Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing · California

Breeders Choice Pet Foods, LLC.

Irwindale, CA · ~78 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Breeders Choice Pet Foods, LLC. runs at 75% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Breeders Choice Pet Foods, LLC.: 2.9 TCR = 75% of Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Breeders Choice Pet Foods, LLC. safety composite

Breeders Choice Pet Foods, LLC. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 59% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.0

2020→2024

Breeders Choice Pet Foods, LLC. injury rate improved

Breeders Choice Pet Foods, LLC.'s TCR fell 1.0 from 2.1 in 2020 to 1.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 6.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.38× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=2.1 · 2021=3.4 · 2022=6.8 · 2023=1.3 · 2024=1.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade B · TCR 2.9 · 75% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #8/20
  • PHOTO Manna Pro Products C…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~78 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Manna Pro Products Crittenden (0.0 TCR gap)

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Breeders Choice Pet Foods, LLC. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Breeders Choice Pet Foods, LLC. averages 2.9 TCR (75% 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

Breeders Choice Pet Foods, LLC. TCR series: 2020=2.1 · 2021=3.4 · 2022=6.8 · 2023=1.3 · 2024=1.1 · BLS 3.9

Where Breeders Choice Pet Foods, LLC. falls in its industry

302 Pet food, dog and cat, manufac establishments

Safer than 55% 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 #8 safest of 20 Pet food, dog and cat, manufac employers in California.

Breeders Choice Pet Foods, LLC. (78 employees, TCR 2.9) 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 Breeders Choice Pet Foods, LLC.
Breeders Choice Pet Foods, LLC. (78 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 103 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Breeders Choice Pet Foods, LLC. has fewer employees than the Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing median and a lower 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 1.1 1.1 1 0 0
2023 1.3 1.3 1 0 0
2022 6.8 2.7 5 0 0
2021 3.4 1.7 2 0 0
2020 2.1 2.1 1 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 Manna Pro Products Crittenden 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Instinct 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Midwestern Pet Foods, Inc. - Waverly 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cargill Emporia Pet 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE California Endive Farms 78 FTE
STATE-SIZE VF - Napa 78 FTE
STATE-SIZE Russell Harris Farms 78 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hadley Date Gardens, Inc. 78 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 National Carwash Solutions 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Kraus-Anderson Realty 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 0012 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 0133 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE FREEHOLD CARTAGE, INC. New Jersey 78 FTE
NAT-SIZE ARC Automotive Knoxville Corporate 78 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rolling Hills Health & Rehab 78 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kenwood Health and Rehabilitation Center 78 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, 2022, 2021, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.