Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing · Ohio

Nestle Purina PetCare Co.

Zanesville, OH · ~128 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Nestle Purina PetCare Co. runs at 52% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Nestle Purina PetCare Co.: 2.0 TCR = 52% of Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nestle Purina PetCare Co. safety composite

Nestle Purina PetCare Co. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 90% 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).

C

73/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% 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

−3.8

2016→2024

Nestle Purina PetCare Co. injury rate improved

Nestle Purina PetCare Co.'s TCR fell 3.8 from 3.8 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 3.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.8 · 2019=1.6 · 2020=2.3 · 2021=2.5 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311111 · Zanesville, OH AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.0 · 52% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #7/15
  • PHOTO Diamond Pet Foods - …
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~128 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Diamond Pet Foods - Ripon (0.0 TCR gap)

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Nestle Purina PetCare Co. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Nestle Purina PetCare Co. averages 2.0 TCR (52% 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 PetCare Co. TCR series: 2016=3.8 · 2019=1.6 · 2020=2.3 · 2021=2.5 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.9

Where Nestle Purina PetCare Co. falls in its industry

302 Pet food, dog and cat, manufac establishments

Safer than 73% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 15 Pet food, dog and cat, manufac employers in Ohio.

Nestle Purina PetCare Co. (128 employees, TCR 2.0) 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 0200400600 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Nestle Purina PetCare Co.
Nestle Purina PetCare Co. (128 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 103 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Nestle Purina PetCare Co. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 2.5 0.8 3 0 0
2020 2.3 0.8 1 2 0
2019 1.6 0.0 2 0 0
2016 3.8 0.8 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311111 · OH · Zanesville

302 Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 139 employers in Zanesville, OH · 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 Diamond Pet Foods - Ripon 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stella & Chewy's Oak Creek, WI 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Carnivore Meat Company - Yeager 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Red Collar Pet Foods 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Monfort Heights 128 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schumacher Homes of Operations, Inc 128 FTE
STATE-SIZE Romanoff Electric Inc 128 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sexton Industrial 128 FTE
CITY-NEAR Genesis HealthCare Systems 3,395 FTE
CITY-NEAR Genesis HealthCare System 3,011 FTE
CITY-NEAR Zanesville DC 833 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0047-HES Zanesville 676 FTE
NAT-TCR Atlantic Aviation - SDF 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR WinTech 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Unger Enterprises LLC 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Giroux Glass, Inc. 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE PCS Company 128 FTE
NAT-SIZE 811 Route 33 Freehold NJ 128 FTE
NAT-SIZE Salem, or Container Plant 128 FTE
NAT-SIZE HSHS Good Shepherd Hospital 128 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2016. 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.