Waste transfer stations, nonhazardous solid · Kansas

Darling Ingredients- Garden City

Garden City, KS · ~24 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.0
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Darling Ingredients- Garden City runs at 309% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Waste transfer stations, nonhazardous solid workplace, earning a grade F.

Darling Ingredients- Garden City: 8.0 TCR = 309% of Waste transfer stations, nonhazardous solid BLS 2.6 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Darling Ingredients- Garden City safety composite

Darling Ingredients- Garden City scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 24%), 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

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% 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

−5.5

2016→2019

Darling Ingredients- Garden City injury rate improved

Darling Ingredients- Garden City's TCR fell 5.5 from 13.2 in 2016 to 7.7 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2016 at 13.2 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.48× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=13.2 · 2017=3.2 · 2019=7.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562111 · Garden City, KS ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.0 · 309% of ind

  • DART 3.9 DART
  • RANK #20/21
  • PHOTO Stericycle - Mckeesp…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Stericycle - Mckeesport,PA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Darling Ingredients- Garden City in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Darling Ingredients- Garden City averages 8.0 TCR (309% of the Waste transfer stations, nonhazardous solid BLS benchmark).

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

Darling Ingredients- Garden City TCR series: 2016=13.2 · 2017=3.2 · 2019=7.7 · BLS 2.6

Where Darling Ingredients- Garden City falls in its industry

2,322 Waste transfer stations, nonha establishments

Safer than 24% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #20 safest of 21 Waste transfer stations, nonha employers in Kansas.

Darling Ingredients- Garden City (24 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Darling Ingredients- Garden City
Darling Ingredients- Garden City (24 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Darling Ingredients- Garden City has fewer employees than the Waste transfer stations, nonhazardous so median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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 7.7 3.9 2 0 0
2017 3.2 3.2 1 0 0
2016 13.2 9.9 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · KS · Garden City

2,322 Waste transfer stations, nonhazardous solid employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 84 employers in Garden City, KS · 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 Stericycle - Mckeesport,PA 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR S10166 - Polk County Hauling 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pine Tree Waste - Mechanic Falls 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stericycle - Fontana,CA 8.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Satanta Farms North #1 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Knight Feedlot Inc. 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Crop Service Center Inc 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ag Connection Sales, Inc 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Catherine Hospital 722 FTE
CITY-NEAR 652 344 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 652 304 FTE
CITY-NEAR 615-00005 148 FTE
NAT-TCR 2073-SW-20730232-CS 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Freightliner of Augusta, LLC 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR St. Andrews Assisted Living of Bridgeton 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR The Jewish Home Center for Palliative Care (Skirball Hospice) 8.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE ITT ProCast Zachary, USA - IP 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dutchess County Healthy Families 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Farm Boy Trucking 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE RR620 24 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, 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.