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

Freshpet Kitchens Plant 3 - Ennis Texas

Ennis, TX · ~274 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.6
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Freshpet Kitchens Plant 3 - Ennis Texas runs at 68% 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.

Freshpet Kitchens Plant 3 - Ennis Texas: 2.6 TCR = 68% of Dog and cat food (e.g., canned, dry, frozen, semimoist), manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Freshpet Kitchens Plant 3 - Ennis Texas safety composite

Freshpet Kitchens Plant 3 - Ennis Texas scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 62% 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

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% 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%).

Freshpet Kitchens Plant 3 - Ennis Texas held a steady TCR band

Freshpet Kitchens Plant 3 - Ennis Texas's TCR held near 0.1 from 2.1 in 2022 to 2.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 3.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.51× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=2.1 · 2023=3.9 · 2024=2.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311111 · Ennis, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.6 · 68% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #5/16
  • PHOTO US PL Allentown NPPC
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~274 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: US PL Allentown NPPC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Freshpet Kitchens Plant 3 - Ennis Texas in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Freshpet Kitchens Plant 3 - Ennis Texas averages 2.6 TCR (68% 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

Freshpet Kitchens Plant 3 - Ennis Texas TCR series: 2022=2.1 · 2023=3.9 · 2024=2 · BLS 3.9

Where Freshpet Kitchens Plant 3 - Ennis Texas falls in its industry

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

Safer than 62% 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 #5 safest of 16 Dog and cat food (e.g., canned employers in Texas.

Freshpet Kitchens Plant 3 - Ennis Texas (274 employees, TCR 2.6) 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 Plant 3 - Ennis Texas
Freshpet Kitchens Plant 3 - Ennis Texas (274 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 103 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Freshpet Kitchens Plant 3 - Ennis Texas has more 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 2.0 1.3 9 0 0
2023 3.9 2.5 11 0 0
2022 2.1 2.1 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311111 · TX · Ennis

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 · 80 employers in Ennis, 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 US PL Allentown NPPC 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR KITCHEN SOUTH 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nestle Purina Petcare - Saint Joseph 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ainsworth Pet Nutrition Meadville Plant 2.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE 105186 - USGC ll Ethylene Plant 274 FTE
STATE-SIZE 80645-MILK PLANT-SA 274 FTE
STATE-SIZE CF Dallas 274 FTE
STATE-SIZE Plant 932 274 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sterilite Corporation - ENS 627 FTE
CITY-NEAR 86100B01 CVS PHARMACY, INC. 307 FTE
CITY-NEAR 286 305 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6795-86100B0199 297 FTE
NAT-TCR VA006 Big Island Paper 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Pumping Services Inc. 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Bulk First LLC 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Jack Daniel Distillery 2.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE 042-PL001 274 FTE
NAT-SIZE Allina Health Woodbury Clinic 274 FTE
NAT-SIZE Metrie EL & EL - Chino 274 FTE
NAT-SIZE 5150 Savannah Idc South 274 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, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.