Rendering plants · Kansas

Darling Ingredients- Wichita

Name: Darling Ingredients- Wichita Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Wichita, KS · ~46 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 3.5
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Darling Ingredients- Wichita runs at 107% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Rendering plants workplace, earning a grade C.

Darling Ingredients- Wichita: 3.5 TCR = 107% of Rendering plants BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Darling Ingredients- Wichita safety composite

Darling Ingredients- Wichita scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 39%), 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).

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 3.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% of industry peers
DART rate: D 3.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% 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

−2.5

2016→2019

Darling Ingredients- Wichita injury rate improved

Darling Ingredients- Wichita's TCR fell 2.5 from 6.3 in 2016 to 3.9 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2016 at 6.3 TCR. In 2019, DART was 1.09× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.3 · 2017=0.4 · 2019=3.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 3.5 · 107% of ind

DART 3.9 DART
RANK P74
PHOTO 200Pocahontas
BOOK 3y book
INJ 7 inj
SIZE ~46 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 200Pocahontas (0.0 TCR gap)

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200Pocahontas

3.6
RVI-Sedalia

3.6
RVI-Texarkana

3.6
Michigan Brand

3.6
This site

3.5

What this shows Darling Ingredients- Wichita averages 3.5 TCR (107% of the Rendering plants BLS benchmark).

Darling Ingredients- Wichita TCR series: 2016=6.3 · 2017=0.4 · 2019=3.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Darling Ingredients- Wichita falls in its industry

151 Rendering plants establishments

Safer than 74% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Darling Ingredients- Wichita (46 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 46 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Darling Ingredients- Wichita has more employees than the Rendering plants median and a lower 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
2019	3.9	3.9	2
2017	0.4	0.4	2
2016	6.3	6.3	3

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311613 · KS · Wichita

151 Rendering plants 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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	200Pocahontas	POCAHONTAS, AR	3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	RVI-Sedalia	SEDALIA, MO	3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	RVI-Texarkana	TEXARKANA, AR	3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Michigan Brand, Inc.	BAY CITY, MI	3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE	WCNOC	BURLINGTON	46 FTE
STATE-SIZE	SVH HR Administration Building	TOPEKA	46 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Straub Construction Co Inc	SHAWNEE	46 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Snodgrass & Sons Construction Co, Inc.	WICHITA	46 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Spirit Aerosystems	Wichita	11,775 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Textron Aviation - Mid Continent	Wichita	4,359 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Wesley Medical Center	Wichita	2,657 FTE
CITY-NEAR	1855-KSWIC062	Wichita	2,438 FTE
NAT-TCR	APS Streetsboro Plant	Streetsboro, OH	3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	DPE Construction, Inc.	Yuma, AZ	3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Cedar Hill Plant	Cedar Hill, TX	3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	WNA-Bremen	Bremen, GA	3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Elkmont Vet Lab	Elkmont, AL	46 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Diamond Fiberglass	Victoria, TX	46 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Honeywell NY09	Green Island, NY	46 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Needham's Mushroom Farms, Inc.	West Grove, PA	46 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: 2019, 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.