Poultry Hatcheries · Tennessee

Tennessee Hatchery

Lafayette, TN · ~47 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Tennessee Hatchery runs at 178% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Poultry Hatcheries workplace, earning a grade D.

Tennessee Hatchery: 8.0 TCR = 178% of Poultry Hatcheries BLS 4.5 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tennessee Hatchery safety composite

Tennessee Hatchery scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 14%), 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).

F

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% 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%).

Tennessee Hatchery held a steady TCR band

Tennessee Hatchery's TCR held near 0.2 from 2.4 in 2017 to 2.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 17.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.28× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=2.4 · 2018=4.3 · 2019=4.2 · 2020=17.5 · 2021=15.4 · 2022=16.0 · 2023=2.2 · 2024=2.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 8.0 · 178% of ind

  • DART 2.2 DART
  • RANK #4/6
  • PHOTO Sand Mountain Hatchery
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~47 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sand Mountain Hatchery (0.1 TCR gap)

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Tennessee Hatchery in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Tennessee Hatchery averages 8.0 TCR (178% of the Poultry Hatcheries BLS benchmark).

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

Tennessee Hatchery TCR series: 2017=2.4 · 2018=4.3 · 2019=4.2 · 2020=17.5 · 2021=15.4 · 2022=16 · 2023=2.2 · 2024=2.2 · BLS 4.5

Where Tennessee Hatchery falls in its industry

197 Poultry Hatcheries establishments

Safer than 14% 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 #4 safest of 6 Poultry Hatcheries employers in Tennessee.

Tennessee Hatchery (47 employees, TCR 8.0) 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 Tennessee Hatchery
Tennessee Hatchery (47 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Tennessee 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 2.2 2.2 1 0 0
2023 2.2 0.0 0 1 0
2022 16.0 16.0 0 7 0
2021 15.4 15.4 0 7 0
2020 17.5 17.5 0 8 0
2019 4.2 0.0 2 0 0
2018 4.3 2.2 2 0 0
2017 2.4 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112340 · TN · Lafayette

197 Poultry Hatcheries employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 14 employers in Lafayette, 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 Sand Mountain Hatchery 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Blairsville Hatchery 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Case Farms winesburg hatchery 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Richmond Hatchery 8.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Proton Power Inc. 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE BAE Analytical Lab 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE SC420 - Nashville 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE G&G Rebar, Inc. 47 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 879 274 FTE
CITY-NEAR 879 256 FTE
CITY-NEAR LAFAYETTE 200 FTE
CITY-NEAR flex technologies 108 FTE
NAT-TCR Santa Fe Springs 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Mesick 113 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Suja Life, LLC 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Bingham and Taylor Corporation 8.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE BR15 Salinas 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Administration Building 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Contri Construction Company 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE California Heritage Mills, Inc 47 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.