Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing · Georgia

Nestle Purina Pet Care

Hartwell, GA · ~629 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.0
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Nestle Purina Pet Care runs at 25% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Nestle Purina Pet Care: 1.0 TCR = 25% of Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nestle Purina Pet Care safety composite

Nestle Purina Pet Care scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 91% 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

75/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.5

2021→2024

Nestle Purina Pet Care injury rate improved

Nestle Purina Pet Care's TCR fell 0.5 from 1.3 in 2021 to 0.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 1.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.49× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=1.3 · 2022=0.5 · 2023=1.3 · 2024=0.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311111 · Hartwell, GA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.0 · 25% of ind

  • DART 0.5 DART
  • RANK #2/11
  • PHOTO Nestle Purina PetCar…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~629 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Nestle Purina PetCare-Mechanicsburg (0.0 TCR gap)

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Nestle Purina Pet Care in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Nestle Purina Pet Care averages 1.0 TCR (25% 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

Nestle Purina Pet Care TCR series: 2021=1.3 · 2022=0.5 · 2023=1.3 · 2024=0.8 · BLS 3.9

Where Nestle Purina Pet Care falls in its industry

302 Animal feed mills, dog and cat establishments

Safer than 91% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Georgia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 11 Animal feed mills, dog and cat employers in Georgia.

Nestle Purina Pet Care (629 employees, TCR 1.0) 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 0200400600800 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Nestle Purina Pet Care
Nestle Purina Pet Care (629 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 103 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Nestle Purina Pet Care 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
2024 0.8 0.5 4 3 0
2023 1.3 0.6 9 2 0
2022 0.5 0.3 6 0 0
2021 1.3 0.7 5 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311111 · GA · Hartwell

302 Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 14,941 rated employers in Georgia with headcount on file · 27 employers in Hartwell, GA · 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 Nestle Purina PetCare-Mechanicsburg 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nestle Purina PetCare - Hartwell 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nestle Purina Petcare 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR KAN 1.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE GLOCK Inc. 629 FTE
STATE-SIZE GLOVIS AMERICA WP 629 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2073-ASA-20730100-FO 629 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brand Industrial Services Inc. - Global Support Center 628 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lake Foods LLC 436 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1111 307 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1111 279 FTE
CITY-NEAR Store 066 153 FTE
NAT-TCR Steinberger Construction Inc 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Reynolds Consumer Products 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Preferred Medical Products- Simla 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Sensus-Uniontown 1.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Tnmem - Memphis Hub 629 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bartlett Regional Hospital 629 FTE
NAT-SIZE Thermo Fisher Scientific 629 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Father's Table - Country Club 629 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.