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

Loving Pets

Cranbury, NJ · ~150 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.8
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Loving Pets runs at 97% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Dog and cat food (e.g., canned, dry, frozen, semimoist), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Loving Pets: 3.8 TCR = 97% of Dog and cat food (e.g., canned, dry, frozen, semimoist), manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Loving Pets safety composite

Loving Pets scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 21%), 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

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% 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

Loving Pets: 3.4 → 4.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.09× in 2024

Loving Pets's TCR rose 0.7 from 3.4 in 2023 to 4.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.09× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311111 · Cranbury, NJ AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.8 · 97% of ind

  • DART 4.1 DART
  • RANK #7/8
  • PHOTO Flint River Mills- M…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~150 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Flint River Mills- Mill Department (0.0 TCR gap)

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Loving Pets in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Loving Pets averages 3.8 TCR (97% 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

Loving Pets TCR series: 2023=3.4 · 2024=4.1 · BLS 3.9

Where Loving Pets falls in its industry

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

Safer than 44% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 8 Dog and cat food (e.g., canned employers in New Jersey.

Loving Pets (150 employees, TCR 3.8) 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 Loving Pets
Loving Pets (150 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 103 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Loving Pets has more employees than the Dog and cat food (e.g., canned, dry, fro median and a higher 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 4.1 4.1 6 0 0
2023 3.4 3.4 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311111 · NJ · Cranbury

302 Dog and cat food (e.g., canned, dry, frozen, semimoist), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 86 employers in Cranbury, NJ · 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 Flint River Mills- Mill Department 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR WellPet, LLC 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sun River Services 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Grober Nutrition LLC a Denkavit company 3.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE JBL Electric 150 FTE
STATE-SIZE Airborne Systems NJ 150 FTE
STATE-SIZE Essentra HCP Moorestown 150 FTE
STATE-SIZE Novitium Pharma 150 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : TEB6 1,330 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - TTN2 503 FTE
CITY-NEAR NJ_Cranbury_18 487 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cranbury 1 454 FTE
NAT-TCR Trend Technologies, LLC 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Universal Steel Inc 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Sunny Grove Landscaping & Nursery Inc. 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR UHM/CTAHR/ADAP-PADO 3.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lamon - Monroe 150 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kyowe - Owensboro 150 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corrchoice Concord 150 FTE
NAT-SIZE MaxPak 150 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.