Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing · Kansas

Hills Pet Nutrition

Emporia, KS · ~143 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.9
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hills Pet Nutrition runs at 126% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Hills Pet Nutrition: 4.9 TCR = 126% 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 dart rate (safer than 90% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 35%), 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

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% 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

−0.7

2023→2024

Hills Pet Nutrition injury rate improved

Hills Pet Nutrition's TCR fell 0.7 from 5.3 in 2023 to 4.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 5.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=5.3 · 2024=4.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311111 · Emporia, KS ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.9 · 126% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #17/23
  • PHOTO SIIMMONS PET TREATS
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~143 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SIIMMONS PET TREATS (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hills Pet Nutrition in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hills Pet Nutrition averages 4.9 TCR (126% 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

Hills Pet Nutrition TCR series: 2023=5.3 · 2024=4.6 · BLS 3.9

Where Hills Pet Nutrition falls in its industry

302 Animal feed mills, dog and cat establishments

Safer than 35% 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 #17 safest of 23 Animal feed mills, dog and cat employers in Kansas.

Hills Pet Nutrition (143 employees, TCR 4.9) 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 Hills Pet Nutrition
Hills Pet Nutrition (143 employees, TCR 4.9) 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 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
2024 4.6 0.0 6 0 0
2023 5.3 1.5 7 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 SIIMMONS PET TREATS 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Honest Kitchen Inc 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR BHJ - FRESNO 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tuffy's Pet Foods 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Central Mechanical Construction Co 143 FTE
STATE-SIZE Novation iQ 143 FTE
STATE-SIZE Chanute Manufacturing Co 143 FTE
STATE-SIZE Crestwood, Inc. 143 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 Eagle Eye Nogales 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Roadmaster Enterprises LLC dba Sturdy-Lite 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Transpro Inc. 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Rockwall Nursing Care Center 4.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Olam Americas LLC 143 FTE
NAT-SIZE Northern Pride, Inc. 143 FTE
NAT-SIZE Legacy Health and Rehabilitation of Pleasant Grove, LLC 143 FTE
NAT-SIZE Canyon State Electric Inc. 143 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.