Rendering plants · Texas

Darling Ingredients Dallas

Dallas, TX · ~77 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Darling Ingredients Dallas runs at 161% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Rendering plants workplace, earning a grade D.

Darling Ingredients Dallas: 5.3 TCR = 161% of Rendering plants BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Darling Ingredients Dallas safety composite

Darling Ingredients Dallas scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 37%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.6

2023→2024

Darling Ingredients Dallas injury rate improved

Darling Ingredients Dallas's TCR fell 2.6 from 6.6 in 2023 to 4.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 6.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.76× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=6.6 · 2024=4.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 5.3 · 161% of ind

  • DART 4.0 DART
  • RANK #8/13
  • PHOTO Atlanta 070
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~77 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Atlanta 070 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Darling Ingredients Dallas in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Darling Ingredients Dallas averages 5.3 TCR (161% of the Rendering plants BLS benchmark).

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

Darling Ingredients Dallas TCR series: 2023=6.6 · 2024=4 · BLS 3.3

Where Darling Ingredients Dallas falls in its industry

151 Rendering plants establishments

Safer than 50% 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 #8 safest of 13 Rendering plants employers in Texas.

Darling Ingredients Dallas (77 employees, TCR 5.3) 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 Darling Ingredients Dallas
Darling Ingredients Dallas (77 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 46 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Darling Ingredients Dallas has more employees than the Rendering plants 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 4.0 4.0 4 0 0
2023 6.6 5.7 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311613 · TX · Dallas

151 Rendering plants employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 2,187 employers in Dallas, 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 Atlanta 070 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Resource Recovery Plant 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR RVI-Cuthbert 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR PLANT 180 5.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE FLOYDADA COOP GIN 2 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE Holman Well Service 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE Woodlands Service Center 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE D.R. Horton, Inc. - Huntsville 77 FTE
CITY-NEAR AECOM DCS (US Operations) 15,100 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rexel USA, Inc 8,356 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1 CHILDRENS MEDICAL CENTER OF DALLAS 6,147 FTE
CITY-NEAR HDQ - Headquarters 5,764 FTE
NAT-TCR Kingsley Manor 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Cthar - Hartford 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Njtin - Tinton Falls 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Wvclk - Clarksburg 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE RHCC Auburn 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE Iowa City Service Center 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE Laird 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE STR0503 77 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.