Animal fats rendering · Texas

Darling Ingredients/ Houston

Houston, TX · ~42 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Darling Ingredients/ Houston runs at 73% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Animal fats rendering workplace, earning a grade B.

Darling Ingredients/ Houston: 2.4 TCR = 73% of Animal fats rendering BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Darling Ingredients/ Houston safety composite

Darling Ingredients/ Houston scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 40%), 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).

C

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% 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/ Houston: 0.0 → 3.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 3.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.6× in 2024

Darling Ingredients/ Houston's TCR rose 3.9 from 0.0 in 2017 to 3.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.6× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311613 · Houston, TX AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 73% of ind

  • DART 3.9 DART
  • RANK #3/13
  • PHOTO Darling Ingredients …
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~42 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Darling Ingredients Inc (0.1 TCR gap)

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Darling Ingredients/ Houston in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Darling Ingredients/ Houston averages 2.4 TCR (73% 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/ Houston TCR series: 2017=0 · 2019=3.8 · 2023=2 · 2024=3.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Darling Ingredients/ Houston falls in its industry

151 Animal fats rendering establishments

Safer than 87% 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 #3 safest of 13 Animal fats rendering employers in Texas.

Darling Ingredients/ Houston (42 employees, TCR 2.4) 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/ Houston
Darling Ingredients/ Houston (42 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 46 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Darling Ingredients/ Houston has fewer 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 3.9 3.9 2 0 0
2023 2.0 2.0 1 0 0
2019 3.8 3.8 2 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311613 · TX · Houston

151 Animal fats rendering employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 5,116 employers in Houston, 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 Darling Ingredients Inc 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Darling Ingredients Inc. Hampton Extraction 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Keystone Rendering 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Modena 2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Headquarters Southeast 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Littlefield Feedyard 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE TEXAS BEEF PRODUCERS 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3-H Dairy LLC 42 FTE
CITY-NEAR IAH IAH 11,560 FTE
CITY-NEAR IAH - Airport United Airlines Offices 10,239 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6925-IAH 9,442 FTE
CITY-NEAR Houston Methodist Hospital Texas Medical Center 8,873 FTE
NAT-TCR Specialty Larry Kline - 3220 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Asbell Companies 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Haselden Construction 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Longfellow Elementary School 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bove Industries, Inc. 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Statewide Stripes, Inc. 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mid Valley Disposal, LLC - Visalia 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE HTC Florence 42 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, 2019, 2017. 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.