Animal fats rendering · Kansas

Darling Ingredients Wichita

Wichita, KS · ~45 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Darling Ingredients Wichita runs at 267% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Animal fats rendering workplace, earning a grade F.

Darling Ingredients Wichita: 8.8 TCR = 267% of Animal fats rendering BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Darling Ingredients Wichita safety composite

Darling Ingredients Wichita scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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 Wichita: 4.2 → 8.2 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 22.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.93× in 2024

Darling Ingredients Wichita's TCR rose 4.0 from 4.2 in 2017 to 8.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 22.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.93× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311613 · Wichita, KS ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.8 · 267% of ind

  • DART 8.2 DART
  • RANK P20
  • PHOTO Baker Commodities
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 29 inj
  • SIZE ~45 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Baker Commodities (0.1 TCR gap)

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Darling Ingredients Wichita in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Darling Ingredients Wichita averages 8.8 TCR (267% of the Animal fats rendering BLS benchmark).

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

Darling Ingredients Wichita TCR series: 2017=4.2 · 2018=0 · 2020=1.9 · 2021=3.9 · 2022=20.5 · 2023=22.9 · 2024=8.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Darling Ingredients Wichita falls in its industry

151 Animal fats rendering establishments

Safer than 20% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Darling Ingredients Wichita (45 employees, TCR 8.8) 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 Wichita
Darling Ingredients Wichita (45 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 46 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Darling Ingredients Wichita has fewer employees than the Animal fats 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
2024 8.2 8.2 4 0 0
2023 22.9 18.7 10 1 0
2022 20.5 20.5 10 0 0
2021 3.9 3.9 2 0 0
2020 1.9 1.9 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 4.2 4.2 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311613 · KS · Wichita

151 Animal fats rendering employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 841 employers in Wichita, 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 Baker Commodities 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Central Bi Products North Redwood Falls 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jackson 100 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Central Bi-Products - Redwood Falls 8.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Shawnee Service Center 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wardcraft Homes Inc., 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Roofmasters Roofing & Sheet Metal- Hays 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Diamond Roofing Dodge City 45 FTE
CITY-NEAR Spirit Aerosystems 11,775 FTE
CITY-NEAR Textron Aviation - Mid Continent 4,359 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wesley Medical Center 2,657 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1855-KSWIC062 2,438 FTE
NAT-TCR el super #32 sierra 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Janesville 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR E A Sween Company-Austin 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Storm Lake Turkey Plant 8.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sign Operations 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Branson Head Start 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE St. Louis Soper St 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stantek 45 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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