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

NEA

Aurora, NE · ~159 workers · 9 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

NEA runs at 73% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Dog and cat food (e.g., canned, dry, frozen, semimoist), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

NEA: 2.9 TCR = 73% of Dog and cat food (e.g., canned, dry, frozen, semimoist), manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

NEA safety composite

NEA scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 57% 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

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.41 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

NEA: 1.1 → 3.4 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 5.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.84× in 2024

NEA's TCR rose 2.4 from 1.1 in 2016 to 3.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 5.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.84× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade B · TCR 2.9 · 73% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK #5/17
  • PHOTO Hills Pet Nutrition
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 34 inj
  • SIZE ~159 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hills Pet Nutrition (0.0 TCR gap)

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NEA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows NEA averages 2.9 TCR (73% 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

NEA TCR series: 2016=1.1 · 2017=4.9 · 2018=3.4 · 2019=3.4 · 2020=1.3 · 2021=1.7 · 2022=5.5 · 2023=0.9 · 2024=3.4 · BLS 3.9

Where NEA falls in its industry

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

Safer than 57% 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 #5 safest of 17 Dog and cat food (e.g., canned employers in Nebraska.

NEA (159 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 NEA
NEA (159 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 103 employees and a TCR of 3.3

NEA has more employees than the Dog and cat food (e.g., canned, dry, fro 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 3.4 2.4 9 1 0
2023 0.9 0.5 2 0 0
2022 5.5 3.8 7 3 0
2021 1.7 0.6 2 1 0
2020 1.3 0.0 1 1 0
2019 3.4 0.0 3 1 0
2018 3.4 3.4 4 0 0
2017 4.9 2.5 5 1 0
2016 1.1 0.3 1 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311111 · NE · Aurora

302 Dog and cat food (e.g., canned, dry, frozen, semimoist), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 3,594 rated employers in Nebraska with headcount on file · 17 employers in Aurora, 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 Hills Pet Nutrition 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Red Collar Pet Foods SBE 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR K221-M001 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES INC 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE 1155.1-Waco, NE 159 FTE
STATE-SIZE NORTH PLATTE NE - 3194 159 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Community Supports Network, Inc. - Lincoln 159 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mosaic Grand Island 159 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bonnavilla Homes 165 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aurora Cooperative - Corporate Office 120 FTE
CITY-NEAR Westfield Quality Care of Aurora 107 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aurora (West Highway 34) 80 FTE
NAT-TCR Meriter West Washington 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Universal Forest Products 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Colorado Office 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR PCSI Location 720 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE XCEL Erectors, Inc. 159 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mid West Fabricating - Amanda 159 FTE
NAT-SIZE Applied Engineering, Inc. 159 FTE
NAT-SIZE GRV 159 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.