Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing · Indiana

Heartland Petfood Manufacturing Indiana, LLC

Name: Heartland Petfood Manufacturing Indiana, LLC Workplace Safety Data
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Richmond, IN · ~180 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 1.5
Avg TCR: 3.9
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Heartland Petfood Manufacturing Indiana, LLC runs at 39% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Heartland Petfood Manufacturing Indiana, LLC: 1.5 TCR = 39% of Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Heartland Petfood Manufacturing Indiana, LLC safety composite

Heartland Petfood Manufacturing Indiana, LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 45%), 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).

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 1.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% of industry peers
DART rate: D 1.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% 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 Petfood Manufacturing Indiana, LLC: 0.7 → 2.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.22× in 2024

Heartland Petfood Manufacturing Indiana, LLC's TCR rose 1.7 from 0.7 in 2019 to 2.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.22× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade A · TCR 1.5 · 39% of ind

DART 1.9 DART
RANK #2/13
PHOTO Cargill/Pro Pet LLC
BOOK 3y book
INJ 9 inj
SIZE ~180 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cargill/Pro Pet LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Saturn Petcare

1.6
This site

1.5
Cargill/Pro Pe

1.5
Buffalo Milk-B

1.5
South Mill

1.5

What this shows Heartland Petfood Manufacturing Indiana, LLC averages 1.5 TCR (39% of the Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Heartland Petfood Manufacturing Indiana, LLC TCR series: 2019=0.7 · 2023=1.6 · 2024=2.3 · BLS 3.9

Where Heartland Petfood Manufacturing Indiana, LLC falls in its industry

302 Animal feed mills, dog and cat establishments

Safer than 81% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 13 Animal feed mills, dog and cat employers in Indiana.

Heartland Petfood Manufacturing Indiana, LLC (180 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 103 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Heartland Petfood 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
2024	2.3	1.9	5
2023	1.6	1.6	3
2019	0.7	0.7	1

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	Cargill/Pro Pet LLC	SAINT MARYS, OH	1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Buffalo Milk-Bone	BUFFALO, NY	1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	South Mill	FORT RECOVERY, OH	1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Saturn Petcare Inc.	TERRE HAUTE, IN	1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Thieneman Construction, Inc.	WESTFIELD	180 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Heartland Pet Food 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	Maricopa County - Public Fiduciary (340)	Phoenix, AZ	1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Warner Bros. Pictures, a division of WB Studio Enterprises Inc.	Burbank, CA	1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Bramson House, Inc.	Freeport, NY	1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Xtreme Truckin, LLC	Williamsport, PA	1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE	PS Marcato Elevator Co., Inc.	Long Island City, NY	180 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Huntsman Conroe Texas	Conroe, TX	180 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Aj Farm Labor Contracting, Inc Office	Salinas, CA	180 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Hamel MN	Hamel, 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: 2024, 2023, 2019. 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.