Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing · Minnesota

Tuffy's Pet Foods

Perham, MN · ~283 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Tuffy's Pet Foods runs at 127% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Tuffy's Pet Foods: 5.0 TCR = 127% of Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tuffy's Pet Foods safety composite

Tuffy's Pet Foods scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 34%), 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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% 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

−1.8

2016→2023

Tuffy's Pet Foods injury rate improved

Tuffy's Pet Foods's TCR fell 1.8 from 5.5 in 2016 to 3.7 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2019 at 7.2 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.52× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.5 · 2018=5.1 · 2019=7.2 · 2021=3.5 · 2022=4.9 · 2023=3.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311111 · Perham, MN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.0 · 127% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #6/12
  • PHOTO BHJ - FRESNO
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 73 inj
  • SIZE ~283 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: BHJ - FRESNO (0.0 TCR gap)

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Tuffy's Pet Foods in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Tuffy's Pet Foods averages 5.0 TCR (127% 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

Tuffy's Pet Foods TCR series: 2016=5.5 · 2018=5.1 · 2019=7.2 · 2021=3.5 · 2022=4.9 · 2023=3.7 · BLS 3.9

Where Tuffy's Pet Foods falls in its industry

302 Animal feed mills, dog and cat establishments

Safer than 34% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 12 Animal feed mills, dog and cat employers in Minnesota.

Tuffy's Pet Foods (283 employees, TCR 5.0) 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 Tuffy's Pet Foods
Tuffy's Pet Foods (283 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 103 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Tuffy's Pet Foods has more employees than the Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufact 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
2023 3.7 2.6 10 0 0
2022 4.9 3.8 12 1 0
2021 3.5 2.3 9 0 0
2019 7.2 3.6 16 6 0
2018 5.1 3.4 15 0 0
2016 5.5 2.7 11 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311111 · MN · Perham

302 Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 29 employers in Perham, MN · 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 BHJ - FRESNO 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Honest Kitchen Inc 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fromm Family Foods, LLC. 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR IsoNova Technologies LLC - Spencer 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE CommonBond: Corporate, AS, Small Sites 283 FTE
STATE-SIZE Orion ISO 283 FTE
STATE-SIZE St. Cloud Technical & Community College 283 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1200 Washington-Minneapolis 283 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3061_5905 552 FTE
CITY-NEAR Barrel O'Fun SNack Foods Co., LLC 516 FTE
CITY-NEAR Perham Health 484 FTE
CITY-NEAR Shearer's Foods - PHM 449 FTE
NAT-TCR John Rolfe Family YMCA 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Precision Metal Fabrication 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR American Synthetic Fiber LLC 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Grady General Hospital 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Axium New Albany Plant #2 283 FTE
NAT-SIZE Franciscan Physician Network Crown Point 283 FTE
NAT-SIZE Market Basket #78 283 FTE
NAT-SIZE Blue Water Developmental Housing 283 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 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.