Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing · California

Primal Pet Foods

Fairfield, CA · ~169 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.5
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Primal Pet Foods runs at 243% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Primal Pet Foods: 9.5 TCR = 243% of Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Primal Pet Foods safety composite

Primal Pet Foods scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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).

F

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 13.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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

Primal Pet Foods: 4.6 → 13.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 13.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.38× in 2024

Primal Pet Foods's TCR rose 8.5 from 4.6 in 2017 to 13.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.38× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311111 · Fairfield, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 9.5 · 243% of ind

  • DART 13.1 DART
  • RANK #19/20
  • PHOTO NAPP Manufacturing LLC
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 90 inj
  • SIZE ~169 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: NAPP Manufacturing LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Primal Pet Foods in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Primal Pet Foods averages 9.5 TCR (243% 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

Primal Pet Foods TCR series: 2017=4.6 · 2018=10.6 · 2022=9.9 · 2023=9.2 · 2024=13.1 · BLS 3.9

Where Primal Pet Foods falls in its industry

302 Pet food, dog and cat, manufac establishments

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #19 safest of 20 Pet food, dog and cat, manufac employers in California.

Primal Pet Foods (169 employees, TCR 9.5) 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 Primal Pet Foods
Primal Pet Foods (169 employees, TCR 9.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 103 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Primal Pet Foods has more employees than the Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing median and a higher 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 13.1 13.1 22 0 0
2023 9.2 9.2 21 0 0
2022 9.9 9.9 24 0 0
2018 10.6 10.0 18 0 0
2017 4.6 4.6 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311111 · CA · Fairfield

302 Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 172 employers in Fairfield, CA · 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 NAPP Manufacturing LLC 9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Newport 9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Darling Ingredients Inc. 9.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Evergood Sausage Co 9.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Adam Gutierrez 169 FTE
STATE-SIZE E & C LABOR SERVICES INC 169 FTE
STATE-SIZE MALAGA SHIPPING 169 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cal-South Harvesting, Inc. 169 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 108 2,817 FTE
CITY-NEAR NorthBay Healthcare Medical Center 1,086 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jelly Belly Candy Company 511 FTE
CITY-NEAR Universal Propulsion Company (Fairfield CA) 460 FTE
NAT-TCR Regency Plastics - Ubly, Inc. dba Sierra Plastics, Inc. 9.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Kynect Express, LLC. 9.5 TCR
NAT-TCR ABF Freight 196 9.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Winter Park Fl 9.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Columbus McKinnon - Wadesboro 169 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dot Foods, Inc. Vidalia, GA 169 FTE
NAT-SIZE Leaders Furniture Distribution Center 169 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1702 Pearl City 169 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, 2018, 2017. 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.