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

Nestle Purina PetCare - Hartwell

Name: Nestle Purina PetCare - Hartwell Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Hartwell, GA · ~231 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 1.0
Avg TCR: 3.9
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Nestle Purina PetCare - Hartwell runs at 25% 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 - Hartwell: 1.0 TCR = 25% of Dog and cat food (e.g., canned, dry, frozen, semimoist), manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nestle Purina PetCare - Hartwell safety composite

Nestle Purina PetCare - Hartwell scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 91% 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).

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): A 0.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% of industry peers
DART rate: C 1.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% 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 - Hartwell: 0.6 → 1.4 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 1.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.05× in 2020

Nestle Purina PetCare - Hartwell's TCR rose 0.8 from 0.6 in 2019 to 1.4 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.05× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311111 · Hartwell, GA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.0 · 25% of ind

DART 1.0 DART
RANK #3/11
PHOTO Nestle Purina Pet Care
BOOK 2y book
INJ 5 inj
SIZE ~231 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Nestle Purina Pet Care (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Nestle Purina PetCare - Hartwell averages 1.0 TCR (25% of the Dog and cat food (e.g., canned, dry, frozen, semimoist), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Nestle Purina PetCare - Hartwell TCR series: 2019=0.6 · 2020=1.4 · BLS 3.9

Where Nestle Purina PetCare - Hartwell falls in its industry

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

Safer than 91% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Georgia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 11 Dog and cat food (e.g., canned employers in Georgia.

Nestle Purina PetCare - Hartwell (231 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 103 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Nestle Purina PetCare - Hartwell 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
2020	1.4	1.0	4	0	0
2019	0.6	0.6	1	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311111 · GA · Hartwell

302 Dog and cat food (e.g., canned, dry, frozen, semimoist), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 14,941 rated employers in Georgia with headcount on file · 27 employers in Hartwell, GA · 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	Nestle Purina Pet Care	HARTWELL, GA	1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Nestle Purina PetCare-Mechanicsburg	MECHANICSBURG, PA	1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Nestle Purina Petcare	CRETE, NE	1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	KAN	KANSAS CITY, MO	1.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Monrovia Nursery Company	CAIRO	231 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Nestle Health Science	SAVANNAH	231 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Pharma Tech Industries	ROYSTON	231 FTE
STATE-SIZE	SON Manufacturing Plant	SAVANNAH	231 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Lake Foods LLC	Hartwell	436 FTE
CITY-NEAR	WM 1111	Hartwell	307 FTE
CITY-NEAR	1111	Hartwell	279 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Store 066	Hartwell	153 FTE
NAT-TCR	West Memphis	West Memphis, TN	1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	Pediatric Associates - Easley	Easley, SC	1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	Aslpundh Tree Expert LLC-46	East Windsor, CT	1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	UHA Chestnut Ridge Center	Morgantown, WV	1.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Delsea Shoprite	Vineland, NJ	231 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Chicago - GLCC	Chicago, IL	231 FTE
NAT-SIZE	MMCRI - 81Research / 81 Reseach Dr. - Scarborough	Portland, ME	231 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Fairview Odd Fellows Home of CT	Groton, CT	231 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. 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.