Animal fats rendering · Iowa
Darling Ingredients
Sioux City, IA · ~37 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- D
- Poor Safety Record
- 5.7
- Avg TCR
- 3.3
- Industry avg
- 0
- Fatalities
The verdict
Darling Ingredients runs at 172% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Animal fats rendering workplace, earning a grade D.
Darling Ingredients: 5.7 TCR = 172% of Animal fats rendering BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)
Darling Ingredients safety composite
Darling Ingredients scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 31%), 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).
43/100
Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures
- Total Case Rate (TCR)
- D 5.66 per 100 workers
Safer than 48% of industry peers
- DART rate
- F 4.8 per 100 workers
Safer than 31% 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
−5.1
2022→2024
Darling Ingredients injury rate improved
Darling Ingredients's TCR fell 5.1 from 9.9 in 2022 to 4.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 9.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.85× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).
2022=9.9 · 2023=2.3 · 2024=4.8
OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard
Establishment book 311613 · Sioux City, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL
Grade D · TCR 5.7 · 172% of ind
- DART 4.8 DART
- RANK #3/9
- PHOTO DARLING INGREDIENTS …
- BOOK 3y book
- INJ 7 inj
- SIZE ~37 FTE
Nearest TCR peer: DARLING INGREDIENTS INC. - CROWS LANDING (0.0 TCR gap)
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Darling Ingredients in the TCR neighbourhood
Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers
- Darling Ingred
Darling Ingredients
5.8 TCR
- This site
Darling Ingredients
5.7 TCR
- DARLING INGRED
DARLING INGREDIENTS INC. - CROWS LANDING
5.7 TCR
- Wadesboro
Wadesboro
5.7 TCR
- Darling Ingred
Darling Ingredients: Union City
5.6 TCR
What this shows Darling Ingredients averages 5.7 TCR (172% of the Animal fats rendering BLS benchmark).
Darling Ingredients TCR series: 2022=9.9 · 2023=2.3 · 2024=4.8 · BLS 3.3
Where Darling Ingredients falls in its industry
151 Animal fats rendering establishmentsSafer than 48% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.
Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 9 Animal fats rendering employers in Iowa.
Darling Ingredients has fewer employees than the Animal fats 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 | 4.8 | 4.8 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2.3 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 9.9 | 7.4 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
OSHA ITA peer cross-reference
Establishment peer ledger
311613 · IA · Sioux City
151 Animal fats rendering employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 259 employers in Sioux City, IA · 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. - CROWS LANDING | 5.7 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | Darling Ingredients: Union City | 5.6 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | Wadesboro | 5.7 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | Darling Ingredients | 5.8 TCR |
| STATE-SIZE | Rockwell City Warehouse | 37 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | Sioux County Egg | 37 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | OSI Gen Repair & Svc Wind Plt | 37 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | BHE - Lawrence (KS009) | 37 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | Seaboard Triumph Foods | 2,375 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | SeaboardTriumph Foods | 1,896 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | St. Luke's Regional Medical Center | 1,201 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp | 691 FTE |
| NAT-TCR | Intimidator Group | 5.7 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | Varn Wood Products, LLC | 5.7 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | Okwoo - Woodward | 5.7 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | Sussex Campus | 5.7 TCR |
| NAT-SIZE | Expeditors International | 37 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | Macawber Engineering, Inc. | 37 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | Hanson Sign & Screen Process Corp. | 37 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | Tarpstop Gary | 37 FTE |
Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.