Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing · Kansas

Ainsworth Pet Nutrition Frontenac

Frontenac, KS · ~192 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.8
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ainsworth Pet Nutrition Frontenac runs at 150% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Ainsworth Pet Nutrition Frontenac: 5.8 TCR = 150% of Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ainsworth Pet Nutrition Frontenac safety composite

Ainsworth Pet Nutrition Frontenac scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 25%), 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 5.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% 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

Ainsworth Pet Nutrition Frontenac: 5.6 → 6.1 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 6.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.63× in 2018

Ainsworth Pet Nutrition Frontenac's TCR rose 0.6 from 5.6 in 2016 to 6.1 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.63× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311111 · Frontenac, KS ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.8 · 150% of ind

  • DART 3.7 DART
  • RANK #21/23
  • PHOTO United Pet Food Manu…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~192 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: United Pet Food Manufacturing, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ainsworth Pet Nutrition Frontenac in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ainsworth Pet Nutrition Frontenac averages 5.8 TCR (150% of the Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Ainsworth Pet Nutrition Frontenac TCR series: 2016=5.6 · 2018=6.1 · BLS 3.9

Where Ainsworth Pet Nutrition Frontenac falls in its industry

302 Pet food, dog and cat, manufac establishments

Safer than 25% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #21 safest of 23 Pet food, dog and cat, manufac employers in Kansas.

Ainsworth Pet Nutrition Frontenac (192 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 103 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 0200400600 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Ainsworth Pet Nutrition Frontenac
Ainsworth Pet Nutrition Frontenac (192 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 103 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Ainsworth Pet Nutrition Frontenac has more employees than the Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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
2018 6.1 3.7 5 0 0
2016 5.6 3.9 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311111 · KS · Frontenac

302 Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 11 employers in Frontenac, KS · 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 United Pet Food Manufacturing, LLC 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Freshpet Kitchens Plant 1 and 2 - Bethlehem 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR LinkOne Potato Solutions, LLC Burley 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sensenig's Feed Mill 5.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Delmar Gardens of Lenexa 192 FTE
STATE-SIZE SODEXO AT HCA-WESLEY MEDICAL CENTER FOOD 192 FTE
STATE-SIZE LaCygne Energy Center 193 FTE
STATE-SIZE Topeka Operations Center 191 FTE
CITY-NEAR Frontenc 659 FTE
CITY-NEAR Frontenac, KS 583 FTE
CITY-NEAR Big Heart Pet Brands, Inc. - Frontenac 198 FTE
CITY-NEAR Diamond Pet Foods - Frontenac 197 FTE
NAT-TCR Shepherdsville Dist Ctr 10360 (Kyspl) 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR N and R of Christian Republic LLC 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR UG2 - 595 - TD Garden (MA) 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Enterprise 45V3 5.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE TriMet Elmonica Operations Facility 192 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hackleburg 192 FTE
NAT-SIZE Carlisle Hib (Pacas) 192 FTE
NAT-SIZE Federal Mogul Motorparts - Boaz 192 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: 2018, 2016. 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.