Meat and bone meal and tankage, produced in rendering plant · Kentucky

Butler Rendering

Butler, KY · ~57 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Butler Rendering runs at 338% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Meat and bone meal and tankage, produced in rendering plant workplace, earning a grade F.

Butler Rendering: 11.2 TCR = 338% of Meat and bone meal and tankage, produced in rendering plant BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Butler Rendering safety composite

Butler Rendering scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 9%), 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.0

2016→2019

Butler Rendering injury rate improved

Butler Rendering's TCR fell 2.0 from 9.1 in 2016 to 7.1 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 14.8 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.64× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=9.1 · 2017=13.7 · 2018=14.8 · 2019=7.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 11.2 · 338% of ind

  • DART 7.1 DART
  • RANK #4/4
  • PHOTO Darling Kuna
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 29 inj
  • SIZE ~57 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Darling Kuna (0.1 TCR gap)

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Butler Rendering in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Butler Rendering averages 11.2 TCR (338% of the Meat and bone meal and tankage, produced in rendering plant BLS benchmark).

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

Butler Rendering TCR series: 2016=9.1 · 2017=13.7 · 2018=14.8 · 2019=7.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Butler Rendering falls in its industry

151 Meat and bone meal and tankage establishments

Safer than 9% 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 #4 safest of 4 Meat and bone meal and tankage employers in Kentucky.

Butler Rendering (57 employees, TCR 11.2) 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 Butler Rendering
Butler Rendering (57 employees, TCR 11.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 46 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Butler Rendering has more employees than the Meat and bone meal and tankage, produced median and a higher 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
2019 7.1 7.1 5 0 0
2018 14.8 14.8 10 0 0
2017 13.7 10.6 8 1 0
2016 9.1 7.6 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311613 · KY · Butler

151 Meat and bone meal and tankage, produced in rendering plant 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 Kuna 11.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Darling Ingredients: St. Louis 11.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Darling Ingredients Inc., Bastrop 10.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Darling Ingredients Columbus Indiana 11.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Morganfield Office and Storeroom 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Taylor County Rural Electric Cooperative Corporation 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schnell Contractors, Inc. 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fox Enterprises Main Office 57 FTE
CITY-NEAR Butler Hauling Operations and Sanitary Landfill 166 FTE
CITY-NEAR River Valley Nursing Home 87 FTE
CITY-NEAR 39-2495346 53 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jay Gee Manufacturing Plant 1 45 FTE
NAT-TCR Saluda Convalescent Center 11.2 TCR
NAT-TCR UMFS Edinburg 11.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Hayward Industries, Inc. 11.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Caylym Home AVE 11.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE CardioFocus 500 Nickerson 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Coilplus Ohio 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE New Jersey American Water-Fire Road 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Piggly Wiggly #182 57 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.