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
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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).

C

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

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).

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

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 establishments

Safer than 85% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

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 (164 employees, TCR 1.3) 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 Inc., Bowling Green Facility
Hill's Pet Nutrition Inc., Bowling Green Facility (164 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 103 employees and a TCR of 3.3

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 →

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, 2022, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.