Animal fats rendering · Texas

Darling Ingredients Inc., Bastrop

Bastrop, TX · ~95 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Darling Ingredients Inc., Bastrop runs at 324% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Animal fats rendering workplace, earning a grade F.

Darling Ingredients Inc., Bastrop: 10.7 TCR = 324% of Animal fats rendering BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Darling Ingredients Inc., Bastrop safety composite

Darling Ingredients Inc., Bastrop scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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 Inc., Bastrop: 7.3 → 13.3 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 14.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.08× in 2024

Darling Ingredients Inc., Bastrop's TCR rose 6.1 from 7.3 in 2016 to 13.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 14.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.08× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 10.7 · 324% of ind

  • DART 11.6 DART
  • RANK #12/13
  • PHOTO PACIFIC BIOPRODUCTS …
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 64 inj
  • SIZE ~95 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: PACIFIC BIOPRODUCTS WARRENTON (0.1 TCR gap)

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Darling Ingredients Inc., Bastrop in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Darling Ingredients Inc., Bastrop averages 10.7 TCR (324% 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 Inc., Bastrop TCR series: 2016=7.3 · 2017=9.9 · 2021=6.4 · 2022=14.6 · 2023=12.6 · 2024=13.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Darling Ingredients Inc., Bastrop falls in its industry

151 Animal fats rendering establishments

Safer than 11% 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 #12 safest of 13 Animal fats rendering employers in Texas.

Darling Ingredients Inc., Bastrop (95 employees, TCR 10.7) 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 Inc., Bastrop
Darling Ingredients Inc., Bastrop (95 employees, TCR 10.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 46 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Darling Ingredients Inc., Bastrop has more 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 13.3 11.6 13 2 0
2023 12.6 10.5 11 1 0
2022 14.6 12.2 10 2 0
2021 6.4 6.4 6 0 0
2017 9.9 9.2 14 0 0
2016 7.3 5.8 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311613 · TX · Bastrop

151 Animal fats rendering employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 44 employers in Bastrop, 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 PACIFIC BIOPRODUCTS WARRENTON 10.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Darling Kuna 11.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Butler Rendering 11.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Darling Ingredients, Inc. 10.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE CenterPoint Energy - North District Houston 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pacesetter Homes, LLC 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rockin R Construction 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hillsboro Concrete Buildings 95 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1855-TXAUS41 799 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bastrop, TX 660 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1042 332 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1042 308 FTE
NAT-TCR Keystone Quality Transport Company - NE Base 10.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Masonicare Health Center 10.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Superior Welding & Manufacturing 10.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Montgomery Truss 10.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE HopeWest - Ferris Care Center 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Villages at Forest Springs 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lowes Foods #206 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lowes Foods #259 95 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, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.