Oil, animal, rendering · Michigan

Darling Ingredients - Hamilton

Hamilton, MI · ~43 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Darling Ingredients - Hamilton runs at 367% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Oil, animal, rendering workplace, earning a grade F.

Darling Ingredients - Hamilton: 12.1 TCR = 367% of Oil, animal, rendering BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Darling Ingredients - Hamilton safety composite

Darling Ingredients - Hamilton scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 7%), 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% 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%).

Darling Ingredients - Hamilton held a steady TCR band

Darling Ingredients - Hamilton's TCR held near 0.1 from 10.5 in 2022 to 10.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 15.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.53× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=10.5 · 2023=15.2 · 2024=10.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311613 · Hamilton, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 12.1 · 367% of ind

  • DART 6.4 DART
  • RANK #7/7
  • PHOTO Protein Products, Inc.
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~43 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Protein Products, Inc. (0.2 TCR gap)

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Darling Ingredients - Hamilton in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Darling Ingredients - Hamilton averages 12.1 TCR (367% of the Oil, animal, rendering BLS benchmark).

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

Darling Ingredients - Hamilton TCR series: 2022=10.5 · 2023=15.2 · 2024=10.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Darling Ingredients - Hamilton falls in its industry

151 Oil, animal, rendering establishments

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 7 Oil, animal, rendering employers in Michigan.

Darling Ingredients - Hamilton (43 employees, TCR 12.1) 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 - Hamilton
Darling Ingredients - Hamilton (43 employees, TCR 12.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 46 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Darling Ingredients - Hamilton has fewer employees than the Oil, animal, 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
2024 10.6 6.4 5 0 0
2023 15.2 13.1 7 0 0
2022 10.5 6.3 4 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311613 · MI · Hamilton

151 Oil, animal, rendering employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 14 employers in Hamilton, MI · 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 Protein Products, Inc. 12.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Darling Ingredients 11.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Darling Ingredients Columbus Indiana 11.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Darling Ingredients: St. Louis 11.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Coldwater 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE SEMCO Energy Gas Company - Battle Creek 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE DUWA 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE THOMAS J MOYLE JR INC 43 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dykhuis Farms 162 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2794_5337 115 FTE
CITY-NEAR Great Lakes Superior Walls 98 FTE
CITY-NEAR Brink Farms Inc. 73 FTE
NAT-TCR #15 Stayton Roth'S 12.1 TCR
NAT-TCR ABCO Refrigeration Supply Corp - Middle Village 12.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Caraday of Corpus Christi 12.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Tacoma 12.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ridgemont 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Popeyes 12496 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Latty 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Grapevine 43 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. 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.