Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing · Pennsylvania

Freshpet Kitchens Bethlehem

Bethlehem, PA · ~325 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.6
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Freshpet Kitchens Bethlehem runs at 219% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Freshpet Kitchens Bethlehem: 8.6 TCR = 219% of Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Freshpet Kitchens Bethlehem safety composite

Freshpet Kitchens Bethlehem scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% 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).

F

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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

−4.0

2016→2021

Freshpet Kitchens Bethlehem injury rate improved

Freshpet Kitchens Bethlehem's TCR fell 4.0 from 12.1 in 2016 to 8.1 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2016 at 12.1 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.78× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=12.1 · 2017=9.2 · 2018=6.4 · 2019=8.0 · 2020=7.5 · 2021=8.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311111 · Bethlehem, PA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.6 · 219% of ind

  • DART 6.7 DART
  • RANK #21/23
  • PHOTO Canidae LLC
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 164 inj
  • SIZE ~325 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Canidae LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Freshpet Kitchens Bethlehem in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Freshpet Kitchens Bethlehem averages 8.6 TCR (219% 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

Freshpet Kitchens Bethlehem TCR series: 2016=12.1 · 2017=9.2 · 2018=6.4 · 2019=8 · 2020=7.5 · 2021=8.1 · BLS 3.9

Where Freshpet Kitchens Bethlehem falls in its industry

302 Pet food, dog and cat, manufac establishments

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

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #21 safest of 23 Pet food, dog and cat, manufac employers in Pennsylvania.

Freshpet Kitchens Bethlehem (325 employees, TCR 8.6) 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 Freshpet Kitchens Bethlehem
Freshpet Kitchens Bethlehem (325 employees, TCR 8.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 103 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Freshpet Kitchens Bethlehem has more employees than the Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing 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
2021 8.1 6.7 51 0 0
2020 7.5 6.6 32 1 0
2019 8.0 6.5 28 0 0
2018 6.4 4.9 16 1 0
2017 9.2 6.8 19 0 0
2016 12.1 12.1 18 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311111 · PA · Bethlehem

302 Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 358 employers in Bethlehem, PA · 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 Ethos Pet Nutrition, LLC. 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR DSM-Firmenich 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sun-Tek Pet LLC 8.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE HORSHAM PA OFFICE 325 FTE
STATE-SIZE Westlake Royal Bulding Products (Metamora of PA) 325 FTE
STATE-SIZE Weiler Corporation 325 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wegmans Erie Ridge Road 069 325 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Luke's Hospital 5,338 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Luke's Physician's Group 3,041 FTE
CITY-NEAR LVH-Muhlenberg 2,139 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4087 2,105 FTE
NAT-TCR EMPAZ, Inc. dba EmpireWorks 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR HawkeyePedershaab Concrete Technologies, Inc. 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Rome Health and Rehabilitation Center 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Tokusen - Conway 8.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Loews Hollywood Hotel 325 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pontchartrain Works 325 FTE
NAT-SIZE Howry Residential Services 325 FTE
NAT-SIZE Eckardt Electric Co. 325 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: 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.