Poultry Hatcheries · Tennessee

Shelbyville Hatchery

Decherd, TN · ~37 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Shelbyville Hatchery runs at 141% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Poultry Hatcheries workplace, earning a grade D.

Shelbyville Hatchery: 6.3 TCR = 141% of Poultry Hatcheries BLS 4.5 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Shelbyville Hatchery safety composite

Shelbyville Hatchery scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 24%), 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)
F 6.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% 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%).

Shelbyville Hatchery held a steady TCR band

Shelbyville Hatchery's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 16.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=0.0 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=3.0 · 2020=15.0 · 2021=6.4 · 2022=10.2 · 2023=16.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 112340 · Decherd, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.3 · 141% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/6
  • PHOTO Hatchery
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~37 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hatchery (0.0 TCR gap)

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Shelbyville Hatchery in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Shelbyville Hatchery averages 6.3 TCR (141% of the Poultry Hatcheries BLS benchmark).

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

Shelbyville Hatchery TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=3 · 2020=15 · 2021=6.4 · 2022=10.2 · 2023=16 · 2024=0 · BLS 4.5

Where Shelbyville Hatchery falls in its industry

197 Poultry Hatcheries establishments

Safer than 24% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 6 Poultry Hatcheries employers in Tennessee.

Shelbyville Hatchery (37 employees, TCR 6.3) 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 Shelbyville Hatchery
Shelbyville Hatchery (37 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Shelbyville Hatchery has fewer 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 16.0 12.8 1 4 0
2022 10.2 10.2 1 2 0
2021 6.4 6.4 1 1 0
2020 15.0 15.0 0 5 0
2019 3.0 3.0 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112340 · TN · Decherd

197 Poultry Hatcheries employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 9 employers in Decherd, TN · 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 Hatchery 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stilwell Hatchery (Noel) 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Temperanceville Hatchery 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sanderson Farms Laurel Hatchery 6.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Dyersburg Electric System 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corp 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE RFW CONSTRUCTION GROUP 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE BluSky Restoration Contractors Memphis 37 FTE
CITY-NEAR Decherd Powertrain Assembly 1,738 FTE
CITY-NEAR Yates Services, LLC @ Nissan (Decherd) 446 FTE
CITY-NEAR Infiniti Engine Plant - Decherd 348 FTE
CITY-NEAR 026-00503 102 FTE
NAT-TCR Dennie Manning Concrete Inc 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR All Counties Glass-N 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Island Lane Day Program 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Prescription Landscape - Shakopee Office 6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Joslin Freezer 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Housing Commission 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Farm 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Womack Construction 37 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. 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.