Fats, animal, rendering · Florida

Darling Ingredients Inc. dba/DAR PRO Solutions

Miami, FL · ~35 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Darling Ingredients Inc. dba/DAR PRO Solutions runs at 57% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Fats, animal, rendering workplace, earning a grade B.

Darling Ingredients Inc. dba/DAR PRO Solutions: 1.9 TCR = 57% of Fats, animal, rendering BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Darling Ingredients Inc. dba/DAR PRO Solutions safety composite

Darling Ingredients Inc. dba/DAR PRO Solutions scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 91% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 29%), 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

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% 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. dba/DAR PRO Solutions: 2.8 → 5.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.0 TCR · DART/TCR 2.7× in 2024

Darling Ingredients Inc. dba/DAR PRO Solutions's TCR rose 2.2 from 2.8 in 2017 to 5.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2.7× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311613 · Miami, FL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.9 · 57% of ind

  • DART 5.0 DART
  • RANK #1/6
  • PHOTO Hormel Foods Corpora…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~35 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hormel Foods Corporation (0.0 TCR gap)

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Darling Ingredients Inc. dba/DAR PRO Solutions in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Darling Ingredients Inc. dba/DAR PRO Solutions averages 1.9 TCR (57% of the Fats, animal, rendering BLS benchmark).

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

Darling Ingredients Inc. dba/DAR PRO Solutions TCR series: 2017=2.8 · 2018=2.4 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=2.4 · 2023=2.4 · 2024=5 · BLS 3.3

Where Darling Ingredients Inc. dba/DAR PRO Solutions falls in its industry

151 Fats, animal, rendering establishments

Safer than 91% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Florida alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 6 Fats, animal, rendering employers in Florida.

Darling Ingredients Inc. dba/DAR PRO Solutions (35 employees, TCR 1.9) 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. dba/DAR PRO Solutions
Darling Ingredients Inc. dba/DAR PRO Solutions (35 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 46 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Darling Ingredients Inc. dba/DAR PRO Solutions has fewer employees than the Fats, animal, 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 5.0 5.0 2 0 0
2023 2.4 0.0 1 0 0
2022 2.4 2.4 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 2.4 2.4 1 0 0
2017 2.8 2.8 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311613 · FL · Miami

151 Fats, animal, rendering employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 26,569 rated employers in Florida with headcount on file · 1,467 employers in Miami, FL · 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 Hormel Foods Corporation 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pet Solutions 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fieldale Farms - Cornelia Rendering Plant 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Darling Ingredients (Newberry) 1.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Ladybug Farms Inc 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Flying W Cattle Company 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ridge 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Merritt Island Service Center 35 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4795-AA-MIA-MIAMI-MIA-TRML 9,259 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baptist Hospital of Miami Inc. 6,876 FTE
CITY-NEAR MIACX0UPS MIA UPS 3,101 FTE
CITY-NEAR Office of Field Operations - Miami 2,879 FTE
NAT-TCR Spacecon Specialty Contractors, LLC 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Pelham Plastics Inc. 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Gerber Poultry Inc 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Associated Scaffolding Company Incorporated 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Maas Brothers Construction Co., Inc. 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Grady & Sons Excavation, LLC 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rossi Building - Front - Construction Inspectors 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Veterans Store #606 35 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, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.