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

Ethos Pet Nutrition, LLC.

Brownwood, TX · ~78 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.7
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ethos Pet Nutrition, LLC. runs at 223% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Dog and cat food (e.g., canned, dry, frozen, semimoist), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Ethos Pet Nutrition, LLC.: 8.7 TCR = 223% of Dog and cat food (e.g., canned, dry, frozen, semimoist), manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ethos Pet Nutrition, LLC. safety composite

Ethos Pet Nutrition, LLC. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 9%), 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).

F

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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

−4.9

2023→2024

Ethos Pet Nutrition, LLC. injury rate improved

Ethos Pet Nutrition, LLC.'s TCR fell 4.9 from 11.1 in 2023 to 6.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 11.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.57× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=11.1 · 2024=6.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311111 · Brownwood, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.7 · 223% of ind

  • DART 5.0 DART
  • RANK #16/16
  • PHOTO Canidae LLC
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~78 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Canidae LLC (0.1 TCR gap)

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Ethos Pet Nutrition, LLC. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ethos Pet Nutrition, LLC. averages 8.7 TCR (223% 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

Ethos Pet Nutrition, LLC. TCR series: 2023=11.1 · 2024=6.2 · BLS 3.9

Where Ethos Pet Nutrition, LLC. falls in its industry

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

Safer than 9% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 16 Dog and cat food (e.g., canned employers in Texas.

Ethos Pet Nutrition, LLC. (78 employees, TCR 8.7) 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 Ethos Pet Nutrition, LLC.
Ethos Pet Nutrition, LLC. (78 employees, TCR 8.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 103 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Ethos Pet Nutrition, LLC. has fewer employees than the Dog and cat food (e.g., canned, dry, fro 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 6.2 5.0 5 0 0
2023 11.1 7.9 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311111 · TX · Brownwood

302 Dog and cat food (e.g., canned, dry, frozen, semimoist), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 59 employers in Brownwood, TX · 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 Canidae LLC 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR AVEKA Manufacturing 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Freshpet Kitchens Bethlehem 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR DSM-Firmenich 8.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Americot, Inc 78 FTE
STATE-SIZE Aim Directional Services, LLC 78 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ironclad 78 FTE
STATE-SIZE RWE Renewables Services LLC-Roscoe 78 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6394-B2300 2,084 FTE
CITY-NEAR Girling Community Care - Brownwood 1,410 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kohler Co - Brownwood Vitreous 650 FTE
CITY-NEAR BROWNWOOD 622 FTE
NAT-TCR Boyle'S Aluminum and Screening LLC 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Pioneer House 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Asbury Park Nursing and Rehabilitation Center 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Fleet 8.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pleasant Hill Health and Rehabilitation Center 78 FTE
NAT-SIZE DuMolin Community Living 78 FTE
NAT-SIZE Walters Metal Fabrication, inc 78 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hagerty Steel and Aluminum 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.