Dog and cat food (e.g., canned, dry, frozen, semimoist), manufacturing · Nebraska

Darling Ravenna 270

Ravenna, NE · ~31 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.9
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Darling Ravenna 270 runs at 176% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Dog and cat food (e.g., canned, dry, frozen, semimoist), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Darling Ravenna 270: 6.9 TCR = 176% of Dog and cat food (e.g., canned, dry, frozen, semimoist), manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Darling Ravenna 270 safety composite

Darling Ravenna 270 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Darling Ravenna 270: 3.0 → 6.1 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 11.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.88× in 2018

Darling Ravenna 270's TCR rose 3.1 from 3.0 in 2016 to 6.1 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 11.6 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.88× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311111 · Ravenna, NE ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.9 · 176% of ind

  • DART 6.1 DART
  • RANK #15/17
  • PHOTO RPC Freeze Dry
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~31 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: RPC Freeze Dry (0.0 TCR gap)

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Darling Ravenna 270 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Darling Ravenna 270 averages 6.9 TCR (176% of the Dog and cat food (e.g., canned, dry, frozen, semimoist), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Darling Ravenna 270 TCR series: 2016=3 · 2017=11.6 · 2018=6.1 · BLS 3.9

Where Darling Ravenna 270 falls in its industry

302 Dog and cat food (e.g., canned establishments

Safer than 17% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Nebraska alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 17 Dog and cat food (e.g., canned employers in Nebraska.

Darling Ravenna 270 (31 employees, TCR 6.9) 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Darling Ravenna 270
Darling Ravenna 270 (31 employees, TCR 6.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 103 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Darling Ravenna 270 has fewer employees than the Dog and cat food (e.g., canned, dry, fro 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
2018 6.1 6.1 1 2 0
2017 11.6 8.7 4 0 0
2016 3.0 3.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311111 · NE · Ravenna

302 Dog and cat food (e.g., canned, dry, frozen, semimoist), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 3,594 rated employers in Nebraska with headcount on file · 7 employers in Ravenna, NE · 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 RPC Freeze Dry 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kelly Foods Corporation 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR VIC 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Feed Mill 7.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE CSS Farms, LLC Minden, NE 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE CSS Farms - Minden 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Elkhorn River Farms 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Oshkosh Heifer Development 31 FTE
CITY-NEAR Darling Ingredients Inc. 56 FTE
CITY-NEAR KAAPA Ethanol Ravenna, LLC 50 FTE
CITY-NEAR Good Samaritan Society Ravenna 50 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ravenna 39 FTE
NAT-TCR Uge Day 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Office 40 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Bay Breeze Health and Rehab 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Viacord-Hebron 6.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Medical Center of South Arkansas 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wiese Decatur 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE 665 Dyer Ave 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Massco - Wichita 31 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.