Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing · California

Breeder's Choice Pet Foods

Irwindale, CA · ~59 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Breeder's Choice Pet Foods runs at 91% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Breeder's Choice Pet Foods: 3.5 TCR = 91% of Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Breeder's Choice Pet Foods safety composite

Breeder's Choice Pet Foods scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 45%), 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% 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%).

Breeder's Choice Pet Foods held a steady TCR band

Breeder's Choice Pet Foods's TCR held near 0.3 from 3.4 in 2018 to 3.7 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.52× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=3.4 · 2019=3.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311111 · Irwindale, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.5 · 91% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #11/20
  • PHOTO BHJ - Omaha
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~59 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: BHJ - Omaha (0.0 TCR gap)

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Breeder's Choice Pet Foods in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Breeder's Choice Pet Foods averages 3.5 TCR (91% 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

Breeder's Choice Pet Foods TCR series: 2018=3.4 · 2019=3.7 · BLS 3.9

Where Breeder's Choice Pet Foods falls in its industry

302 Pet food, dog and cat, manufac establishments

Safer than 46% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 20 Pet food, dog and cat, manufac employers in California.

Breeder's Choice Pet Foods (59 employees, TCR 3.5) 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 Breeder's Choice Pet Foods
Breeder's Choice Pet Foods (59 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 103 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Breeder's Choice Pet Foods has fewer 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
2019 3.7 1.8 2 0 0
2018 3.4 3.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311111 · CA · Irwindale

302 Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 84 employers in Irwindale, CA · 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 BHJ - Omaha 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sunshine Mills Inc Joplin 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Red Collar Pet Foods 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR BHJ - Logansport 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE DFFF-Salinas 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE LOMA 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE J.R. AG SOLUTIONS, INC. 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE F&J FERNANDEZ CONTRACTING 59 FTE
CITY-NEAR Haynes Building Service, LLC 635 FTE
CITY-NEAR Biosense Irwindale 486 FTE
CITY-NEAR CA-Irwindale Business Center 473 FTE
CITY-NEAR MillerCoors Irwindale Brewery 473 FTE
NAT-TCR Cardinal IG - Tomah IG 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-Swy 0027 1832 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 5472-Swy 0035 2794 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR CECO Concrete : Seattle 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE kj's market quinby 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mt Juliet 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Merit Electric, Inc. - Fort Collins 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6400-Swy 0005 2555 59 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.