Animal oil rendering · Maryland

Darling Ingredients Baltimore Plant

Name: Darling Ingredients Baltimore Plant Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Curtis Bay, MD · ~84 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 3.2
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Darling Ingredients Baltimore Plant runs at 97% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Animal oil rendering workplace, earning a grade C.

Darling Ingredients Baltimore Plant: 3.2 TCR = 97% of Animal oil rendering BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Darling Ingredients Baltimore Plant safety composite

Darling Ingredients Baltimore Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 33%), 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): B 3.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% of industry peers
DART rate: F 4.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% 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 Baltimore Plant: 2.0 → 4.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.37× in 2024

Darling Ingredients Baltimore Plant's TCR rose 2.3 from 2.0 in 2023 to 4.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.37× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311613 · Curtis Bay, MD AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.2 · 97% of ind

DART 4.4 DART
RANK P79
PHOTO Mopac
BOOK 2y book
INJ 6 inj
SIZE ~84 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mopac (0.0 TCR gap)

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3.2
Mopac

3.2
Pilgrims Pride

3.2
Kingsburg Comm

3.2
American Prote

3.2

What this shows Darling Ingredients Baltimore Plant averages 3.2 TCR (97% of the Animal oil rendering BLS benchmark).

Darling Ingredients Baltimore Plant TCR series: 2023=2 · 2024=4.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Darling Ingredients Baltimore Plant falls in its industry

151 Animal oil rendering establishments

Safer than 79% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Darling Ingredients Baltimore Plant (84 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 46 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Darling Ingredients Baltimore Plant has more employees than the Animal oil 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	4.4	4.4	4	0	0
2023	2.0	2.0	2	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311613 · MD · Curtis Bay

151 Animal oil rendering employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,213 rated employers in Maryland with headcount on file · 22 employers in Curtis Bay, MD · 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	Mopac	SOUDERTON, PA	3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Pilgrims Pride	ENNIS, TX	3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Kingsburg Commodities	KINGSBURG, CA	3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	American Proteins, Inc. - Cumming Division	CUMMING, GA	3.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE	R. D. Bean Inc.	BELTSVILLE	84 FTE
STATE-SIZE	East Coast Electric, Inc.	REISTERSTOWN	84 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Diebold Nixdorf Hunt Valley MD	HUNT VALLEY	84 FTE
STATE-SIZE	D39 Baltimore	BALTIMORE	84 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Fila USA, Inc. Brandon Woods Distribution Center	Curtis Bay	222 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Brandon Shores	Curtis Bay	168 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Manuel Luis Construction Company, Inc./M Luis Products, LLC	Curtis Bay	163 FTE
CITY-NEAR	BAL-ODFL	Curtis Bay	134 FTE
NAT-TCR	Johnson County Service Center	Lenexa, KS	3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Square Stamping Mfg	Barneveld, NY	3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Carolina Container Thomasville	Thomasville, NC	3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Pursuit Boats	Fort Pierce, FL	3.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Insteel Wire Products FLS	Sanderson, FL	84 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Zeigler North Riverside	North Riverside, IL	84 FTE
NAT-SIZE	205 Carlyle Avenue	Belleville, IL	84 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Carter Lumber 450	Winder, GA	84 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.