Animal shelters · California

HHS- Kennel Animal Site

Visalia, CA · ~22 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.9
Avg TCR
2.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

HHS- Kennel Animal Site runs at 426% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Animal shelters workplace, earning a grade F.

HHS- Kennel Animal Site: 8.9 TCR = 426% of Animal shelters BLS 2.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

HHS- Kennel Animal Site safety composite

HHS- Kennel Animal Site scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

71/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 8.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

HHS- Kennel Animal Site: 8.7 → 9.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 9.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

HHS- Kennel Animal Site's TCR rose 0.4 from 8.7 in 2023 to 9.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 812910 · Visalia, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.9 · 426% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/21
  • PHOTO Dogtopia Geneva
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Dogtopia Geneva (0.1 TCR gap)

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HHS- Kennel Animal Site in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows HHS- Kennel Animal Site averages 8.9 TCR (426% of the Animal shelters BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

HHS- Kennel Animal Site TCR series: 2023=8.7 · 2024=9.2 · BLS 2.1

Where HHS- Kennel Animal Site falls in its industry

65 Animal shelters establishments

Safer than 71% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 15.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 21 Animal shelters employers in California.

HHS- Kennel Animal Site (22 employees, TCR 8.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 15.8 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 010203040 Average employees Total Case Rate HHS- Kennel Animal Site
HHS- Kennel Animal Site (22 employees, TCR 8.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 15.8

HHS- Kennel Animal Site has fewer employees than the Animal shelters median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 15.8. 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 9.2 0.0 2 0 0
2023 8.7 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

812910 · CA · Visalia

65 Animal shelters employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 349 employers in Visalia, CA · 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 Dogtopia Geneva 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR SPCA of Wake County, Inc. 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wisconsin Humane Society - Milwaukee Campus 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Dog Play Spot - Wilmington 10.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE LaGrande Farms 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Del Carlo Farms, Inc. 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Linda Vista Farms 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE MOUNTAIN VIEW FARM SHOP 22 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kaweah Delta Health Care District 4,961 FTE
CITY-NEAR Paragon Personnel 2,129 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 194 1,485 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 473 1,479 FTE
NAT-TCR Opustone LLC 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Bigfoot Beverages Coos Bay 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Delta Health System 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Shaw Builders Inc. 8.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE New Hope 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pine Hill 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE River Valley 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dependable Glass LLC 22 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. 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.