Egg production, chicken · Texas

Sandy Fork

Harwood, TX · ~21 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sandy Fork runs at 60% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Egg production, chicken workplace, earning a grade B.

Sandy Fork: 2.7 TCR = 60% of Egg production, chicken BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sandy Fork safety composite

Sandy Fork scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 76% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 17%), 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

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Sandy Fork: 4.3 → 5.8 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 5.8 TCR · DART/TCR 2.16× in 2021

Sandy Fork's TCR rose 1.5 from 4.3 in 2016 to 5.8 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 2.16× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 112310 · Harwood, TX AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.7 · 60% of ind

  • DART 5.8 DART
  • RANK #12/26
  • PHOTO Midwest Poultry Serv…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Midwest Poultry Services - Corporate Office (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sandy Fork in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sandy Fork averages 2.7 TCR (60% of the Egg production, chicken BLS benchmark).

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

Sandy Fork TCR series: 2016=4.3 · 2017=3.2 · 2018=0 · 2019=2.8 · 2020=0 · 2021=5.8 · BLS 4.5

Where Sandy Fork falls in its industry

351 Egg production, chicken establishments

Safer than 76% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 26 Egg production, chicken employers in Texas.

Sandy Fork (21 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 5.1 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 0100200300400500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Sandy Fork
Sandy Fork (21 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Sandy Fork has fewer employees than the Egg production, chicken median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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
2021 5.8 5.8 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 2.8 2.8 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 3.2 3.2 1 0 0
2016 4.3 4.3 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112310 · TX · Harwood

351 Egg production, chicken 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 Midwest Poultry Services - Corporate Office 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Opal-Foods School Farm 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Waialua Fresh 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cal-Maine Foods Inc. Conventional 2.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Grass Roots Farming LLC. 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dawn Cattle Feeders 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Twin Lakes Dairy LP 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE SEABOARD FOODS LP TEXAS MAINT 21 FTE
CITY-NEAR Happy Hen Harwood 28 FTE
NAT-TCR Speed Global Services 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR USCS- Harrisonburg, VA 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR CHR- Center Street 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR T&D Thompson 2.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE East Coast Terminal Co 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Granger Plastics Company 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Donley Group 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE 044 Aventura Gallery 21 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: 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.