Rendering plants · Kansas

Darling Ingredients Inc. Kansas City

Kansas City, KS · ~39 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Darling Ingredients Inc. Kansas City runs at 200% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Rendering plants workplace, earning a grade D.

Darling Ingredients Inc. Kansas City: 6.6 TCR = 200% of Rendering plants BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Darling Ingredients Inc. Kansas City safety composite

Darling Ingredients Inc. Kansas City scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 17%), 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

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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

−3.6

2016→2024

Darling Ingredients Inc. Kansas City injury rate improved

Darling Ingredients Inc. Kansas City's TCR fell 3.6 from 10.7 in 2016 to 7.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 10.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.07× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=10.7 · 2017=10.5 · 2018=10.0 · 2019=2.0 · 2020=6.0 · 2021=4.4 · 2022=4.4 · 2023=4.3 · 2024=7.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311613 · Kansas City, KS ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.6 · 200% of ind

  • DART 7.1 DART
  • RANK P36
  • PHOTO Darling Ingredients-…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 28 inj
  • SIZE ~39 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Darling Ingredients-TURLOCK (0.0 TCR gap)

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Darling Ingredients Inc. Kansas City in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Darling Ingredients Inc. Kansas City averages 6.6 TCR (200% of the Rendering plants BLS benchmark).

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

Darling Ingredients Inc. Kansas City TCR series: 2016=10.7 · 2017=10.5 · 2018=10 · 2019=2 · 2020=6 · 2021=4.4 · 2022=4.4 · 2023=4.3 · 2024=7.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Darling Ingredients Inc. Kansas City falls in its industry

151 Rendering plants establishments

Safer than 36% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Darling Ingredients Inc. Kansas City (39 employees, TCR 6.6) 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 Darling Ingredients Inc. Kansas City
Darling Ingredients Inc. Kansas City (39 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 46 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Darling Ingredients Inc. Kansas City has fewer employees than the Rendering plants 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
2024 7.1 7.1 3 0 0
2023 4.3 4.3 2 0 0
2022 4.4 0.0 2 0 0
2021 4.4 4.4 2 0 0
2020 6.0 6.0 3 0 0
2019 2.0 2.0 1 0 0
2018 10.0 8.0 5 0 0
2017 10.5 10.5 5 0 0
2016 10.7 8.6 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311613 · KS · Kansas City

151 Rendering plants employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 367 employers in Kansas 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 Darling Ingredients-TURLOCK 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR DarPro Tampa 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR SFI WET 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Darling Ingredients Union City TN 6.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE 1550 W Road 70 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Beefland Feed Yard 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lawrence Service Center 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE BHE - Lawrence (KS009) 39 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - MKC6 3,116 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : MKC6 2,912 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fairfax Assembly and Stamping 2,772 FTE
CITY-NEAR PROVIDENCE MEDICAL CENTER 1,091 FTE
NAT-TCR Freightliner Northwest, Pacific WA 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 3240 Keystone 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Yavapai Mechanical 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR West Michigan Glass Block Inc. 6.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Wurm's Woodworking Co. 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Monical's Pizza Parkway 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ong Wr Okc Sssc 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE ONA Polymers 39 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, 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.