Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing · California

Main Plant

Visalia, CA · ~169 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.2
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Main Plant runs at 56% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Main Plant: 2.2 TCR = 56% of Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Main Plant safety composite

Main Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 48%), 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

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% 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

Main Plant: 0.8 → 1.7 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 5.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.77× in 2023

Main Plant's TCR rose 0.9 from 0.8 in 2018 to 1.7 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2019 at 5.1 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.77× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311111 · Visalia, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.2 · 56% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #5/20
  • PHOTO Hill's Pet Nutrition…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~169 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hill's Pet Nutrition Indiana Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Main Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Main Plant averages 2.2 TCR (56% 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

Main Plant TCR series: 2018=0.8 · 2019=5.1 · 2020=2.1 · 2021=1.5 · 2022=2 · 2023=1.7 · BLS 3.9

Where Main Plant falls in its industry

302 Animal feed mills, dog and cat establishments

Safer than 70% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 20 Animal feed mills, dog and cat employers in California.

Main Plant (169 employees, TCR 2.2) 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 Main Plant
Main Plant (169 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 103 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Main Plant 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
2023 1.7 1.7 4 0 0
2022 2.0 1.5 4 0 0
2021 1.5 1.5 2 0 0
2020 2.1 2.1 3 0 0
2019 5.1 3.8 8 0 0
2018 0.8 0.8 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311111 · CA · Visalia

302 Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 349 employers in Visalia, CA · 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 Hill's Pet Nutrition Indiana Inc. 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR OHL 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nestle Purina Petcare Company 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR SBE 2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Adam Gutierrez 169 FTE
STATE-SIZE E & C LABOR SERVICES INC 169 FTE
STATE-SIZE MALAGA SHIPPING 169 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cal-South Harvesting, Inc. 169 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kaweah Delta Health Care District 4,961 FTE
CITY-NEAR Paragon Personnel 2,129 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 194 1,485 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 473 1,479 FTE
NAT-TCR Norris Rods 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Kimball International Logistics 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR USM Store #550 (United) 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Unit #0232 2.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Prairie Farms Dairy Fort Wayne 169 FTE
NAT-SIZE USM Store #690 (ALBERTSONS MARKET) 169 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stop & Shop 100615 169 FTE
NAT-SIZE R3 Composites 169 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.