Recyclable material hauling, local · Kansas

Darling Ingredients Garden City

Garden City, KS · ~21 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.7
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Darling Ingredients Garden City runs at 217% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Recyclable material hauling, local workplace, earning a grade F.

Darling Ingredients Garden City: 5.7 TCR = 217% of Recyclable material hauling, local BLS 2.6 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Darling Ingredients Garden City safety composite

Darling Ingredients Garden City scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 88% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 43%), 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

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% 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

−3.2

2017→2024

Darling Ingredients Garden City injury rate improved

Darling Ingredients Garden City's TCR fell 3.2 from 3.2 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 15.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=3.2 · 2018=0.0 · 2020=15.8 · 2021=11.8 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=8.8 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 5.7 · 217% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #17/21
  • PHOTO Republic Services of…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Republic Services of Cleveland (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 5.7 TCR (217% of the Recyclable material hauling, local 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: 2017=3.2 · 2018=0 · 2020=15.8 · 2021=11.8 · 2022=0 · 2023=8.8 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.6

Where Darling Ingredients Garden City falls in its industry

2,322 Recyclable material hauling, l establishments

Safer than 43% 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 #17 safest of 21 Recyclable material hauling, l employers in Kansas.

Darling Ingredients Garden City (21 employees, TCR 5.7) 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 (21 employees, TCR 5.7) 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 Recyclable material hauling, local 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 8.8 8.8 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 11.8 11.8 3 0 0
2020 15.8 15.8 4 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 3.2 3.2 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · KS · Garden City

2,322 Recyclable material hauling, local 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 Republic Services of Cleveland 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Advanced Disposal - Dearborn Hauling Company 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR S03903 - WM of Camden 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Eugene Recycling Collection Center 5.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE SEABOARD FOODS LP 101-107, 127 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Smoky Hills Genetics, LLC. 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bison Rush Genetics, LLC. 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gordon Evans Energy Center 21 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 Voss Plumbing & Heating of Paynesville Inc. 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Norton 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Usc Verdugo Hills Hospital Es 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Adelanto 5.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Naval Hospital 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hertless Brothers Roofing, Inc. 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Radke Machine & Tool 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE C&C Hydraulics Inc. 21 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, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.