Animal feeds, prepared, dog and cat, manufacturing · Kansas

Hill's Topeka Mfg

Topeka, KS · ~164 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hill's Topeka Mfg runs at 51% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Animal feeds, prepared, dog and cat, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Hill's Topeka Mfg: 2.0 TCR = 51% of Animal feeds, prepared, dog and cat, manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hill's Topeka Mfg safety composite

Hill's Topeka Mfg scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% 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

−0.6

2016→2019

Hill's Topeka Mfg injury rate improved

Hill's Topeka Mfg's TCR fell 0.6 from 1.7 in 2016 to 1.1 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 3.2 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.55× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.7 · 2017=3.2 · 2019=1.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade B · TCR 2.0 · 51% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #8/23
  • PHOTO Carnivore Meat Compa…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~164 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Carnivore Meat Company - Yeager (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hill's Topeka Mfg in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hill's Topeka Mfg averages 2.0 TCR (51% 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

Hill's Topeka Mfg TCR series: 2016=1.7 · 2017=3.2 · 2019=1.1 · BLS 3.9

Where Hill's Topeka Mfg falls in its industry

302 Animal feeds, prepared, dog an establishments

Safer than 75% 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 #8 safest of 23 Animal feeds, prepared, dog an employers in Kansas.

Hill's Topeka Mfg (164 employees, TCR 2.0) 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 Topeka Mfg
Hill's Topeka Mfg (164 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 103 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Hill's Topeka Mfg has more 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
2019 1.1 1.1 2 0 0
2017 3.2 1.6 6 0 0
2016 1.7 0.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311111 · KS · Topeka

302 Animal feeds, prepared, dog and cat, 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 Carnivore Meat Company - Yeager 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Red Collar Pet Foods 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Diamond Pet Foods - Ripon 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stella & Chewy's Oak Creek, WI 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Wichita GO 164 FTE
STATE-SIZE McElroy's Inc 164 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fluid Connectors : Manhattan 164 FTE
STATE-SIZE Main Office - 01 164 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 Thomas Industrial Fabrication 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 100 Welday Ave 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Logan Service Center 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Riverside Cancer Infusion Center Williamsburg-617 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bluestem Irvine Distribution Complex - North Bldg. 164 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sooner Power Plant 164 FTE
NAT-SIZE TASUS 164 FTE
NAT-SIZE Custom Seasoning Solutions 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: 2019, 2017, 2016. 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.