Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing · New York

Nestle Purina Pet Care

Dunkirk, NY · ~529 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.7
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Nestle Purina Pet Care runs at 44% 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: 1.7 TCR = 44% of Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nestle Purina Pet Care safety composite

Nestle Purina Pet Care scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 77% 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).

C

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Nestle Purina Pet Care: 1.6 → 2.1 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 2.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.92× in 2020

Nestle Purina Pet Care's TCR rose 0.5 from 1.6 in 2017 to 2.1 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0.92× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311111 · Dunkirk, NY AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.7 · 44% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #3/10
  • PHOTO Cargill Owatonna
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 26 inj
  • SIZE ~529 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cargill Owatonna (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 1.7 TCR (44% 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: 2017=1.6 · 2019=1.5 · 2020=2.1 · BLS 3.9

Where Nestle Purina Pet Care falls in its industry

302 Animal feed mills, dog and cat establishments

Safer than 77% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 10 Animal feed mills, dog and cat employers in New York.

Nestle Purina Pet Care (529 employees, TCR 1.7) 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 Pet Care
Nestle Purina Pet Care (529 employees, TCR 1.7) 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
2020 2.1 1.6 13 0 0
2019 1.5 0.4 5 3 0
2017 1.6 1.2 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311111 · NY · Dunkirk

302 Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 34 employers in Dunkirk, NY · 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 Cargill Owatonna 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR KKM 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Symrise - Mondovi 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Champion Pet Foods 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Adco Electric 528 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 6041 530 FTE
STATE-SIZE St. Regis New York 528 FTE
STATE-SIZE Skanska Walsh Design-Build Joint Venture - LaGuardia Airport CTB Replacement Project 531 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fieldbrook Foods 497 FTE
CITY-NEAR Refresco Beverages US Inc 470 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chautauqua Nursing and Rehabiliation Center 315 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHAUTAUQUA NURSING AND REHABILITATION CENTER 265 FTE
NAT-TCR 2040 Hwy 75 North 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Kaivac Production 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Lowell International 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Southeast Georgia Health System Cooperative Health Services, Inc. 1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ceco Door 529 FTE
NAT-SIZE CyFair Volunteer Fire Department 529 FTE
NAT-SIZE East 529 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Buckeye 529 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: 2020, 2019, 2017. 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.