Rendering plants · Texas

Darling Ingredients: Grapeland

Name: Darling Ingredients: Grapeland Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Grapeland, TX · ~65 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 5.6
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Darling Ingredients: Grapeland runs at 169% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Rendering plants workplace, earning a grade D.

Darling Ingredients: Grapeland: 5.6 TCR = 169% of Rendering plants BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Darling Ingredients: Grapeland safety composite

Darling Ingredients: Grapeland scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 45%), 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).

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 5.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers
DART rate: D 3.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% 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: Grapeland: 1.2 → 3.3 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 10.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.6× in 2024

Darling Ingredients: Grapeland's TCR rose 2.1 from 1.2 in 2020 to 3.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 10.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.6× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 5.6 · 169% of ind

DART 3.3 DART
RANK #9/13
PHOTO PLANT 180
BOOK 5y book
INJ 22 inj
SIZE ~65 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: PLANT 180 (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Darling Ingredients: Grapeland averages 5.6 TCR (169% of the Rendering plants BLS benchmark).

Darling Ingredients: Grapeland TCR series: 2020=1.2 · 2021=6 · 2022=6.9 · 2023=10.4 · 2024=3.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Darling Ingredients: Grapeland falls in its industry

151 Rendering plants establishments

Safer than 49% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 13 Rendering plants employers in Texas.

Darling Ingredients: Grapeland (65 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 46 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Darling Ingredients: Grapeland has more employees than the Rendering plants 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
2024	3.3	3.3	2	1
2023	10.4	9.3	9	0
2022	6.9	6.9	5	1
2021	6.0	6.0	5	0
2020	1.2	1.2	1	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311613 · TX · Grapeland

151 Rendering plants employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 4 employers in Grapeland, TX · 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	PLANT 180	MASON CITY, IL	5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Darling Ingredients: Union City	UNION CITY, TN	5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Darling Ingredients	SIOUX CITY, IA	5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	DARLING INGREDIENTS INC. - CROWS LANDING	CROWS LANDING, CA	5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE	HANSFORD COUNTY FEEDERS, LP	SPEARMAN	65 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Northside Farms, LLC	DALHART	65 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Wilco Peanut Co.	PLEASANTON	65 FTE
STATE-SIZE	2348-Aiken, TX	AIKEN	65 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Nucor Vulcraft Group Grapeland Division	Grapeland	349 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Store #112	Grapeland	28 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Vulcraft Carrier Corporation	Grapeland	25 FTE
NAT-TCR	Redlands Plumbing Heating & Air Conditioning, Inc.	Redlands, CA	5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	2102 - Central Islip	Central Islip, NY	5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	0864 - Delafield	Delafield, WI	5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Har-Conn Chrome Company	West Hartford, CT	5.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Pulcra Chemicals, LLC	Rock Hill, SC	65 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Anderson Pump Service Inc.	Mokena, IL	65 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Rr Pacific Construction	Woodland, CA	65 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Bestmark National LLC	Irvington, NJ	65 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. 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.