Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing · Iowa

Nestle Purina Clinton IA

Clinton, IA · ~496 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.7
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Nestle Purina Clinton IA runs at 18% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Nestle Purina Clinton IA: 0.7 TCR = 18% of Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nestle Purina Clinton IA safety composite

Nestle Purina Clinton IA scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 95% 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).

B

77/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 95% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% 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%).

Nestle Purina Clinton IA held a steady TCR band

Nestle Purina Clinton IA's TCR held near 0.2 from 1.0 in 2017 to 0.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 1.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.47× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=1.0 · 2018=0.3 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.6 · 2022=1.0 · 2023=1.2 · 2024=0.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311111 · Clinton, IA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.7 · 18% of ind

  • DART 0.3 DART
  • RANK #1/10
  • PHOTO Alltech
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~496 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Alltech (0.0 TCR gap)

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Nestle Purina Clinton IA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Nestle Purina Clinton IA averages 0.7 TCR (18% of the Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Nestle Purina Clinton IA TCR series: 2017=1 · 2018=0.3 · 2020=0 · 2021=0.6 · 2022=1 · 2023=1.2 · 2024=0.8 · BLS 3.9

Where Nestle Purina Clinton IA falls in its industry

302 Pet food, dog and cat, manufac establishments

Safer than 95% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 10 Pet food, dog and cat, manufac employers in Iowa.

Nestle Purina Clinton IA (496 employees, TCR 0.7) 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 Nestle Purina Clinton IA
Nestle Purina Clinton IA (496 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 103 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Nestle Purina Clinton IA 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
2024 0.8 0.3 5 0 0
2023 1.2 0.3 7 0 0
2022 1.0 0.2 5 0 0
2021 0.6 0.2 3 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.3 0.0 0 1 0
2017 1.0 1.0 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311111 · IA · Clinton

302 Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 78 employers in Clinton, IA · 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 Alltech 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hiawatha Feed Plant 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Purina 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR TFH Publications Inc. - Neptune City 0.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Waverly Store 496 FTE
STATE-SIZE Core-Mark Midcontinent, Inc. dba Farner-Bocken 498 FTE
STATE-SIZE Davenport Corporate Office 493 FTE
STATE-SIZE Peterson Contractors Inc 499 FTE
CITY-NEAR Clinton Corn Plant 641 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Medical Center North Campus 592 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Medical Center-North Campus-MHS-IA/NE 513 FTE
CITY-NEAR DMS Clinton 386 FTE
NAT-TCR Wilmington Precision Machining, Inc. 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR ACE- Atlantic Regional Office 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Eppendorf North America 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Longhorn Plant 0.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bridgewater Complex 496 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wastewater Enterprise 496 FTE
NAT-SIZE Division 7 496 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Higbee Company, LLC 496 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, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.