Animal fats rendering · North Carolina

Wadesboro

Wadesboro, NC · ~109 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Wadesboro runs at 173% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Animal fats rendering workplace, earning a grade D.

Wadesboro: 5.7 TCR = 173% of Animal fats rendering BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Wadesboro safety composite

Wadesboro scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 2%), 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).

D

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 2% 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

−3.7

2016→2024

Wadesboro injury rate improved

Wadesboro's TCR fell 3.7 from 6.9 in 2016 to 3.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 12.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.11× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.9 · 2017=2.1 · 2018=3.1 · 2019=12.1 · 2020=6.8 · 2021=6.3 · 2022=5.5 · 2023=5.6 · 2024=3.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311613 · Wadesboro, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.7 · 173% of ind

  • DART 0.6 DART
  • RANK #2/4
  • PHOTO DARLING INGREDIENTS …
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 58 inj
  • SIZE ~109 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: DARLING INGREDIENTS INC. - CROWS LANDING (0.0 TCR gap)

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Wadesboro in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Wadesboro averages 5.7 TCR (173% of the Animal fats rendering BLS benchmark).

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

Wadesboro TCR series: 2016=6.9 · 2017=2.1 · 2018=3.1 · 2019=12.1 · 2020=6.8 · 2021=6.3 · 2022=5.5 · 2023=5.6 · 2024=3.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Wadesboro falls in its industry

151 Animal fats rendering establishments

Safer than 46% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 4 Animal fats rendering employers in North Carolina.

Wadesboro (109 employees, TCR 5.7) 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 Wadesboro
Wadesboro (109 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 46 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Wadesboro has more 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 3.2 0.6 5 0 0
2023 5.6 2.1 8 0 0
2022 5.5 1.8 6 0 0
2021 6.3 1.1 6 0 0
2020 6.8 5.6 6 0 0
2019 12.1 8.6 14 0 0
2018 3.1 0.0 3 0 0
2017 2.1 2.1 2 0 0
2016 6.9 6.0 8 0 1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311613 · NC · Wadesboro

151 Animal fats rendering employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 26 employers in Wadesboro, NC · 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 DARLING INGREDIENTS INC. - CROWS LANDING 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Darling Ingredients 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Darling Ingredients 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Darling Ingredients: Union City 5.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Primoris T&D Services - Charlotte 109 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Graham 109 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mid Atlantic Infrastructure Systems Inc 109 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gaines and company Inc 109 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1127 194 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wade Manufacturing Company: Wadesboro Plant 183 FTE
CITY-NEAR Columbus McKinnon - Wadesboro 169 FTE
CITY-NEAR Columbus McKinnon Wadesboro Operations 159 FTE
NAT-TCR 601LAN 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Del Monte Foods, Inc. Yakima Plant 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Irish Electric Corp. 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Black Hills Electric Cooperative 5.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Spooner's Woodworks Inc. 109 FTE
NAT-SIZE Main Office 109 FTE
NAT-SIZE Traylor Health and Rehab 109 FTE
NAT-SIZE Franklin Ave 109 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, 2019, 2018, 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.