Oil, animal, rendering · Kentucky

Darling Ingredients-Russellville

Russellville, KY · ~66 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Darling Ingredients-Russellville runs at 303% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Oil, animal, rendering workplace, earning a grade F.

Darling Ingredients-Russellville: 10.0 TCR = 303% of Oil, animal, rendering BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Darling Ingredients-Russellville safety composite

Darling Ingredients-Russellville scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 10%), 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Darling Ingredients-Russellville: 8.5 → 11.5 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 11.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.89× in 2020

Darling Ingredients-Russellville's TCR rose 2.9 from 8.5 in 2017 to 11.5 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0.89× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311613 · Russellville, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.0 · 303% of ind

  • DART 8.9 DART
  • RANK #3/4
  • PHOTO County Services - Pl…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~66 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: County Services - Plainview (0.1 TCR gap)

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Darling Ingredients-Russellville in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Darling Ingredients-Russellville averages 10.0 TCR (303% of the Oil, animal, rendering BLS benchmark).

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

Darling Ingredients-Russellville TCR series: 2017=8.5 · 2020=11.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Darling Ingredients-Russellville falls in its industry

151 Oil, animal, rendering establishments

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 4 Oil, animal, rendering employers in Kentucky.

Darling Ingredients-Russellville (66 employees, TCR 10.0) 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-Russellville
Darling Ingredients-Russellville (66 employees, TCR 10.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 46 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Darling Ingredients-Russellville has more employees than the Oil, animal, rendering 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
2020 11.5 8.9 9 0 0
2017 8.5 7.3 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311613 · KY · Russellville

151 Oil, animal, rendering employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 36 employers in Russellville, 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 County Services - Plainview 9.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Darling Ingredients Inc. Collinsville, OK 9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Darling Ingredients, Inc. 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Darling Ingredients 9.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE T&C Contracting 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE SEKRI - Pineville 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dunaway Timber - Fordsville 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4315 Lexington Sheet Plant 66 FTE
CITY-NEAR Logan Aluminum, Inc. 1,472 FTE
CITY-NEAR LHS Logan Group Home - Edgewood 391 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 736 277 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ventra Plastics Russellville 267 FTE
NAT-TCR Community Based Family Supports, 438 East Main Road, Middletown, RI 02842 10.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Mason Home Care 10.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Hillcrest Home 10.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Marion Manor 10.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Autocast Inc 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE Country Manor 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE Atscott Mfg 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE Crestwood Center 66 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: 2020, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.