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

Nestle Purina PetCare-Mechanicsburg

Name: Nestle Purina PetCare-Mechanicsburg Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Mechanicsburg, PA · ~398 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-Mechanicsburg 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-Mechanicsburg: 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-Mechanicsburg safety composite

Nestle Purina PetCare-Mechanicsburg 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).

69/100

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 1.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% 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-Mechanicsburg: 0.5 → 1.4 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 1.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.23× in 2023

Nestle Purina PetCare-Mechanicsburg's TCR rose 0.9 from 0.5 in 2020 to 1.4 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.23× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311111 · Mechanicsburg, PA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.0 · 25% of ind

DART 1.2 DART
RANK #3/23
PHOTO Nestle Purina Pet Care
BOOK 2y book
INJ 5 inj
SIZE ~398 FTE

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

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

Nestle Purina PetCare-Mechanicsburg TCR series: 2020=0.5 · 2023=1.4 · BLS 3.9

Where Nestle Purina PetCare-Mechanicsburg 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 Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 23 Dog and cat food (e.g., canned employers in Pennsylvania.

Nestle Purina PetCare-Mechanicsburg (398 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-Mechanicsburg 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
2023	1.4	1.2	4	2	0
2020	0.5	0.5	1	1	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311111 · PA · Mechanicsburg

302 Dog and cat food (e.g., canned, dry, frozen, semimoist), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 219 employers in Mechanicsburg, PA · 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 - Hartwell	HARTWELL, GA	1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Nestle Purina Petcare	CRETE, NE	1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	KAN	KANSAS CITY, MO	1.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Henkels & McCoy, Pennsylvania - Blue Bell - Power	BLUE BELL	398 FTE
STATE-SIZE	WM 2561	ERIE	398 FTE
STATE-SIZE	00000022 0022 BETHEL DC	BETHEL	398 FTE
STATE-SIZE	2576-44	AMBLER	398 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Naval Support Activity Mechanicsburg PA	Mechanicsburg	2,769 FTE
CITY-NEAR	EFC3	Mechanicsburg	740 FTE
CITY-NEAR	HARRISBURG (PAMBG)	Mechanicsburg	701 FTE
CITY-NEAR	PAMBG - HARRISBURG	Mechanicsburg	606 FTE
NAT-TCR	Unit #2785	Grandville, MI	1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	Tomball Plant	Tomball, TX	1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	Otis Elevator Company-Norfolk VA	Virginia Beach, VA	1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	Rock Valley Tool, LLC	Easthampton, MA	1.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Mattel RS Inc	El Segundo, CA	398 FTE
NAT-SIZE	WALLULA WA (Mill)	Wallula, WA	398 FTE
NAT-SIZE	St Louis Mo (One Union 70)	St Louis, MO	398 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Pipe Fabrication Baton Rouge LA	Port Allen, LA	398 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: 2023, 2020. 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.