Animal fats rendering · Wisconsin

Berlin WI Darling Ingredients

Berlin, WI · ~33 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Berlin WI Darling Ingredients runs at 222% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Animal fats rendering workplace, earning a grade F.

Berlin WI Darling Ingredients: 7.3 TCR = 222% of Animal fats rendering BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Berlin WI Darling Ingredients safety composite

Berlin WI Darling Ingredients scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 6%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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

Berlin WI Darling Ingredients: 8.4 → 10.6 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 13.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.44× in 2023

Berlin WI Darling Ingredients's TCR rose 2.2 from 8.4 in 2016 to 10.6 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 13.1 TCR. In 2023, DART was 1.44× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311613 · Berlin, WI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.3 · 222% of ind

  • DART 10.6 DART
  • RANK P26
  • PHOTO Mountain View Render…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mountain View Rendering Co., LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Berlin WI Darling Ingredients in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Berlin WI Darling Ingredients averages 7.3 TCR (222% of the Animal fats rendering BLS benchmark).

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

Berlin WI Darling Ingredients TCR series: 2016=8.4 · 2017=7.9 · 2018=10.3 · 2019=5.8 · 2020=2.6 · 2021=0 · 2022=13.1 · 2023=10.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Berlin WI Darling Ingredients falls in its industry

151 Animal fats rendering establishments

Safer than 26% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Berlin WI Darling Ingredients (33 employees, TCR 7.3) 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 Berlin WI Darling Ingredients
Berlin WI Darling Ingredients (33 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 46 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Berlin WI Darling Ingredients 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
2023 10.6 10.6 4 0 0
2022 13.1 13.1 4 1 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 2.6 2.6 1 0 0
2019 5.8 5.8 2 0 0
2018 10.3 10.3 4 0 0
2017 7.9 7.9 3 0 0
2016 8.4 8.4 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311613 · WI · Berlin

151 Animal fats rendering employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 20 employers in Berlin, WI · 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 Mountain View Rendering Co., LLC 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR RVI-Clarksville 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Terra Renewal Inc 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Darling Ingredients Inc. 7.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE HM Clause - Sun Prairie 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fort Atkinson 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gorman General Contractors 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE J&J Contractors I LLC 33 FTE
CITY-NEAR ThedaCare Medical Center Berlin 363 FTE
CITY-NEAR Generac Mobile Products 347 FTE
CITY-NEAR ThedaCare Medical Center-Berlin 299 FTE
CITY-NEAR Generac Mobile 251 FTE
NAT-TCR Tidelands Ford 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Windsor Elmhaven Care Center 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 1002 - St. Charles 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Bloomington - East 3305 7.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Crestwood 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Caliber Associates Inc. 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE CLARK - Louisville 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gold Star FS, Inc. Lyndon 33 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: 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.