Dog and cat food (e.g., canned, dry, frozen, semimoist), manufacturing · Kansas

Cargill Emporia Pet

Emporia, KS · ~72 workers · 2 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

Cargill Emporia Pet runs at 75% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Dog and cat food (e.g., canned, dry, frozen, semimoist), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Cargill Emporia Pet: 2.9 TCR = 75% of Dog and cat food (e.g., canned, dry, frozen, semimoist), manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cargill Emporia Pet safety composite

Cargill Emporia Pet scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 90% 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

67/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% 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

−3.0

2023→2024

Cargill Emporia Pet injury rate improved

Cargill Emporia Pet's TCR fell 3.0 from 4.4 in 2023 to 1.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 4.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=4.4 · 2024=1.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade B · TCR 2.9 · 75% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #13/23
  • PHOTO Midwestern Pet Foods…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~72 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Midwestern Pet Foods, Inc. - Waverly (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cargill Emporia Pet in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cargill Emporia Pet averages 2.9 TCR (75% of the Dog and cat food (e.g., canned, dry, frozen, semimoist), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Cargill Emporia Pet TCR series: 2023=4.4 · 2024=1.4 · BLS 3.9

Where Cargill Emporia Pet falls in its industry

302 Dog and cat food (e.g., canned establishments

Safer than 56% 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 #13 safest of 23 Dog and cat food (e.g., canned employers in Kansas.

Cargill Emporia Pet (72 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 Cargill Emporia Pet
Cargill Emporia Pet (72 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 103 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Cargill Emporia Pet has fewer employees than the Dog and cat food (e.g., canned, dry, fro 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 1.4 0.0 1 0 0
2023 4.4 1.5 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311111 · KS · Emporia

302 Dog and cat food (e.g., canned, dry, frozen, semimoist), 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 Midwestern Pet Foods, Inc. - Waverly 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Breeders Choice Pet Foods, LLC. 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Manna Pro Products Crittenden 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hampshire Pet Products, LLC. 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE CAS Constructors, LLC 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE Entire Company 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE Emporia KS 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wichita Concrete Pipe 72 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 Gulf Coast Utility Contractors, LLC 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR George P Johnson Auburn Hills 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 3120-Bulldog Systems 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Giant Landover 229 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Market of Choice #11 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE Baskin Livestock, Inc 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mesa Verde Enterprises 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE Prism - 119 West Main 72 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. 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.