Dog and cat food (e.g., canned, dry, frozen, semimoist), manufacturing · Kentucky
Hill's Pet Nutrition Inc., Bowling Green Facility
Bowling Green, KY · ~164 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- A
- Excellent Safety Record
- 1.3
- Avg TCR
- 3.9
- Industry avg
- 0
- Fatalities
The verdict
Hill's Pet Nutrition Inc., Bowling Green Facility runs at 34% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Dog and cat food (e.g., canned, dry, frozen, semimoist), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.
Hill's Pet Nutrition Inc., Bowling Green Facility: 1.3 TCR = 34% of Dog and cat food (e.g., canned, dry, frozen, semimoist), manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)
Hill's Pet Nutrition Inc., Bowling Green Facility safety composite
Hill's Pet Nutrition Inc., Bowling Green Facility scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 85% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 38%), 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).
60/100
Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures
- Total Case Rate (TCR)
- B 1.33 per 100 workers
Safer than 85% of industry peers
- DART rate
- D 2.38 per 100 workers
Safer than 38% 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 Inc., Bowling Green Facility: 1.6 → 3.0 TCR
Peak year 2024 @ 3.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.79× in 2024
Hill's Pet Nutrition Inc., Bowling Green Facility's TCR rose 1.4 from 1.6 in 2017 to 3.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.79× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).
OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard
Establishment book 311111 · Bowling Green, KY AT/BELOW-IND · MID
Grade A · TCR 1.3 · 34% of ind
- DART 2.4 DART
- RANK #1/6
- PHOTO TFH Publications, Inc.
- BOOK 7y book
- INJ 15 inj
- SIZE ~164 FTE
Nearest TCR peer: TFH Publications, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)
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Hill's Pet Nutrition Inc., Bowling Green Facility in the TCR neighbourhood
Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers
- Grober Nutriti
Grober Nutrition LLC
1.4 TCR
- PCB - Perfecti
PCB - Perfection Pet Foods Kibble
1.4 TCR
- This site
Hill's Pet Nutrition Inc., Bowling Green Facility
1.3 TCR
- TFH Publicatio
TFH Publications, Inc.
1.3 TCR
- Nestle Purina
Nestle Purina PetCare
1.3 TCR
What this shows Hill's Pet Nutrition Inc., Bowling Green Facility averages 1.3 TCR (34% of the Dog and cat food (e.g., canned, dry, frozen, semimoist), manufacturing BLS benchmark).
Hill's Pet Nutrition Inc., Bowling Green Facility TCR series: 2017=1.6 · 2018=0 · 2019=1.6 · 2020=0 · 2022=1.1 · 2023=2.1 · 2024=3 · BLS 3.9
Where Hill's Pet Nutrition Inc., Bowling Green Facility falls in its industry
302 Dog and cat food (e.g., canned establishmentsSafer than 85% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.
Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 6 Dog and cat food (e.g., canned employers in Kentucky.
Hill's Pet Nutrition Inc., Bowling Green Facility 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 | 3.0 | 2.4 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2.1 | 1.0 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 1.1 | 0.5 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 1.6 | 1.6 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 1.6 | 1.6 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
OSHA ITA peer cross-reference
Establishment peer ledger
311111 · KY · Bowling Green
302 Dog and cat food (e.g., canned, dry, frozen, semimoist), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 331 employers in Bowling Green, KY · 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 | TFH Publications, Inc. | 1.3 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | Grober Nutrition LLC | 1.4 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | Nestle Purina PetCare | 1.3 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | PCB - Perfection Pet Foods Kibble | 1.4 TCR |
| STATE-SIZE | SRC of Lexington | 164 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | Donaldson Company, Inc | 164 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | KY - Louisville - 451 Kenwood Business Dr - The American Bottling Company | 164 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | 0460 LOWE S OF ELIZABETHTOWN KY. | 164 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | Western Kentucky University-Bowling Green | 2,237 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | The Medical Center at Bowling Green | 1,872 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | Magna Bowling Green Metalforming | 1,441 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | Bowling Green Metalforming | 1,344 FTE |
| NAT-TCR | Niagara Bottling, LLC - Stockton | 1.3 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | IRL Systems, Inc. | 1.3 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | Jfp Enterprises Inc | 1.3 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | 81-20 Randolph | 1.3 TCR |
| NAT-SIZE | Sun Pacific Shippers | Exeter Packinghouse | 164 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | West Coast Packing, Inc. | 164 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | Allen | 164 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | HS Visalia District office | 164 FTE |
Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.