Rendering plants · Michigan

Darling Ingredients Inc

Coldwater, MI · ~74 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Darling Ingredients Inc runs at 91% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Rendering plants workplace, earning a grade C.

Darling Ingredients Inc: 3.0 TCR = 91% of Rendering plants BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Darling Ingredients Inc safety composite

Darling Ingredients Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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

72/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 3 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers

DART rate
B 1.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% 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

−1.8

2022→2023

Darling Ingredients Inc injury rate improved

Darling Ingredients Inc's TCR fell 1.8 from 3.9 in 2022 to 2.1 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 3.9 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.35× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=3.9 · 2023=2.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311613 · Coldwater, MI AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.0 · 91% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #1/7
  • PHOTO Bellevue-150
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~74 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bellevue-150 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Darling Ingredients Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Darling Ingredients Inc averages 3.0 TCR (91% of the Rendering plants BLS benchmark).

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

Darling Ingredients Inc TCR series: 2022=3.9 · 2023=2.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Darling Ingredients Inc falls in its industry

151 Rendering plants establishments

Safer than 80% 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 #1 safest of 7 Rendering plants employers in Michigan.

Darling Ingredients Inc (74 employees, TCR 3.0) 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
Darling Ingredients Inc (74 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 46 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Darling Ingredients Inc has more employees than the Rendering plants 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
2023 2.1 1.1 2 0 0
2022 3.9 2.6 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311613 · MI · Coldwater

151 Rendering plants employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 64 employers in Coldwater, 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 Bellevue-150 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR DarPro Solutions-Blue Island 090 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Darling Ingredients / Veribest 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mopac 3.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Adrian SC 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Grand Rapids-Environmental Protection Services Division 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Detroit Office 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Public Works-Streets and Sanitation 74 FTE
CITY-NEAR Coldwater Facility 926 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6043 912 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 6043 795 FTE
CITY-NEAR ProMedica Coldwater Regional Hospital 537 FTE
NAT-TCR Briarcliff 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Covercraft Industries - Pauls Valley 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR NS Radiology at Glen Cove 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Huntley Brothers Co. Inc. 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Healthy Pet Jesup 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE Revman International Distribution Center 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE BSN Sports LLC Benchmark 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE Harris Rebar Columbia Basin - Washington 74 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: 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.