Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing · Iowa

Nestle Purina Petcare Company

Name: Nestle Purina Petcare Company Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Fort Dodge, IA · ~240 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 2.2
Avg TCR: 3.9
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Nestle Purina Petcare Company runs at 56% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Nestle Purina Petcare Company: 2.2 TCR = 56% of Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nestle Purina Petcare Company safety composite

Nestle Purina Petcare Company scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 71% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 47%), 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).

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 2.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% of industry peers
DART rate: D 1.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% 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 Petcare Company held a steady TCR band

Nestle Purina Petcare Company's TCR held near 0.0 from 2.0 in 2016 to 2.0 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2019 at 2.7 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.79× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.0 · 2017=2.0 · 2019=2.7 · 2022=2.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade B · TCR 2.2 · 56% of ind

DART 1.7 DART
RANK #3/10
PHOTO OHL
BOOK 4y book
INJ 19 inj
SIZE ~240 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: OHL (0.0 TCR gap)

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2.2
OHL

2.2
Main Plant

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Hill's Pet Nut

2.2
SBE

2.2

What this shows Nestle Purina Petcare Company averages 2.2 TCR (56% of the Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Nestle Purina Petcare Company TCR series: 2016=2 · 2017=2 · 2019=2.7 · 2022=2 · BLS 3.9

Where Nestle Purina Petcare Company falls in its industry

302 Pet food, dog and cat, manufac establishments

Safer than 71% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 10 Pet food, dog and cat, manufac employers in Iowa.

Nestle Purina Petcare Company (240 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 103 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Nestle Purina Petcare Company 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
2022	2.0	1.7	6	1
2019	2.7	0.8	4	3
2017	2.0	1.6	5	0
2016	2.0	0.8	4	1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311111 · IA · Fort Dodge

302 Pet food, dog and cat, 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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	OHL	LEIPSIC, OH	2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Main Plant	VISALIA, CA	2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Hill's Pet Nutrition Indiana Inc.	RICHMOND, IN	2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	SBE	SAN BERNADINO, CA	2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Iowa Fertilizer Company	WEVER	240 FTE
STATE-SIZE	The Wittern Group	CLIVE	240 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Crystal Group Inc	HIAWATHA	240 FTE
STATE-SIZE	784	MOUNT PLEASANT	240 FTE
CITY-NEAR	UnityPoint Health - Trinity Regional Medical Center	Fort Dodge	790 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Unity Point Trinity Regional Medical Center	Fort Dodge	648 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Fort Dodge Terminal	Fort Dodge	539 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Fort Dodge Correctional Facility	Fort Dodge	452 FTE
NAT-TCR	PPC Flexible Packaging	Rome, GA	2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Wholesale Equipment of Fresno, Inc.	Fresno, CA	2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	buybuy Baby Totowa	Totowa, NJ	2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	ASHTA Chemicals Inc.	Ashtabula, OH	2.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE	1118 - Spanish Fork Ut Whse	Spanish Fork, UT	240 FTE
NAT-SIZE	6458-ZWAN	Wayne, NJ	240 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Mease Manor	Dunedin, FL	240 FTE
NAT-SIZE	RTP	Durham, NC	240 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: 2022, 2019, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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