Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing · Illinois

Merrick Pet Care

Name: Merrick Pet Care Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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St. Louis, IL · ~508 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 1.9
Avg TCR: 3.9
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Merrick Pet Care runs at 50% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Merrick Pet Care: 1.9 TCR = 50% of Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Merrick Pet Care safety composite

Merrick Pet Care 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).

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 1.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% of industry peers
DART rate: C 0.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% 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

Merrick Pet Care: 1.3 → 2.5 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 2.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.3× in 2020

Merrick Pet Care's TCR rose 1.2 from 1.3 in 2019 to 2.5 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0.3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311111 · St. Louis, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.9 · 50% of ind

DART 0.6 DART
RANK #2/9
PHOTO Hill's Pet Nutrition
BOOK 2y book
INJ 22 inj
SIZE ~508 FTE

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

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Hill's Topeka

2
Carnivore Meat

2
This site

1.9
Hill's Pet Nut

1.9
Cargill Pro-pe

1.9

What this shows Merrick Pet Care averages 1.9 TCR (50% of the Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Merrick Pet Care TCR series: 2019=1.3 · 2020=2.5 · BLS 3.9

Where Merrick Pet Care falls in its industry

302 Pet food, dog and cat, manufac establishments

Safer than 75% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 9 Pet food, dog and cat, manufac employers in Illinois.

Merrick Pet Care (508 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 103 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Merrick Pet Care has more employees than the Pet food, dog and cat, 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
2020	2.5	0.6	12	1	0
2019	1.3	1.3	10	1	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311111 · IL · St. Louis

302 Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Hill's Pet Nutrition	CLINTON, OK	1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Cargill Pro-pet St. Mary	ST MARYS, OH	1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Hill's Topeka Mfg	TOPEKA, KS	2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Carnivore Meat Company - Yeager	GREEN BAY, WI	2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Pella Corporation Macomb Operations	MACOMB	508 FTE
STATE-SIZE	71215	CHICAGO	509 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Graham Hospital	CANTON	507 FTE
STATE-SIZE	SAE-EFFINGHAM-3 HSHS ST ANTHONY S MEMORIAL HOSP	EFFINGHAM	509 FTE
CITY-NEAR	79 St Louis	St. Louis	18 FTE
NAT-TCR	DGS Aviation Services : ORF - Norfolk	Norfolk, VA	1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	1 Murray Road	East Hanover, NJ	1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	Consolidated Pipe & Supply Co. Inc. - Lawrenceville, GA	Lawrenceville, GA	1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	Ross store 556	Hiram, GA	1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Hudick Excavating, Inc.	Castle Rock, CO	508 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Star Tribune Media Holdings, Old Startribune Holding Bldg	Minneapolis, MN	508 FTE
NAT-SIZE	8790 Socal Framing	Indio, CA	508 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Libbey Shreveport Plant	Shreveport, LA	508 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: 2020, 2019. 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.