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

Nestle Purina Petcare

Crete, NE · ~533 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

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

Nestle Purina Petcare 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: 1.0 TCR = 25% of Dog and cat food (e.g., canned, dry, frozen, semimoist), manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nestle Purina Petcare safety composite

Nestle Purina Petcare 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).

B

76/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.8

2016→2024

Nestle Purina Petcare injury rate improved

Nestle Purina Petcare's TCR fell 0.8 from 1.5 in 2016 to 0.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 1.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.5 · 2018=0.9 · 2019=0.6 · 2020=0.9 · 2021=1.1 · 2023=1.4 · 2024=0.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311111 · Crete, NE AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.0 · 25% of ind

  • DART 0.3 DART
  • RANK #1/17
  • PHOTO KAN
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 40 inj
  • SIZE ~533 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: KAN (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 1.0 TCR (25% of the Dog and cat food (e.g., canned, dry, frozen, semimoist), 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=1.5 · 2018=0.9 · 2019=0.6 · 2020=0.9 · 2021=1.1 · 2023=1.4 · 2024=0.7 · BLS 3.9

Where Nestle Purina Petcare 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.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Nebraska alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 17 Dog and cat food (e.g., canned employers in Nebraska.

Nestle Purina Petcare (533 employees, TCR 1.0) 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 (533 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 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
2024 0.7 0.3 4 0 0
2023 1.4 0.7 8 0 0
2021 1.1 0.3 6 0 0
2020 0.9 0.5 5 0 0
2019 0.6 0.4 2 1 0
2018 0.9 0.3 6 0 0
2016 1.5 0.8 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311111 · NE · Crete

302 Dog and cat food (e.g., canned, dry, frozen, semimoist), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 3,594 rated employers in Nebraska with headcount on file · 16 employers in Crete, NE · 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 KAN 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nestle Purina Pet Care 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nestle Purina PetCare-Mechanicsburg 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nestle Purina PetCare - Hartwell 1.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE M.G. Wauldbaum Co. Wakefield 533 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lincoln Industries - Main Plant 531 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sysco Lincoln, NE 535 FTE
STATE-SIZE Majors Plastics Inc 536 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smithfield 2,156 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smithfield Foods 1,775 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4322 172 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 4322 160 FTE
NAT-TCR West DOC 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Dart Container Mason Cup Mfg. 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Human Service Center Swinburne 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Brooksville RPC 1.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Aristeo Construction 533 FTE
NAT-SIZE Extang 533 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wholesale Electric Supply Co of Houston Inc 533 FTE
NAT-SIZE Charter Construction 533 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.