Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing · Kansas

Hill's Pet Nutrition

Emporia, KS · ~129 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.3
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hill's Pet Nutrition runs at 84% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Hill's Pet Nutrition: 3.3 TCR = 84% of Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hill's Pet Nutrition safety composite

Hill's Pet Nutrition scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 39%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% 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

Hill's Pet Nutrition: 3.4 → 5.4 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 5.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.71× in 2022

Hill's Pet Nutrition's TCR rose 2.0 from 3.4 in 2018 to 5.4 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 0.71× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311111 · Emporia, KS AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.3 · 84% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK #14/23
  • PHOTO PIGRIMS MT. PLEASANT…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~129 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: PIGRIMS MT. PLEASANT PET FOOD (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hill's Pet Nutrition in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hill's Pet Nutrition averages 3.3 TCR (84% of the Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Hill's Pet Nutrition TCR series: 2018=3.4 · 2019=2.6 · 2020=0.8 · 2021=4.1 · 2022=5.4 · BLS 3.9

Where Hill's Pet Nutrition falls in its industry

302 Animal feed mills, dog and cat establishments

Safer than 49% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 23 Animal feed mills, dog and cat employers in Kansas.

Hill's Pet Nutrition (129 employees, TCR 3.3) 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 Hill's Pet Nutrition
Hill's Pet Nutrition (129 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 103 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Hill's Pet Nutrition has more employees than the Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufact median and a higher 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 5.4 2.3 6 1 0
2021 4.1 3.3 5 0 0
2020 0.8 0.0 1 0 0
2019 2.6 2.6 3 0 0
2018 3.4 3.4 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311111 · KS · Emporia

302 Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 63 employers in Emporia, KS · 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 PIGRIMS MT. PLEASANT PET FOOD 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Meadville Operations 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Midwestern Pet Foods, Inc. - Monmouth 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR East Mill 3.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Barkman Honey 129 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jayhawk Fine Chemicals 129 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gold Bond Building Medicine Lodge 129 FTE
STATE-SIZE Atikinsion 129 FTE
CITY-NEAR EMPORIA PET FOOD 848 FTE
CITY-NEAR Emporia Plant 846 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hostess Brands LLC- Emporia 628 FTE
CITY-NEAR Newman Regional Health 600 FTE
NAT-TCR 2904-SAS-MO 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Ohno Construction Company WA 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR PSSI - 0746 OSI Group - Ashland/Chicago 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Aurora Zilber Family Hospice 3.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Big Y Foods, Inc. Killingly 129 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2904-SAS-NM 129 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2904-SAS-RI 129 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2904-SAS-WV 129 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, 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.