Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing · Kentucky

Darling Ingredients, Inc.

Paducah, KY · ~37 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.3
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Darling Ingredients, Inc. runs at 366% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Darling Ingredients, Inc.: 14.3 TCR = 366% of Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Darling Ingredients, Inc. safety composite

Darling Ingredients, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 3%), 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% 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%).

TCR Δ

−12.2

2016→2021

Darling Ingredients, Inc. injury rate improved

Darling Ingredients, Inc.'s TCR fell 12.2 from 16.7 in 2016 to 4.6 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2017 at 30.6 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.21× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=16.7 · 2017=30.6 · 2020=5.2 · 2021=4.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311111 · Paducah, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 14.3 · 366% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK #6/6
  • PHOTO North Freeze Dry
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~37 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: North Freeze Dry (0.2 TCR gap)

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Darling Ingredients, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Darling Ingredients, Inc. averages 14.3 TCR (366% of the Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Darling Ingredients, Inc. TCR series: 2016=16.7 · 2017=30.6 · 2020=5.2 · 2021=4.6 · BLS 3.9

Where Darling Ingredients, Inc. falls in its industry

302 Pet food, dog and cat, manufac establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 6 Pet food, dog and cat, manufac employers in Kentucky.

Darling Ingredients, Inc. (37 employees, TCR 14.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 103 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 0200400600 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Darling Ingredients, Inc.
Darling Ingredients, Inc. (37 employees, TCR 14.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 103 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Darling Ingredients, Inc. has fewer employees than the Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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
2021 4.6 3.0 3 0 0
2020 5.2 5.2 3 0 0
2017 30.6 22.2 11 0 0
2016 16.7 16.7 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311111 · KY · Paducah

302 Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 198 employers in Paducah, 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 North Freeze Dry 14.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bernicks Twin Cities 14.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dayton Natural Meats 13.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dakota Dry Bean Devils Lake (Lakeview) 15.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Big Rivers Electric Corporation - ET&S 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE CW Assemblies LLC 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2850 RUSSELLVILLE BOWLING GREEN KY 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ontrac Inc Dba Blitz Builders Inc 37 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ingram barge Company 2,071 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baptist Health Paducah Hospital 1,605 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baptist Health Paducah 1,459 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baptist Heatlh Paducah 1,398 FTE
NAT-TCR Edco, Inc. 14.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Murrysville Store 14.3 TCR
NAT-TCR KOA - Ground Ops 14.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Waltek Inc. 14.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE P3 Advantage, Inc 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE MFG Energy Services 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE ADESA Austin 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bedford Adult Detention Center 37 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: 2021, 2020, 2017, 2016. 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.