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

RPC Freeze Dry

Lincoln, NE · ~95 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.8
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

RPC Freeze Dry runs at 175% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Dog and cat food (e.g., canned, dry, frozen, semimoist), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

RPC Freeze Dry: 6.8 TCR = 175% of Dog and cat food (e.g., canned, dry, frozen, semimoist), manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

RPC Freeze Dry safety composite

RPC Freeze Dry scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 63% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 18%), 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).

D

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% 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

−2.6

2019→2022

RPC Freeze Dry injury rate improved

RPC Freeze Dry's TCR fell 2.6 from 7.3 in 2019 to 4.7 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2020 at 11.8 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.14× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=7.3 · 2020=11.8 · 2021=3.5 · 2022=4.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311111 · Lincoln, NE ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.8 · 175% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #14/17
  • PHOTO Darling Ravenna 270
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 25 inj
  • SIZE ~95 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Darling Ravenna 270 (0.0 TCR gap)

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RPC Freeze Dry in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows RPC Freeze Dry averages 6.8 TCR (175% 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

RPC Freeze Dry TCR series: 2019=7.3 · 2020=11.8 · 2021=3.5 · 2022=4.7 · BLS 3.9

Where RPC Freeze Dry falls in its industry

302 Dog and cat food (e.g., canned establishments

Safer than 18% 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 #14 safest of 17 Dog and cat food (e.g., canned employers in Nebraska.

RPC Freeze Dry (95 employees, TCR 6.8) 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 RPC Freeze Dry
RPC Freeze Dry (95 employees, TCR 6.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 103 employees and a TCR of 3.3

RPC Freeze Dry has fewer employees than the Dog and cat food (e.g., canned, dry, fro 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
2022 4.7 0.9 5 0 0
2021 3.5 0.9 4 0 0
2020 11.8 4.7 10 0 0
2019 7.3 1.2 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311111 · NE · Lincoln

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 · 496 employers in Lincoln, 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 Darling Ravenna 270 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR SFD Opco, LLC 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Carnivore Meat Company 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kelly Foods Corporation 7.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Main Office 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lueder Construction Company 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rabe's Quality Meat, Inc. 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE OFC Development Corp 95 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nelnet Servicing LLC 2,850 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nelnet - Lincoln HQ 2,491 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bryan East Campus 2,358 FTE
CITY-NEAR FACTS Education Corporation 1,986 FTE
NAT-TCR McCandless 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 5472-NAI-0034-0034-00730 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 1139 Danvers 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR G&J Pepsi- Columbus 6.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Savannah Container 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE Arden Place of Beaumont 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE Columbus East 38410 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4186 Cedar Rapids Box Plant 95 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.