Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing · Iowa

Nestle Purina PetCare

Davenport, IA · ~486 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

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

Nestle Purina PetCare runs at 33% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Nestle Purina PetCare: 1.3 TCR = 33% of Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nestle Purina PetCare safety composite

Nestle Purina PetCare 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).

C

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% 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: 0.6 → 1.4 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 2.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.67× in 2024

Nestle Purina PetCare's TCR rose 0.8 from 0.6 in 2016 to 1.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 2.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade A · TCR 1.3 · 33% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #2/10
  • PHOTO Hill's Pet Nutrition…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 33 inj
  • SIZE ~486 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hill's Pet Nutrition Inc., Bowling Green Facility (0.0 TCR gap)

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Nestle Purina PetCare in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Nestle Purina PetCare averages 1.3 TCR (33% 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 TCR series: 2016=0.6 · 2017=0.4 · 2019=2.4 · 2022=1.7 · 2023=1.4 · 2024=1.4 · BLS 3.9

Where Nestle Purina PetCare falls in its industry

302 Pet food, dog and cat, manufac establishments

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

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 10 Pet food, dog and cat, manufac employers in Iowa.

Nestle Purina PetCare (486 employees, TCR 1.3) 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
Nestle Purina PetCare (486 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 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 1.4 0.9 5 3 0
2023 1.4 1.2 8 0 0
2022 1.7 1.4 10 0 0
2019 2.4 1.6 8 4 0
2017 0.4 0.2 0 2 0
2016 0.6 0.4 2 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311111 · IA · Davenport

302 Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 284 employers in Davenport, IA · 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 Hill's Pet Nutrition Inc., Bowling Green Facility 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR ARK 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR NCH 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR MCB 1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE DuPont Pioneer Johnston Campus - JH60 Franklin 486 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Dubuque - Public Works 486 FTE
STATE-SIZE Iowa State Penitentiary 486 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pella Corporation Carroll Site 485 FTE
CITY-NEAR MercyOne-Genesis, East Hospital-MHS-IA/NE 2,129 FTE
CITY-NEAR Genesis Medical Center East Campus 1,704 FTE
CITY-NEAR John Deere Davenport Works 1,394 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - MLI1 1,353 FTE
NAT-TCR Scottsdale Hilton Garden Inn 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Manufacturing 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Kunia, HI - Lower Kunia 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Herr Foods - 063 Hampton VA 1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Rev-A-Shelf, LLC 486 FTE
NAT-SIZE OH_North Canton_5520 Whipple Ave NW_41000300 486 FTE
NAT-SIZE Department of Administration 486 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mission Foods- Mountain Top Plant 486 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, 2023, 2022, 2019, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.