderson Farms Hazlehurst Hatchery scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 43%), 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

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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

−9.5

2019→2024

Sanderson Farms Hazlehurst Hatchery injury rate improved

Sanderson Farms Hazlehurst Hatchery's TCR fell 9.5 from 9.5 in 2019 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 9.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=9.5 · 2020=7.3 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=5.8 · 2023=3.8 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 112340 · Hazlehurst, MS AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.4 · 98% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #15/20
  • PHOTO Barron Hatchery
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~51 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Barron Hatchery (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sanderson Farms Hazlehurst Hatchery in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sanderson Farms Hazlehurst Hatchery averages 4.4 TCR (98% of the Poultry Hatcheries BLS benchmark).

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

Sanderson Farms Hazlehurst Hatchery TCR series: 2019=9.5 · 2020=7.3 · 2021=0 · 2022=5.8 · 2023=3.8 · 2024=0 · BLS 4.5

Where Sanderson Farms Hazlehurst Hatchery falls in its industry

197 Poultry Hatcheries establishments

Safer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Mississippi alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 20 Poultry Hatcheries employers in Mississippi.

Sanderson Farms Hazlehurst Hatchery (51 employees, TCR 4.4) 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 Sanderson Farms Hazlehurst Hatchery
Sanderson Farms Hazlehurst Hatchery (51 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Sanderson Farms Hazlehurst Hatchery has more 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 3.8 1.9 2 0 0
2022 5.8 3.9 3 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 7.3 7.3 2 0 0
2019 9.5 6.3 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112340 · MS · Hazlehurst

197 Poultry Hatcheries 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 Barron Hatchery 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hatchery (Quitman) 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hatchery (Watertown) 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR EMV INC 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Substation Construction 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE D.N.P.,INC. 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southern Rock, LLC 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Desoto Treated Materials 51 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 Lakeshore Fittings 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Es-Seton Mc Hays 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Greenville NC FXFE-GVN 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Stericycle - West Columbia,SC 4.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Bossier City 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Sebastian River Es 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Crofton, MD 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Inca Dover 51 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.

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

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.