Transfer (trucking) services, general freight, local · Iowa

Darling Ingredients - Alton

Alton, IA · ~19 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Darling Ingredients - Alton runs at 51% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Transfer (trucking) services, general freight, local workplace, earning a grade B.

Darling Ingredients - Alton: 2.3 TCR = 51% of Transfer (trucking) services, general freight, local BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Darling Ingredients - Alton safety composite

Darling Ingredients - Alton scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 35%), 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).

C

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.62 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%).

Rising injury rate

Darling Ingredients - Alton: 0.0 → 4.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.6 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2024

Darling Ingredients - Alton's TCR rose 4.6 from 0.0 in 2023 to 4.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484110 · Alton, IA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.3 · 51% of ind

  • DART 4.6 DART
  • RANK #5/34
  • PHOTO TRANSPORTATION
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: TRANSPORTATION (0.0 TCR gap)

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Darling Ingredients - Alton in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Darling Ingredients - Alton averages 2.3 TCR (51% of the Transfer (trucking) services, general freight, local BLS benchmark).

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

Darling Ingredients - Alton TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=4.6 · BLS 4.5

Where Darling Ingredients - Alton falls in its industry

2,784 Transfer (trucking) services, establishments

Safer than 80% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 34 Transfer (trucking) services, employers in Iowa.

Darling Ingredients - Alton (19 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Darling Ingredients - Alton
Darling Ingredients - Alton (19 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Darling Ingredients - Alton has fewer employees than the Transfer (trucking) services, general fr median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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 4.6 4.6 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484110 · IA · Alton

2,784 Transfer (trucking) services, general freight, local employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 3 employers in Alton, IA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR TRANSPORTATION 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Arizona Trucking & Materials 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR NFI Interactive Logistics LLC-300 Admiral Byrd Dr 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR United Delivery Inc - South Windsor, Ct 2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE United Farmers Cooperative (Creston #1) 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corteva Johnston Campus - JH15 Soybean Growth Chamber Building 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Midland Power Cooperative 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE main 19 FTE
CITY-NEAR Alton 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR Darling Ingredients Inc. Alton 21 FTE
NAT-TCR Guido Lumber Company Inc 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR General ThermoDynamics 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Txldo - Miles Laredo 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Cayuc - Yucca Valley 2.3 TCR

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. 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.