Dog and cat food (e.g., canned, dry, frozen, semimoist), manufacturing · Kansas

Hills Topeka Canning Plant

Topeka, KS · ~200 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hills Topeka Canning Plant runs at 63% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Dog and cat food (e.g., canned, dry, frozen, semimoist), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Hills Topeka Canning Plant: 2.4 TCR = 63% of Dog and cat food (e.g., canned, dry, frozen, semimoist), manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hills Topeka Canning Plant safety composite

Hills Topeka Canning Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 64% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 44%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% 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

−1.0

2020→2022

Hills Topeka Canning Plant injury rate improved

Hills Topeka Canning Plant's TCR fell 1.0 from 3.0 in 2020 to 1.9 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2020 at 3.0 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.79× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=3.0 · 2022=1.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311111 · Topeka, KS AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 63% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #10/23
  • PHOTO BNG Miracle Pet LLC
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~200 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: BNG Miracle Pet LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hills Topeka Canning Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hills Topeka Canning Plant averages 2.4 TCR (63% 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

Hills Topeka Canning Plant TCR series: 2020=3 · 2022=1.9 · BLS 3.9

Where Hills Topeka Canning Plant falls in its industry

302 Dog and cat food (e.g., canned establishments

Safer than 64% 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 #10 safest of 23 Dog and cat food (e.g., canned employers in Kansas.

Hills Topeka Canning Plant (200 employees, TCR 2.4) 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 Topeka Canning Plant
Hills Topeka Canning Plant (200 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 103 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Hills Topeka Canning Plant 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
2022 1.9 1.9 5 0 0
2020 3.0 2.0 5 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311111 · KS · Topeka

302 Dog and cat food (e.g., canned, dry, frozen, semimoist), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 319 employers in Topeka, 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 BNG Miracle Pet LLC 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Phelps Industries LLC 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Harvard PetDine 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Packaging Facility 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Conco Inc 200 FTE
STATE-SIZE Banner Creek LLC. 200 FTE
STATE-SIZE Owens Corning 200 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ducommun - Parsons 200 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stormont Vail Health - Hospital 2,589 FTE
CITY-NEAR Goodyear Tire Rubber Company 1,563 FTE
CITY-NEAR Goodyear Topeka 1,499 FTE
CITY-NEAR The University of Kansas Health System St. Francis Campus 1,417 FTE
NAT-TCR Store #042 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 2904-SAS-DC 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Point of the Mountain East/Trucking 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR PA.PITTS.4 - Ricoh Usa, Inc. 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Manor Care Health Services - Boynton Beach 200 FTE
NAT-SIZE 5472-NAI-0032-0032-00283 200 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1855-AHSCM31 200 FTE
NAT-SIZE 3457-07 Western Reserve Masonic Community, in 200 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: 2022, 2020. 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.