Animal hospitals · Ohio

Best Friends Veterinary Hospital

Powell, OH · ~20 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
17.8
Avg TCR
0.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Best Friends Veterinary Hospital runs at 3552% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Animal hospitals workplace, earning a grade F.

Best Friends Veterinary Hospital: 17.8 TCR = 3552% of Animal hospitals BLS 0.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Best Friends Veterinary Hospital safety composite

Best Friends Veterinary Hospital scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 72% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 17.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Best Friends Veterinary Hospital: 16.4 → 19.2 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 19.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2023

Best Friends Veterinary Hospital's TCR rose 2.8 from 16.4 in 2018 to 19.2 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 541940 · Powell, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 17.8 · 3552% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #10/10
  • PHOTO Lakefield Veterinary…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lakefield Veterinary Group - 126 (0.1 TCR gap)

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Best Friends Veterinary Hospital in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Best Friends Veterinary Hospital averages 17.8 TCR (3552% of the Animal hospitals BLS benchmark).

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

Best Friends Veterinary Hospital TCR series: 2018=16.4 · 2023=19.2 · BLS 0.5

Where Best Friends Veterinary Hospital falls in its industry

261 Animal hospitals establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 12.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 10 Animal hospitals employers in Ohio.

Best Friends Veterinary Hospital (20 employees, TCR 17.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 42 employees and a TCR of 12.0 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 0100200300400 010203040 Average employees Total Case Rate Best Friends Veterinary Hospital
Best Friends Veterinary Hospital (20 employees, TCR 17.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 42 employees and a TCR of 12.0

Best Friends Veterinary Hospital has fewer employees than the Animal hospitals median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 12.0. 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
2023 19.2 0.0 3 0 0
2018 16.4 0.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

541940 · OH · Powell

261 Animal hospitals employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 21 employers in Powell, OH · 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 Lakefield Veterinary Group - 126 17.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mauer Animal Clinic 17.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lakefield Veterinary Group - 145 17.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lakefield Veterinary Group - 103 18.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Nature Pure Farm 1 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Foundry Sand Service LLC 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Carroll County Energy LLC 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE NAES : NTE Middletown 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR LeaderStat 504 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2851 - Powell 194 FTE
CITY-NEAR Giant Eagle #6527 193 FTE
CITY-NEAR Liberty Township/Powell YMCA 188 FTE
NAT-TCR Rose Court Assisted Living 17.8 TCR
NAT-TCR City Aluminum Foundry Co. 17.8 TCR
NAT-TCR MKE - Ground Ops 17.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Caang - Angels Camp 17.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE General Pet - Wichita 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE West Rock Shop 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Watertown Lodging Associates, LLC 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE SEGA Ready Mix 20 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: 2023, 2018. 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.