Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing · Kentucky

Champion Pet Foods

Auburn, KY · ~198 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Champion Pet Foods runs at 45% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Champion Pet Foods: 1.8 TCR = 45% of Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Champion Pet Foods safety composite

Champion Pet Foods scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 76% 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

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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

−1.3

2021→2023

Champion Pet Foods injury rate improved

Champion Pet Foods's TCR fell 1.3 from 1.8 in 2021 to 0.5 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 3.0 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.27× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=1.8 · 2022=3.0 · 2023=0.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311111 · Auburn, KY AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.8 · 45% of ind

  • DART 0.5 DART
  • RANK #2/6
  • PHOTO KKM
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~198 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: KKM (0.0 TCR gap)

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Champion Pet Foods in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Champion Pet Foods averages 1.8 TCR (45% 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

Champion Pet Foods TCR series: 2021=1.8 · 2022=3 · 2023=0.5 · BLS 3.9

Where Champion Pet Foods falls in its industry

302 Pet food, dog and cat, manufac establishments

Safer than 76% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 6 Pet food, dog and cat, manufac employers in Kentucky.

Champion Pet Foods (198 employees, TCR 1.8) 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 Champion Pet Foods
Champion Pet Foods (198 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 103 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Champion Pet Foods has more 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
2023 0.5 0.5 1 0 0
2022 3.0 2.0 6 0 0
2021 1.8 0.0 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311111 · KY · Auburn

302 Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 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 KKM 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR TDBBS LLC 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nestle Purina Pet Care 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cargill Owatonna 1.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Jim Smith Contracting Co., LLC 198 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tom Drexler Plumbing, Air & Electric 198 FTE
STATE-SIZE Prairie Farms Dairy 198 FTE
STATE-SIZE Modern Wholesale 198 FTE
CITY-NEAR Downey Trucking, Inc 23 FTE
NAT-TCR Wetherbee Electric, Inc. 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR EFCO 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Statz Painting & Decorating, Inc 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Depot 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE 00-Northern Distribution Center 198 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hancock & Moore Plant 1 198 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hudson Bergen Light Rail 198 FTE
NAT-SIZE Xquisite Landscaping Inc. 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: 2023, 2022, 2021. 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.