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

Nestle Purina Pet Care

Fort Dodge, IA · ~280 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.8
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Nestle Purina Pet Care 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.

Nestle Purina Pet Care: 2.8 TCR = 73% of Dog and cat food (e.g., canned, dry, frozen, semimoist), manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nestle Purina Pet Care safety composite

Nestle Purina Pet Care scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 58% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 50%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% 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 Care held a steady TCR band

Nestle Purina Pet Care's TCR held near 0.1 from 2.8 in 2023 to 2.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.57× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=2.8 · 2024=2.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade B · TCR 2.8 · 73% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #5/10
  • PHOTO AGRICULTURAL COMMODI…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~280 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES INC (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 2.8 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

Nestle Purina Pet Care TCR series: 2023=2.8 · 2024=2.9 · BLS 3.9

Where Nestle Purina Pet Care falls in its industry

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

Safer than 58% 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 #5 safest of 10 Dog and cat food (e.g., canned employers in Iowa.

Nestle Purina Pet Care (280 employees, TCR 2.8) 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 Pet Care
Nestle Purina Pet Care (280 employees, TCR 2.8) 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 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 2.9 1.6 7 2 0
2023 2.8 1.0 6 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311111 · IA · Fort Dodge

302 Dog and cat food (e.g., canned, dry, frozen, semimoist), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 75 employers in Fort Dodge, 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 AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES INC 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Heartland Pet Food Manufacturing Indiana LLC 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR K221-M001 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Heart Pet Brands 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Clow Valve Company - Machine Shop 279 FTE
STATE-SIZE DuPont Pioneer Johnston Campus - JH33 Reid 279 FTE
STATE-SIZE Medical Associates East 281 FTE
STATE-SIZE Guardian Industries - DeWitt 278 FTE
CITY-NEAR UnityPoint Health - Trinity Regional Medical Center 790 FTE
CITY-NEAR Unity Point Trinity Regional Medical Center 648 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fort Dodge Terminal 539 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fort Dodge Correctional Facility 452 FTE
NAT-TCR KZ Valve, LLC 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 0415-Chillicothe 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Dynisco Instruments 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Giant 320 2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Amherst 280 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cabinetworks Group 280 FTE
NAT-SIZE Guy M. Turner, Inc. 280 FTE
NAT-SIZE 194 - DET Nashville 280 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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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.