Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing · Idaho

DSM-Firmenich

Ames, ID · ~30 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.4
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

DSM-Firmenich runs at 216% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

DSM-Firmenich: 8.4 TCR = 216% of Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

DSM-Firmenich safety composite

DSM-Firmenich scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 90% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 10%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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%).

Rising injury rate

DSM-Firmenich: 7.9 → 9.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 9.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

DSM-Firmenich's TCR rose 1.1 from 7.9 in 2023 to 9.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311111 · Ames, ID ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.4 · 216% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P10
  • PHOTO Sun-Tek Pet LLC
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sun-Tek Pet LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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DSM-Firmenich in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows DSM-Firmenich averages 8.4 TCR (216% 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

DSM-Firmenich TCR series: 2023=7.9 · 2024=9 · BLS 3.9

Where DSM-Firmenich falls in its industry

302 Animal feed mills, dog and cat establishments

Safer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
DSM-Firmenich (30 employees, TCR 8.4) 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 DSM-Firmenich
DSM-Firmenich (30 employees, TCR 8.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 103 employees and a TCR of 3.3

DSM-Firmenich has fewer employees than the Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufact 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
2024 9.0 0.0 2 0 0
2023 7.9 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311111 · ID · Ames

302 Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,774 rated employers in Idaho 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 Sun-Tek Pet LLC 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR NomNomNow Inc WCP 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR John J Hoober Inc 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR All American Pet Proteins 8.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Nampa Packaging and Production 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Idaho Falls District Office 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE ACCO Building Services Idaho 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Iron Horse Excavation LLC 30 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Ames, Iowa - City Hall 122 FTE
NAT-TCR Knox County Association for Remarkable Citizens 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Cogra - Grand Junction 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Iahia - Hiawatha 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Village at Pine Valley 8.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Tri-County Bulk Milk Haulers, Inc 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Flying Butcher 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Agway of Cape Cod - Orleans 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Asherton 30 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.