Industry profile · NAICS 424440

Poultry, live and dressed, merchant wholesalers

Workplace injury rates across 49 OSHA-reporting establishments in this industry, 2016–2024.

49
Employers
6.0
Avg TCR
2.2
BLS benchmark
1,041
Injuries

The industry picture

Employers in Poultry, live and dressed, merchant wholesalers average 6.0 recordable injuries per 100 workers, 2.7 times the BLS national benchmark of 2.2.

6.0
avg TCR · reporting employers
2.2
BLS national benchmark
49
employers reporting
1,041
recordable injuries

OSHA-reporting establishments skew toward larger, higher-hazard sites, so the reporting average runs above the BLS all-establishment benchmark.

What Poultry, live and dressed, merchant wholesalers Safety Data Reveals

The Poultry, live and dressed, merchant wholesalers sector (NAICS 424440) encompasses 49 distinct employer establishments currently reporting to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Across this cohort, workers have logged 1,041 recordable injuries during the 2016–2024 reporting window, producing an industry-weighted average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 6.0 injuries per 100 full-time workers per year. Because OSHA's ITA mandates submission from establishments with 250+ employees plus all high-hazard industries at 20+ employees, this dataset represents a structural slice of U.S. workplace risk rather than a voluntary sample.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes a separate national benchmark TCR of 2.2 for this NAICS code, derived from the BLS Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses. Comparing the two, the ITA-reported rate of 6.0 is higher than the BLS benchmark, a gap that typically widens when the industry contains many large, high-exposure establishments required to file ITA reports. Employers in the table below are sorted so you can see how far individual establishments deviate from both the industry average and the national benchmark.

The practical value of industry-level safety data is threefold. First, jobseekers can gauge whether a prospective employer is better or worse than its industry peers, not just absolute injury counts, which tilt toward larger payrolls. Second, insurers and workers' compensation carriers use sector TCR as a baseline for experience-modification adjustments. Third, safety professionals benchmark their own programs against the cohort median. Use the grade-sorted employer list below to identify specific establishments within Poultry, live and dressed, merchant wholesalers that outperform or underperform the sector average, and click through to each record for year-by-year injury, illness, and fatality breakdowns.

Employers in this industry, by injury rate

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Employer LocationGradeAvg TCR
Kelly's Foods Concepts Forest Park, GA F 20.7
Kelly's Logistics Inc. Tampa, FL F 19.5
Plymouth - Auburn Auburn, WA F 14.3
Happy Hen Corp Urbancrest, OH F 11.9
Plainville Farms Processing Plant New Oxford, PA F 10.9
Rogers Poultry Los Angeles, CA F 10.5
MB Consultants LTD South Fallsburg, NY F 8.7
Pete and Gerry's Organics Monroe Monroe, NH F 8.6
Southeast Poulty Rogers, AR F 8.3
Dudley Poultry Company Inc. Middlesex, NY F 8.0
Kelly's Foods Winter Garden, FL F 7.9
Turner Turner, ME F 7.6
Kelly's Logistics Winter Garden Winter Garden, FL F 7.5
R.W. Zant - Commodity Los Angeles, CA F 7.3
Spectrum Foods, Inc. Landover, MD F 7.1
Hillandale Farms Conn. LLC Turner, ME F 6.8
Gemstone Foods Plant 2-01 Decatur, AL F 6.7
Buffum Monroe, NH F 6.6
Pete and Gerry's Organics Greencastle Greencastle, PA F 6.4
Sherwood Foods- Markham Markham, IL F 6.1
C.B. Nichols Egg Ranch.Inc. DBA Chino Valley ranchers Colton, CA F 5.7
Gingrich Animal Supply, Inc. Fredericksburg, PA F 5.6
Nealey Foods Inc Chicago, IL F 5.4
Sherwood Foods-Detroit Detroit, MI F 5.3
Los Angeles Poultry Co Inc Los Angeles, CA F 5.3
Egg Central Station Springfield, MO F 5.3
Kelly's Foods Transportation- Georgia Forest Park, GA F 4.7
Plainville Farms Distribution Center New Oxford, PA D 4.2
Twin Valley Farms Exchange, Inc. Hegins, PA D 3.9
Pete and Gerry's Organics GA Gainesville, GA D 3.6
McAfee Packing Co., Inc Wrightsville, GA D 3.4
Mid-States Specialty Eggs of Middlebury Middlebury, IN D 3.4
Prime Source Foods Londonderry, NH D 3.4
Kelly's Foods Winter Garden Winter Garden, FL D 3.2
Triple J Farms Sonora, CA D 3.0
Mar-Jac Poultry Distribution Center Birmingham, AL D 2.9
Pete and Gerry's Organics AR Summers, AR D 2.9
Gemstone Foods Plant 2 - 01 Decatur, AL D 2.8
Gemstone Foods Plant 1 - 02 Decatur, AL C 1.9
Sea Breeze Food Service, INC Jacksonville, FL C 1.9
Farbest Farms Jasper, IN B 1.7
Kelly's Foods Concepts - Georgia Forest Park, GA B 1.4
Pierce Egg Company Colton, CA B 1.1
The Roost Austin, TX A 0.6
Hain Pure Protein Distribution Center New Oxford, PA A 0.3
Mid-States Specialty Eggs, Berryville Berryville, AR A 0.3
Mid-States Specialty Eggs, Smithton Smithton, MO C 0.0
Pete and Gerry's Organic Salem Salem, NH C 0.0
Critchfield Meats, Inc Lexington, KY C 0.0

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This sector averages 6.0 against a BLS benchmark of 2.2 - but individual employers span the full A-to-F range.

Sector figures use the credible-subset mean across reporting employers; a benchmark is not any single establishment's measured rate.

Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.