Animal fats rendering · Kentucky

39-2495346

Butler, KY · ~53 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

39-2495346 runs at 153% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Animal fats rendering workplace, earning a grade D.

39-2495346: 5.0 TCR = 153% of Animal fats rendering BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

39-2495346 safety composite

39-2495346 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 23%), 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)
D 5.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

39-2495346: 2.9 → 8.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 8.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.27× in 2024

39-2495346's TCR rose 5.1 from 2.9 in 2020 to 8.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.27× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311613 · Butler, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.0 · 153% of ind

  • DART 6.4 DART
  • RANK #1/4
  • PHOTO Darling Ingredients …
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~53 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Darling Ingredients Inc. Hampton (0.1 TCR gap)

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39-2495346 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 39-2495346 averages 5.0 TCR (153% of the Animal fats rendering BLS benchmark).

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

39-2495346 TCR series: 2020=2.9 · 2021=6.1 · 2022=3.3 · 2023=4.9 · 2024=8 · BLS 3.3

Where 39-2495346 falls in its industry

151 Animal fats rendering establishments

Safer than 53% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 4 Animal fats rendering employers in Kentucky.

39-2495346 (53 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 46 employees and a TCR of 5.6 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 050100150 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate 39-2495346
39-2495346 (53 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 46 employees and a TCR of 5.6

39-2495346 has more employees than the Animal fats rendering median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.6. 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 8.0 6.4 5 0 0
2023 4.9 1.6 3 0 0
2022 3.3 3.3 2 0 0
2021 6.1 4.6 4 0 0
2020 2.9 2.9 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311613 · KY · Butler

151 Animal fats rendering employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 7 employers in Butler, KY · 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 Ingredients Inc. Hampton 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR RVI-Cuthbert 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Resource Recovery Plant 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR SMITHFIELD - Godwin 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hazard Service Center 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Glasgow Water Company 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Henry's Plumbing 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Youngblood Excavating & Contracting Inc. 53 FTE
CITY-NEAR Butler Hauling Operations and Sanitary Landfill 166 FTE
CITY-NEAR River Valley Nursing Home 87 FTE
CITY-NEAR Butler Rendering 57 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jay Gee Manufacturing Plant 1 45 FTE
NAT-TCR Maxine Hall Health Center 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR OVB HOLDINGS LLC DBA OVERBUILT and DBA EASIPOUR 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Desert Cove 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Industrial TX Corp 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Brockway Mechanical DesMoines 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Clbv Associates, LLC 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Myrtle Beach 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cartersville Shop 53 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, 2021, 2020. 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.