Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing · Minnesota

Barrett Petfood Innovations Brainerd

Brainerd, MN · ~254 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.8
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Barrett Petfood Innovations Brainerd runs at 252% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Barrett Petfood Innovations Brainerd: 9.8 TCR = 252% of Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Barrett Petfood Innovations Brainerd safety composite

Barrett Petfood Innovations Brainerd scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 5%), 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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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

Barrett Petfood Innovations Brainerd: 9.2 → 10.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 10.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.98× in 2024

Barrett Petfood Innovations Brainerd's TCR rose 1.2 from 9.2 in 2023 to 10.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.98× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311111 · Brainerd, MN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 9.8 · 252% of ind

  • DART 9.6 DART
  • RANK #10/12
  • PHOTO Highland
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 43 inj
  • SIZE ~254 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Highland (0.0 TCR gap)

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Barrett Petfood Innovations Brainerd in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Barrett Petfood Innovations Brainerd averages 9.8 TCR (252% 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

Barrett Petfood Innovations Brainerd TCR series: 2023=9.2 · 2024=10.4 · BLS 3.9

Where Barrett Petfood Innovations Brainerd falls in its industry

302 Pet food, dog and cat, manufac establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 12 Pet food, dog and cat, manufac employers in Minnesota.

Barrett Petfood Innovations Brainerd (254 employees, TCR 9.8) 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 024681012 Average employees Total Case Rate Barrett Petfood Innovations Brainerd
Barrett Petfood Innovations Brainerd (254 employees, TCR 9.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 103 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Barrett Petfood Innovations Brainerd 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
2024 10.4 9.6 13 0 0
2023 9.2 7.1 30 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311111 · MN · Brainerd

302 Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 75 employers in Brainerd, MN · 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 Highland 9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Evergood Sausage Co 9.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Darling Ingredients Inc. 9.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Newport 9.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE UPM - Blandin Paper 254 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3212 St Paul Box Board Mill 254 FTE
STATE-SIZE Maple Grove - Main Store 254 FTE
STATE-SIZE 0005 - Bloomington 79th and Penn 254 FTE
CITY-NEAR St Josephs Medical Center 1,012 FTE
CITY-NEAR Crow Wing County 522 FTE
CITY-NEAR Madden's on Gull Lake 262 FTE
CITY-NEAR Central Lakes Colloege - Brainerd and Staples Campuses 258 FTE
NAT-TCR Incen - Centerville 9.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Anchor Bay at East Providence 9.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Sonesta Select Boston Foxborough 9.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Kitchen Kompact, Inc. 9.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Rich Products New Britain 254 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lakeside Center for Rehabilitation and Healing 254 FTE
NAT-SIZE Headquarters 254 FTE
NAT-SIZE Anchor Glass Container 254 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. 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.