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

Nestle Purina Petcare Company

Name: Nestle Purina Petcare Company Workplace Safety Data
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Saint Joseph, MO · ~264 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 1.3
Avg TCR: 3.9
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Nestle Purina Petcare Company runs at 32% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Dog and cat food (e.g., canned, dry, frozen, semimoist), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Nestle Purina Petcare Company: 1.3 TCR = 32% of Dog and cat food (e.g., canned, dry, frozen, semimoist), manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nestle Purina Petcare Company safety composite

Nestle Purina Petcare Company scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 85% 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).

72/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 1.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% of industry peers
DART rate: C 0.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% 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 Petcare Company: 0.7 → 1.8 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 1.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.58× in 2018

Nestle Purina Petcare Company's TCR rose 1.1 from 0.7 in 2017 to 1.8 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.58× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311111 · Saint Joseph, MO AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.3 · 32% of ind

DART 0.7 DART
RANK #3/22
PHOTO ARK
BOOK 2y book
INJ 6 inj
SIZE ~264 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ARK (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Nestle Purina Petcare Company averages 1.3 TCR (32% of the Dog and cat food (e.g., canned, dry, frozen, semimoist), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Nestle Purina Petcare Company TCR series: 2017=0.7 · 2018=1.8 · BLS 3.9

Where Nestle Purina Petcare Company falls in its industry

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

Safer than 85% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Missouri alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 22 Dog and cat food (e.g., canned employers in Missouri.

Nestle Purina Petcare Company (264 employees, TCR 1.3) 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 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
2018	1.8	0.7	4	1	0
2017	0.7	0.7	2	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311111 · MO · Saint Joseph

302 Dog and cat food (e.g., canned, dry, frozen, semimoist), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,075 rated employers in Missouri with headcount on file · 76 employers in Saint Joseph, MO · 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	ARK	FT. SMITH, AR	1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	NCH	HENDERSON, NC	1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	MCB	MECHANICSBURG, PA	1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	TFH Publications Nylabone Products	NEPTUNE CITY, NJ	1.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Nestle Purina Petcare - Saint Joseph	SAINT JOSEPH	264 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Schenck Process LLC - Kansas City	KANSAS CITY	264 FTE
STATE-SIZE	St. Joseph DC	SAINT JOSEPH	264 FTE
STATE-SIZE	190	KENNETT	264 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Mosaic Medical Center- St. Joseph	Saint Joseph	4,130 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Mosaic Life Care Medical Center	Saint Joseph	3,939 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Triumph Foods, LLC	Saint Joseph	2,655 FTE
CITY-NEAR	WM 560	Saint Joseph	371 FTE
NAT-TCR	Kessler Marketing Group, Inc.	Youngstown, OH	1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	GM Global Technical Center	Warren, MI	1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Autoliv Nissin Brake America	Findlay, OH	1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	AG Manufacturing	Rochelle, IL	1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE	TG Gallagher	Cambridge, MA	264 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Rws Tx Dallas Southwest	Dallas, TX	264 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Watlow-Winona	Winona, MN	264 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Lake Mary - 655 Century Point	Lake Mary, FL	264 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: 2018, 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.