Animal feeds, prepared, dog and cat, manufacturing · Texas

Nestle Purina Pet Car (Merrick Pet Care)

Name: Nestle Purina Pet Car (Merrick Pet Care) Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Hereford, TX · ~372 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 0.6
Avg TCR: 3.9
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Nestle Purina Pet Car (Merrick Pet Care) runs at 14% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Animal feeds, prepared, dog and cat, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Nestle Purina Pet Car (Merrick Pet Care): 0.6 TCR = 14% of Animal feeds, prepared, dog and cat, manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nestle Purina Pet Car (Merrick Pet Care) safety composite

Nestle Purina Pet Car (Merrick Pet Care) scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 96% 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).

78/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): A 0.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 96% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% 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 Pet Car (Merrick Pet Care) held a steady TCR band

Nestle Purina Pet Car (Merrick Pet Care)'s TCR held near 0.2 from 0.7 in 2023 to 0.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 0.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.41× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=0.7 · 2024=0.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311111 · Hereford, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.6 · 14% of ind

DART 0.2 DART
RANK #1/16
PHOTO PCB-Meadville
BOOK 2y book
INJ 1 inj
SIZE ~372 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: PCB-Meadville (0.0 TCR gap)

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0.6
PCB-Meadville

0.6
OHW

0.6
ARR

0.5
PCB-Bloomsburg

0.5

What this shows Nestle Purina Pet Car (Merrick Pet Care) averages 0.6 TCR (14% of the Animal feeds, prepared, dog and cat, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Nestle Purina Pet Car (Merrick Pet Care) TCR series: 2023=0.7 · 2024=0.5 · BLS 3.9

Where Nestle Purina Pet Car (Merrick Pet Care) falls in its industry

302 Animal feeds, prepared, dog an establishments

Safer than 96% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 16 Animal feeds, prepared, dog an employers in Texas.

Nestle Purina Pet Car (Merrick Pet Care) (372 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 103 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Nestle Purina Pet Car (Merrick Pet Care) has more employees than the Animal feeds, prepared, dog and cat, man 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	0.5	0.2	1	1	0
2023	0.7	0.0	0	3	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311111 · TX · Hereford

302 Animal feeds, prepared, dog and cat, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 38 employers in Hereford, TX · 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	PCB-Meadville	MEADVILLE, PA	0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	OHW	WASHINGTON COURT HOUSE, OH	0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	ARR	RUSSELLVILLE, AR	0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	PCB-Bloomsburg DC	BLOOMSBURG, PA	0.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Murphy Exploration and Production Co. (Houston Office)	HOUSTON	372 FTE
STATE-SIZE	ExxonMobil Baytown Refinery Baytown TX - BSL	BAYTOWN	372 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Chevron Phillips Chemical Company, Pasadena	PASADENA, TEXAS	372 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Fairview	HOUSTON	372 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Caviness Beef	Hereford	1,334 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Caviness	Hereford	781 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Merrick Petcare	Hereford	366 FTE
CITY-NEAR	3384	Hereford	238 FTE
NAT-TCR	Miami	Miami, OK	0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Northeast Electronics Corp.	Milford, CT	0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Singota Solutions	Bloomington, IN	0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Schenker Logistics, Iowa City/West Branch	West Branch, IA	0.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE	General Mills Albuquerque	Albuquerque, NM	372 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Western Zirconium	Ogden, UT	372 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Amazon.com Services LLC - SCA3	Richmond, CA	372 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Amazon.com Services LLC - DNA4	Memphis, TN	372 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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