Chicken feeds, prepared, manufacturing · Iowa

Darling Ingredients : Muscatine

Name: Darling Ingredients : Muscatine Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Muscatine, IA · ~24 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 5.1
Avg TCR: 3.9
Industry avg: 1
Fatality

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The verdict

Darling Ingredients : Muscatine runs at 132% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Chicken feeds, prepared, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Darling Ingredients : Muscatine: 5.1 TCR = 132% of Chicken feeds, prepared, manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Darling Ingredients : Muscatine safety composite

Darling Ingredients : Muscatine scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 30% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 1%), 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).

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 5.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers
DART rate: F 3.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers
Fatalities: F 1

Safer than 1% 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

−6.2

2019→2022

Darling Ingredients : Muscatine injury rate improved

Darling Ingredients : Muscatine's TCR fell 6.2 from 10.0 in 2019 to 3.9 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2019 at 10.0 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.75× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=10.0 · 2020=3.2 · 2021=3.5 · 2022=3.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311119 · Muscatine, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.1 · 132% of ind

DART 3.9 DART
RANK #34/62
PHOTO Waldron Feed Mill
BOOK 4y book
INJ 5 inj
SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Waldron Feed Mill (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Darling Ingredients : Muscatine averages 5.1 TCR (132% of the Chicken feeds, prepared, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Darling Ingredients : Muscatine TCR series: 2019=10 · 2020=3.2 · 2021=3.5 · 2022=3.9 · BLS 3.9

Where Darling Ingredients : Muscatine falls in its industry

756 Chicken feeds, prepared, manuf establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #34 safest of 62 Chicken feeds, prepared, manuf employers in Iowa.

Darling Ingredients : Muscatine (24 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Darling Ingredients : Muscatine has fewer employees than the Chicken feeds, prepared, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2022	3.9	3.9	1	0	0
2021	3.5	3.5	1	0	0
2020	3.2	3.2	1	0	0
2019	10.0	6.7	2	1	1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311119 · IA · Muscatine

756 Chicken feeds, prepared, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 79 employers in Muscatine, IA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Waldron Feed Mill	WALDRON, AR	5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Mar-Jac Poultry MS LLC - Farms	WAYNESBORO, MS	5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Park City Feed Mill	PARK CITY, KY	5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Kent Nutrition Group- Hagerstown	HAGERSTOWN, MD	5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Afton Warehouse	AFTON	24 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Northwood Sow Unit	LAWLER	24 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Belmond	BELMOND	24 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Clarion, IA	CLARION	24 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Highway 61	Muscatine	982 FTE
CITY-NEAR	HON Company Administration	Muscatine	522 FTE
CITY-NEAR	SSAB Iowa Inc.	Muscatine	469 FTE
CITY-NEAR	SSAB Iowa (SSAB North America)	Muscatine	466 FTE
NAT-TCR	Central Health Care of LeCenter	Lecenter, MN	5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	Ac Iron	Lansing, IL	5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	DC	Alexandria, VA	5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	Baughman Tile Co., Inc.	Paulding, OH	5.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Mansfield store	Mansfield, PA	24 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Payson Office	Payson, AZ	24 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Wiregrass Region	Dothan, AL	24 FTE
NAT-SIZE	TAC Air - DAL	Dallas, TX	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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.