Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing · Indiana

Hills Pet Nutrition

Name: Hills Pet Nutrition Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Richmond, IN · ~165 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 2.9
Avg TCR: 3.9
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Hills Pet Nutrition 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.

Hills Pet Nutrition: 2.9 TCR = 73% of Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hills Pet Nutrition safety composite

Hills Pet Nutrition scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 57% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 2.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers
DART rate: D 1.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.6

2020→2023

Hills Pet Nutrition injury rate improved

Hills Pet Nutrition's TCR fell 0.6 from 3.2 in 2020 to 2.6 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2020 at 3.2 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.53× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=3.2 · 2023=2.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade B · TCR 2.9 · 73% of ind

DART 1.5 DART
RANK #7/13
PHOTO NEA
BOOK 2y book
INJ 8 inj
SIZE ~165 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: NEA (0.0 TCR gap)

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2.9
NEA

2.9
Red Collar Pet

2.9
K221-M001

2.8
AGRICULTURAL C

2.8

What this shows Hills Pet Nutrition averages 2.9 TCR (73% of the Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Hills Pet Nutrition TCR series: 2020=3.2 · 2023=2.6 · BLS 3.9

Where Hills Pet Nutrition falls in its industry

302 Animal feed mills, dog and cat establishments

Safer than 57% 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 #7 safest of 13 Animal feed mills, dog and cat employers in Indiana.

Hills Pet Nutrition (165 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 103 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Hills Pet Nutrition 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
2023	2.6	1.5	5	0	0
2020	3.2	0.8	3	1	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	NEA	AURORA, NE	2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Red Collar Pet Foods SBE	SAN BERNARDINO, CA	2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	K221-M001	SPRINGFIELD, TN	2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES INC	NEW OXFORD, PA	2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE	General Refrigeration LLC DBA Premistar North, General Mechanical	ROSELLE	165 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Sheridan	SHERIDAN	165 FTE
STATE-SIZE	DFA-RBS-RICHMOND IN	RICHMOND	165 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Parker Hannifin - Syracuse	SYRACUSE	165 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	Southern Lakes Plumbing and Heating, Inc.	Elkhorn, WI	2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	Providential Fabricators Inc.	Memphis, TN	2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	Trelleborg Sealing Solutions, LLC	Giddings, TX	2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	Nashville Airport 890	Nashville, TN	2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Speer Mechanical	Columbus, OH	165 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Applied Felts, Inc.	Martinsville, VA	165 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Phoenix EMS	Phoenix, AZ	165 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Neat Companies	Dunville, KY	165 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: 2023, 2020. 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.