Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing · Pennsylvania

NPPC Allentown

Allentown, PA · ~453 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

NPPC Allentown runs at 37% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

NPPC Allentown: 1.4 TCR = 37% of Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

NPPC Allentown safety composite

NPPC Allentown scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 83% 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

71/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% 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%).

NPPC Allentown held a steady TCR band

NPPC Allentown's TCR held near 0.2 from 1.3 in 2016 to 1.5 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 2.4 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.53× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.3 · 2017=2.4 · 2018=0.6 · 2019=1.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade A · TCR 1.4 · 37% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #5/23
  • PHOTO Merrick's Inc
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~453 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Merrick's Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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NPPC Allentown in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows NPPC Allentown averages 1.4 TCR (37% 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

NPPC Allentown TCR series: 2016=1.3 · 2017=2.4 · 2018=0.6 · 2019=1.5 · BLS 3.9

Where NPPC Allentown falls in its industry

302 Pet food, dog and cat, manufac establishments

Safer than 83% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 23 Pet food, dog and cat, manufac employers in Pennsylvania.

NPPC Allentown (453 employees, TCR 1.4) 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 NPPC Allentown
NPPC Allentown (453 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 103 employees and a TCR of 3.3

NPPC Allentown 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
2019 1.5 0.8 8 0 0
2018 0.6 0.0 2 1 0
2017 2.4 1.2 5 7 0
2016 1.3 0.6 4 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311111 · PA · Allentown

302 Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 447 employers in Allentown, PA · 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 Merrick's Inc 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Diamond Pet Foods - Gaston 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR PCB - Perfection Pet Foods Kibble 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Diamond Pet Foods 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE West Pharmaceutical Services Inc. - Jersey Shore 453 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ace Hardware Retail Support Center (Fredericksburg) 453 FTE
STATE-SIZE EQT Corporation - Pittsburgh 454 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brand Energy Services, LLC - Pittsburgh 452 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lehigh Valley Hospital 9,463 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1200SCC 6,531 FTE
CITY-NEAR Air Products and Chemicals Inc.- Main Campus 2,118 FTE
CITY-NEAR LOCATION 48042 1,728 FTE
NAT-TCR Recommunity Camden 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 283 - Winchester 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Eugene, or/Cascades District 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Woodview Home 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Village of Arlington Heights 453 FTE
NAT-SIZE Indian Springs Sch Dist 109 453 FTE
NAT-SIZE Load Trail - Sumner 453 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bedford - 174 Middlesex Pkwy 453 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: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.