Animal feeds, prepared, dog and cat, manufacturing · South Carolina

Hills Pet Nutrition

Orangeburg, SC · ~95 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hills Pet Nutrition runs at 79% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Animal feeds, prepared, dog and cat, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Hills Pet Nutrition: 3.1 TCR = 79% of Animal feeds, prepared, 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 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 24%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% 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

Hills Pet Nutrition: 2.3 → 3.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 3.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.24× in 2024

Hills Pet Nutrition's TCR rose 1.5 from 2.3 in 2023 to 3.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.24× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311111 · Orangeburg, SC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 3.1 · 79% of ind

  • DART 3.8 DART
  • RANK #5/6
  • PHOTO Wellness Pet Company
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~95 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Wellness Pet Company (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 3.1 TCR (79% of the Animal feeds, prepared, 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=2.3 · 2024=3.8 · BLS 3.9

Where Hills Pet Nutrition falls in its industry

302 Animal feeds, prepared, dog an establishments

Safer than 53% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 6 Animal feeds, prepared, dog an employers in South Carolina.

Hills Pet Nutrition (95 employees, TCR 3.1) 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 (95 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 103 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Hills Pet Nutrition has fewer employees than the Animal feeds, prepared, dog and cat, man 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 3.8 3.8 2 1 0
2023 2.3 2.3 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311111 · SC · Orangeburg

302 Animal feeds, prepared, dog and cat, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 79 employers in Orangeburg, SC · 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 Wellness Pet Company 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Specialty Feeds, Inc. 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR PCB-Bloomsburg 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Midwestern Pet Foods, Inc. 3.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE ASIS 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE Red Collar Pet Foods 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE Archroma U.S. Inc. 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE Apex Tool Group - Sumter 95 FTE
CITY-NEAR Regional Medical Center 1,530 FTE
CITY-NEAR Husqvarna Consumer Outdoor Products 1,287 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Regional Medical Center 1,209 FTE
CITY-NEAR MUSC Health Orangeburg 1,155 FTE
NAT-TCR Murfreesboro I 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Brookestone Acres 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Anchor Paper Company 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Morris Midwest LLC 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Corbin Electrical Services, Inc. 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pasadena Highlands 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE Azteca Milling 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE Minot Health and Rehab 95 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.