Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing · Kansas

Big Heart Pet Brands, Inc. - Frontenac

Frontenac, KS · ~198 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.7
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Big Heart Pet Brands, Inc. - Frontenac runs at 94% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Big Heart Pet Brands, Inc. - Frontenac: 3.7 TCR = 94% of Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Big Heart Pet Brands, Inc. - Frontenac safety composite

Big Heart Pet Brands, Inc. - Frontenac scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 62% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 44%), 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

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% 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

Big Heart Pet Brands, Inc. - Frontenac: 3.0 → 4.3 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 4.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.26× in 2019

Big Heart Pet Brands, Inc. - Frontenac's TCR rose 1.3 from 3.0 in 2018 to 4.3 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.26× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311111 · Frontenac, KS AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.7 · 94% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #15/23
  • PHOTO Gold Star Feed and G…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~198 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Gold Star Feed and Grain, LLC Sangerfield NY (0.0 TCR gap)

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Big Heart Pet Brands, Inc. - Frontenac in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Big Heart Pet Brands, Inc. - Frontenac averages 3.7 TCR (94% of the Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Big Heart Pet Brands, Inc. - Frontenac TCR series: 2018=3 · 2019=4.3 · BLS 3.9

Where Big Heart Pet Brands, Inc. - Frontenac falls in its industry

302 Animal feed mills, dog and cat establishments

Safer than 44% 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 #15 safest of 23 Animal feed mills, dog and cat employers in Kansas.

Big Heart Pet Brands, Inc. - Frontenac (198 employees, TCR 3.7) 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 Big Heart Pet Brands, Inc. - Frontenac
Big Heart Pet Brands, Inc. - Frontenac (198 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 103 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Big Heart Pet Brands, Inc. - Frontenac has more employees than the Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufact 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
2019 4.3 1.0 8 1 0
2018 3.0 1.5 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311111 · KS · Frontenac

302 Animal feed mills, 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 Gold Star Feed and Grain, LLC Sangerfield NY 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR BP10-30 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR BHJ - Logansport 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Flint River Mills- Mill Department 3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Infrasource Construction, LLC - PA only 198 FTE
STATE-SIZE MGPI Processing of Atchison 198 FTE
STATE-SIZE 615-00065 198 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2490 198 FTE
CITY-NEAR Frontenc 659 FTE
CITY-NEAR Frontenac, KS 583 FTE
CITY-NEAR Diamond Pet Foods - Frontenac 197 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ainsworth Pet Nutrition Frontenac 192 FTE
NAT-TCR QSI Fair Oaks West 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Behavioral Heath Works, Anaheim, Inc 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Advanced Disposal - Valdosta Hauling 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR HERO Logistics (SCD) 3.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE 1855-WIMIL29 198 FTE
NAT-SIZE 20 - Orange Avenue 198 FTE
NAT-SIZE PERMA-FIX ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES, INC. Corporate 198 FTE
NAT-SIZE Beaver Creek (PH) 198 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: 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.