Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing · Kansas

J.M. Smucker Co.

Lawrence, KS · ~148 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.3
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

J.M. Smucker Co. runs at 58% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

J.M. Smucker Co.: 2.3 TCR = 58% of Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

J.M. Smucker Co. safety composite

J.M. Smucker Co. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 69% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 37%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% 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

J.M. Smucker Co.: 1.3 → 3.0 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 3.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.08× in 2021

J.M. Smucker Co.'s TCR rose 1.8 from 1.3 in 2016 to 3.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 3.6 TCR. In 2021, DART was 1.08× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade B · TCR 2.3 · 58% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK #9/23
  • PHOTO LEB
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~148 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: LEB (0.0 TCR gap)

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J.M. Smucker Co. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows J.M. Smucker Co. averages 2.3 TCR (58% 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

J.M. Smucker Co. TCR series: 2016=1.3 · 2017=1.3 · 2018=3.6 · 2019=1.8 · 2020=2.4 · 2021=3 · BLS 3.9

Where J.M. Smucker Co. falls in its industry

302 Animal feed mills, dog and cat establishments

Safer than 69% 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 #9 safest of 23 Animal feed mills, dog and cat employers in Kansas.

J.M. Smucker Co. (148 employees, TCR 2.3) 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 J.M. Smucker Co.
J.M. Smucker Co. (148 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 103 employees and a TCR of 3.3

J.M. Smucker Co. has more employees than the Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufact 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
2021 3.0 2.4 5 0 0
2020 2.4 2.4 4 0 0
2019 1.8 1.2 3 0 0
2018 3.6 0.0 6 0 0
2017 1.3 1.3 2 0 0
2016 1.3 0.6 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311111 · KS · Lawrence

302 Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 96 employers in Lawrence, 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 LEB 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Flint River Mills- Truck Department 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Quincy Crosswind 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Diamond Pet Food Processors of South Carolina 2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Holcomb Station 148 FTE
STATE-SIZE US KS Andover Plant 148 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gerry Parker - 01 148 FTE
STATE-SIZE AGCO : Beloit 148 FTE
CITY-NEAR Berry Global 905 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hallmark Cards - Greetings Production Plant 807 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amarr Entrematic 717 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 484 348 FTE
NAT-TCR Progressive Dynamics Enterprises LCC 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Intralox New Orleans 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Pratt Paper (Georgia), LLC 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR ADS Logistics Co, LLC - Portage 2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE 4Front Engineer Solutions- Muskego 148 FTE
NAT-SIZE Doubletree Tampa Airport Westshore 148 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tenaris Coiled Tubes 148 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mountain Top 148 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.