Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing · Ohio

South Mill

Fort Recovery, OH · ~38 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

South Mill runs at 39% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

South Mill: 1.5 TCR = 39% of Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

South Mill safety composite

South Mill scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 90% 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

77/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% 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

−3.0

2016→2019

South Mill injury rate improved

South Mill's TCR fell 3.0 from 3.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 3.1 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.0 · 2017=3.1 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311111 · Fort Recovery, OH AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.5 · 39% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #5/15
  • PHOTO Cargill/Pro Pet LLC
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~38 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cargill/Pro Pet LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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South Mill in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows South Mill averages 1.5 TCR (39% of the Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

South Mill TCR series: 2016=3 · 2017=3.1 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · BLS 3.9

Where South Mill falls in its industry

302 Animal feed mills, dog and cat establishments

Safer than 81% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 15 Animal feed mills, dog and cat employers in Ohio.

South Mill (38 employees, TCR 1.5) 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 South Mill
South Mill (38 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 103 employees and a TCR of 3.3

South Mill has fewer employees than the Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufact 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 3.1 3.1 1 0 0
2016 3.0 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311111 · OH · Fort Recovery

302 Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 18 employers in Fort Recovery, OH · 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 Cargill/Pro Pet LLC 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Buffalo Milk-Bone 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Heartland Petfood Manufacturing Indiana, LLC 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Diamond Pet Foods 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Verano OH CPG - Mothers Grow Best 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Green Velvet Sod Farms 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pride Transportation Co, Inc 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Union City 38 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cheeseman LLC 439 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fort Recovery Industries 240 FTE
CITY-NEAR Turkey Service Building 196 FTE
CITY-NEAR J & M Manufacturing Co., Inc. 161 FTE
NAT-TCR Centennial Operations 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR US NC Greensboro Plant 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR US NJ Edison 5000 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-Swy 0045 8277 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Wake County 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kinghorn Gardens 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE O-Ku Sushi Charleston 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE 234014-Greenbelt Po 38 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.