Animal fats rendering · Texas

Darling Ingredients Amarillo

Amarillo, TX · ~54 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Darling Ingredients Amarillo runs at 124% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Animal fats rendering workplace, earning a grade D.

Darling Ingredients Amarillo: 4.1 TCR = 124% of Animal fats rendering BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Darling Ingredients Amarillo safety composite

Darling Ingredients Amarillo scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 67% 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).

D

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.17 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 Amarillo: 0.0 → 8.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 8.2 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2024

Darling Ingredients Amarillo's TCR rose 8.2 from 0.0 in 2023 to 8.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311613 · Amarillo, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.1 · 124% of ind

  • DART 8.2 DART
  • RANK #7/13
  • PHOTO Wahoo #740
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~54 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Wahoo #740 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Darling Ingredients Amarillo in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Darling Ingredients Amarillo averages 4.1 TCR (124% 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 Amarillo TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=8.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Darling Ingredients Amarillo falls in its industry

151 Animal fats rendering establishments

Safer than 67% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 13 Animal fats rendering employers in Texas.

Darling Ingredients Amarillo (54 employees, TCR 4.1) 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 Amarillo
Darling Ingredients Amarillo (54 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 46 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Darling Ingredients Amarillo has more employees than the Animal fats rendering 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 Illnesses Fatalities
2024 8.2 8.2 4 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311613 · TX · Amarillo

151 Animal fats rendering employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 351 employers in Amarillo, TX · 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 Wahoo #740 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR SIMMONS ANIMAL NUTRITION-MILAN 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR SIMMONS ANIMAL NUTRITION-DRY 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Darling Ingredients-Tacoma 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Randall County Feedyard 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1681 CORPORATE DR MCKINNEY TX 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3525 N HWY 77 WAXAHACHIE TX 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Clearwater Resources LLC 54 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amarillo Plant 3,771 FTE
CITY-NEAR BSA Hospital LLC 2,790 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2576-12071000-12071 1,839 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2576-30 1,492 FTE
NAT-TCR Cives Steel Company New England Division 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Mbs - Augusta 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Allied Waste Services of North America, LLC 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR PDM Constructors INC 4.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Benton House of Douglasville 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE USA Jamaica 305 Federal Cir 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE USA West Palm Beach 2005 Belvedere Rd 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE USA Tulsa 2136 N 73rd Ave 54 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. 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.