Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing · Indiana

Heartland Pet Food Manufacturing Indiana LLC

Name: Heartland Pet Food Manufacturing Indiana LLC Workplace Safety Data
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Richmond, IN · ~180 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 2.8
Avg TCR: 3.9
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Heartland Pet Food Manufacturing Indiana LLC runs at 73% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Heartland Pet Food Manufacturing Indiana LLC: 2.8 TCR = 73% of Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Heartland Pet Food Manufacturing Indiana LLC safety composite

Heartland Pet Food Manufacturing Indiana LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 58% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 31%), 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).

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 2.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% of industry peers
DART rate: F 2.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% 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

Heartland Pet Food Manufacturing Indiana LLC: 1.7 → 3.9 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 3.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.99× in 2022

Heartland Pet Food Manufacturing Indiana LLC's TCR rose 2.2 from 1.7 in 2021 to 3.9 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 0.99× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311111 · Richmond, IN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.8 · 73% of ind

DART 2.8 DART
RANK #6/13
PHOTO AGRICULTURAL COMMODI…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 10 inj
SIZE ~180 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES INC (0.0 TCR gap)

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2.8
AGRICULTURAL C

2.8
Nestle Purina

2.8
K221-M001

2.8
Big Heart Pet

2.8

What this shows Heartland Pet Food Manufacturing Indiana LLC averages 2.8 TCR (73% of the Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Heartland Pet Food Manufacturing Indiana LLC TCR series: 2021=1.7 · 2022=3.9 · BLS 3.9

Where Heartland Pet Food Manufacturing Indiana LLC falls in its industry

302 Animal feed mills, dog and cat establishments

Safer than 58% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 13 Animal feed mills, dog and cat employers in Indiana.

Heartland Pet Food Manufacturing Indiana LLC (180 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 103 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Heartland Pet Food Manufacturing Indiana LLC has more employees than the Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufact 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
2022	3.9	2.8	7	0	0
2021	1.7	1.7	3	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311111 · IN · Richmond

302 Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 131 employers in Richmond, IN · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES INC	NEW OXFORD, PA	2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Nestle Purina Pet Care	FORT DODGE, IA	2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	K221-M001	SPRINGFIELD, TN	2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Big Heart Pet Brands	BUFFALO, NY	2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Thieneman Construction, Inc.	WESTFIELD	180 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Heartland Petfood Manufacturing Indiana, LLC	RICHMOND	180 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Newport Mill	CAYUGA	180 FTE
STATE-SIZE	FXI, Inc	AUBURN	180 FTE
CITY-NEAR	City Of Richmond	Richmond	535 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Belden, Inc.	Richmond	399 FTE
CITY-NEAR	WM 1745	Richmond	369 FTE
CITY-NEAR	1745	Richmond	361 FTE
NAT-TCR	KTC - Western Division	Lodi, CA	2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	3495-11DA537	Salt Lake City, UT	2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Northeast Medical Group, Inc.	Stratford, CT	2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	3077 Dillonvale Iga (Cincinnati, Oh)	Cincinnati, OH	2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE	KGP Irving	Irving, TX	180 FTE
NAT-SIZE	City of Savage	Savage, MN	180 FTE
NAT-SIZE	381331-Can-Main Office Sta	Canton, OH	180 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Woodcraft Industries	St. Cloud, MN	180 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: 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.