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

Heartland Pet Foods Joplin

Joplin, MO · ~231 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.2
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Heartland Pet Foods Joplin runs at 81% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Dog and cat food (e.g., canned, dry, frozen, semimoist), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Heartland Pet Foods Joplin: 3.2 TCR = 81% of Dog and cat food (e.g., canned, dry, frozen, semimoist), manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Heartland Pet Foods Joplin safety composite

Heartland Pet Foods Joplin scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 28%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% 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 Foods Joplin: 1.5 → 4.2 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 5.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.98× in 2024

Heartland Pet Foods Joplin's TCR rose 2.6 from 1.5 in 2016 to 4.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 5.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.98× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311111 · Joplin, MO AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.2 · 81% of ind

  • DART 3.1 DART
  • RANK #9/22
  • PHOTO Diamond Pet Foods-La…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 69 inj
  • SIZE ~231 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Diamond Pet Foods-Lathrop (0.0 TCR gap)

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Heartland Pet Foods Joplin in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Heartland Pet Foods Joplin averages 3.2 TCR (81% 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

Heartland Pet Foods Joplin TCR series: 2016=1.5 · 2017=2 · 2018=2.1 · 2019=2.4 · 2020=4.2 · 2021=2.1 · 2022=4.7 · 2023=5.3 · 2024=4.2 · BLS 3.9

Where Heartland Pet Foods Joplin falls in its industry

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

Safer than 50% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Missouri alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 22 Dog and cat food (e.g., canned employers in Missouri.

Heartland Pet Foods Joplin (231 employees, TCR 3.2) 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 Heartland Pet Foods Joplin
Heartland Pet Foods Joplin (231 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 103 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Heartland Pet Foods Joplin 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 4.2 3.1 12 0 0
2023 5.3 5.3 14 0 0
2022 4.7 4.3 13 0 0
2021 2.1 1.2 5 0 0
2020 4.2 4.2 7 4 0
2019 2.4 2.4 6 0 0
2018 2.1 2.1 5 0 0
2017 2.0 1.5 4 0 0
2016 1.5 1.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311111 · MO · Joplin

302 Dog and cat food (e.g., canned, dry, frozen, semimoist), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,075 rated employers in Missouri with headcount on file · 203 employers in Joplin, MO · 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 Diamond Pet Foods-Lathrop 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR IMS Pet Industries 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ravenna 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nestle Purina PetCare- Zanesville 3.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Louisa Food Products, Inc 231 FTE
STATE-SIZE BDF - Cabool MO 231 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ozarks Coca-Cola/Dr Pepper Bottling Company 231 FTE
STATE-SIZE BlueScope Buildings N.A. 231 FTE
CITY-NEAR Freeman Health System 3,718 FTE
CITY-NEAR MERCY HOSPITAL JOPLIN 1,561 FTE
CITY-NEAR Marmic Fire & Safety Company Inc. 875 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jasper Products, LLC 782 FTE
NAT-TCR Kwik Trip CT Petroleum Delivery 668 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Stoner Electric, Inc. 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Sierra OR Main and Other 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Finch Paper 3.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE US MI Zeeland 220 Riley St 231 FTE
NAT-SIZE GARDINER 231 FTE
NAT-SIZE Zoological Society of Pittsburgh DBA Pittsburgh Zoo & Aquarium 231 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sumter Hydraulics 231 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, 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.