Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing · Kansas

Cargill Animal Nutrition

Emporia, KS · ~47 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.9
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cargill Animal Nutrition runs at 23% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Cargill Animal Nutrition: 0.9 TCR = 23% of Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cargill Animal Nutrition safety composite

Cargill Animal Nutrition scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 93% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 46%), 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

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 93% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% 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

Cargill Animal Nutrition: 0.0 → 1.8 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 2.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.98× in 2022

Cargill Animal Nutrition's TCR rose 1.8 from 0.0 in 2016 to 1.8 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2019 at 2.4 TCR. In 2022, DART was 1.98× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311111 · Emporia, KS AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 23% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #4/23
  • PHOTO IMS Pet Industries
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~47 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: IMS Pet Industries (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cargill Animal Nutrition in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cargill Animal Nutrition averages 0.9 TCR (23% 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

Cargill Animal Nutrition TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=2.4 · 2020=0 · 2021=2.1 · 2022=1.8 · BLS 3.9

Where Cargill Animal Nutrition falls in its industry

302 Animal feed mills, dog and cat establishments

Safer than 93% 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 #4 safest of 23 Animal feed mills, dog and cat employers in Kansas.

Cargill Animal Nutrition (47 employees, TCR 0.9) 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 Cargill Animal Nutrition
Cargill Animal Nutrition (47 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 103 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Cargill Animal Nutrition has fewer employees than the Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufact 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
2022 1.8 1.8 1 0 0
2021 2.1 0.0 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 2.4 0.0 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311111 · KS · Emporia

302 Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 63 employers in Emporia, 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 IMS Pet Industries 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR PCB-Lawrence 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nestle Purina St. Joseph Packers Ave 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nestle Purina Pet Care 1.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE ECI Garden City 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hedlund Electric, Inc. 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ashland Feed & Seed Co. 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE PureField Ingredients LLC 47 FTE
CITY-NEAR EMPORIA PET FOOD 848 FTE
CITY-NEAR Emporia Plant 846 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hostess Brands LLC- Emporia 628 FTE
CITY-NEAR Newman Regional Health 600 FTE
NAT-TCR ACBL - Harahan 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Silver Star Brands Administrative Office 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Cherry Moving Company, Inc. Dba Cherry Demolition 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Iron Woman Construction & Environmental Services LLC 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Shadydale 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nelson-Miller, Wausau WI 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE HG086 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE HG857 47 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.