Poultry (e.g., canned, cooked, fresh, frozen) manufacturing · Mississippi

Southern Hens, Inc. SP

Moselle, MS · ~242 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Southern Hens, Inc. SP runs at 143% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Poultry (e.g., canned, cooked, fresh, frozen) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Southern Hens, Inc. SP: 4.7 TCR = 143% of Poultry (e.g., canned, cooked, fresh, frozen) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Southern Hens, Inc. SP safety composite

Southern Hens, Inc. SP scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 30%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 54% 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

−0.6

2020→2021

Southern Hens, Inc. SP injury rate improved

Southern Hens, Inc. SP's TCR fell 0.6 from 5.0 in 2020 to 4.4 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 5.0 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.52× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=5.0 · 2021=4.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311615 · Moselle, MS ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.7 · 143% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK #32/41
  • PHOTO Empire Kosher Poultr…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~242 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Empire Kosher Poultry Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Southern Hens, Inc. SP in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Southern Hens, Inc. SP averages 4.7 TCR (143% of the Poultry (e.g., canned, cooked, fresh, frozen) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Southern Hens, Inc. SP TCR series: 2020=5 · 2021=4.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Southern Hens, Inc. SP falls in its industry

509 Poultry (e.g., canned, cooked, establishments

Safer than 33% 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 #32 safest of 41 Poultry (e.g., canned, cooked, employers in Mississippi.

Southern Hens, Inc. SP (242 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 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 05001,0001,5002,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Southern Hens, Inc. SP
Southern Hens, Inc. SP (242 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Southern Hens, Inc. SP has fewer employees than the Poultry (e.g., canned, cooked, fresh, fr median and a higher 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
2021 4.4 2.5 9 0 0
2020 5.0 3.5 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311615 · MS · Moselle

509 Poultry (e.g., canned, cooked, fresh, frozen) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,083 rated employers in Mississippi with headcount on file · 13 employers in Moselle, 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 Empire Kosher Poultry Inc 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR PILGRIMS COLD SPRING - JFC- LLC 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Washington Plant 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Best Dressed Chicken Inc. 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE WM 954 242 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ergon, Inc. - Mirror Lake 242 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southwire Company Starkville Plant 241 FTE
STATE-SIZE 707 241 FTE
CITY-NEAR Southern Hens, Inc. KP 359 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kill Plant 326 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cook Plant 270 FTE
CITY-NEAR Southern Hens, Inc. CP 159 FTE
NAT-TCR Famous Dave's - Highland Park 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Larson Tool 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Valley Produce Harvesting, Inc. 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 113089-Fmy-Main Post Office Sta 4.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE GF Linamar, LLC 242 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lumentum 80 Rose Orchard 242 FTE
NAT-SIZE Empire Acero 242 FTE
NAT-SIZE Eastview Elementary 242 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. 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.