Poultry Feed Mill · Texas

Sanderson Farms Palestine Feed Mill

Oakwood, TX · ~57 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.2
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sanderson Farms Palestine Feed Mill runs at 56% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Poultry Feed Mill workplace, earning a grade B.

Sanderson Farms Palestine Feed Mill: 2.2 TCR = 56% of Poultry Feed Mill BLS 3.9 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sanderson Farms Palestine Feed Mill safety composite

Sanderson Farms Palestine Feed Mill scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 72% 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

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.36 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.2

2016→2024

Sanderson Farms Palestine Feed Mill injury rate improved

Sanderson Farms Palestine Feed Mill's TCR fell 2.2 from 3.5 in 2016 to 1.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 6.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.62× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.5 · 2017=1.6 · 2018=3.2 · 2019=1.6 · 2020=1.6 · 2021=6.7 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=1.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade B · TCR 2.2 · 56% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #23/51
  • PHOTO Famo Feeds, Inc.
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~57 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Famo Feeds, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sanderson Farms Palestine Feed Mill in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sanderson Farms Palestine Feed Mill averages 2.2 TCR (56% 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 Palestine Feed Mill TCR series: 2016=3.5 · 2017=1.6 · 2018=3.2 · 2019=1.6 · 2020=1.6 · 2021=6.7 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=1.4 · BLS 3.9

Where Sanderson Farms Palestine Feed Mill falls in its industry

756 Poultry Feed Mill establishments

Safer than 72% 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 #23 safest of 51 Poultry Feed Mill employers in Texas.

Sanderson Farms Palestine Feed Mill (57 employees, TCR 2.2) 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 Palestine Feed Mill
Sanderson Farms Palestine Feed Mill (57 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Sanderson Farms Palestine 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 6.7 5.0 4 0 0
2020 1.6 1.6 1 0 0
2019 1.6 1.6 1 0 0
2018 3.2 1.6 2 0 0
2017 1.6 1.6 1 0 0
2016 3.5 3.5 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311119 · TX · Oakwood

756 Poultry Feed Mill employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 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 Famo Feeds, Inc. 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Laurel feed mill 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cargill SSTNA Bovina 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sanderson Farms Collins Feed Mill 2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sanderson Farms Tyler Hatchery 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sanderson Farms Waco Hatchery 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cooper Natural Resources Cedar Lake location 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE CKJ Transport - Energy Services 57 FTE
NAT-TCR J.M. Canty, Inc. 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR FLA 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Willamina - WP 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Evanston Yard 146 2.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Towpath 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bailey Manufacturing Co., LLC. 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Romanoff Heating & Cooling - Columbus 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Automation IG 57 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.

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

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