Dog and Cat Food Manufacturing · Nebraska

Instinct

Lincoln, NE · ~103 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Instinct runs at 75% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Dog and Cat Food Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Instinct: 2.9 TCR = 75% of Dog and Cat Food Manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Instinct safety composite

Instinct scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 55% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 40%), 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

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% 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

−1.3

2023→2024

Instinct injury rate improved

Instinct's TCR fell 1.3 from 3.6 in 2023 to 2.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 3.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.78× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=3.6 · 2024=2.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311111 · Lincoln, NE AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.9 · 75% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK #6/17
  • PHOTO Breeders Choice Pet …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~103 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Breeders Choice Pet Foods, LLC. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Instinct in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Instinct averages 2.9 TCR (75% of the Dog and Cat Food Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Instinct TCR series: 2023=3.6 · 2024=2.3 · BLS 3.9

Where Instinct falls in its industry

302 Dog and Cat Food Manufacturing establishments

Safer than 55% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Nebraska alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 17 Dog and Cat Food Manufacturing employers in Nebraska.

Instinct (103 employees, TCR 2.9) 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 Instinct
Instinct (103 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 103 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Instinct has more employees than the Dog and Cat Food Manufacturing 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 2.3 2.3 3 0 0
2023 3.6 3.6 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311111 · NE · Lincoln

302 Dog and Cat Food Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 3,594 rated employers in Nebraska with headcount on file · 496 employers in Lincoln, NE · 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 Breeders Choice Pet Foods, LLC. 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Manna Pro Products Crittenden 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Midwestern Pet Foods, Inc. - Waverly 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cargill Emporia Pet 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Waco, NE-Mfg 103 FTE
STATE-SIZE Roloff Construction 103 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eyman Plumbing, Heating & Air 103 FTE
STATE-SIZE Crete NB 103 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nelnet Servicing LLC 2,850 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nelnet - Lincoln HQ 2,491 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bryan East Campus 2,358 FTE
CITY-NEAR FACTS Education Corporation 1,986 FTE
NAT-TCR A Better Life Recovery LLC, dba AMFM Healthcare 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Village of Kenilworth 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Genesis Energy,L.P. - North Louisiana Trucking 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Building Associates 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Complete Care at Woodlands 103 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hobson Fabricating corp. 103 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wynn's Family Market INC 103 FTE
NAT-SIZE Seward Screw, LLC 103 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.

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