Rendering plants · Ohio

darling ingredients inc.

Name: darling ingredients inc. Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Winesburg, OH · ~30 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 0.7
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

darling ingredients inc. runs at 21% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Rendering plants workplace, earning a grade A.

darling ingredients inc.: 0.7 TCR = 21% of Rendering plants BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

darling ingredients inc. safety composite

darling ingredients inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 97% 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).

84/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): A 0.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 97% of industry peers
DART rate: A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% 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%).

darling ingredients inc. held a steady TCR band

darling ingredients inc.'s TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2021 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 2.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=2.8 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311613 · Winesburg, OH AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.7 · 21% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK P97
PHOTO Mahoney Environmenta…
BOOK 4y book
INJ 1 inj
SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mahoney Environmental Indy (0.0 TCR gap)

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1.1
Kaluzny Bros.,

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0.7
Mahoney Enviro

0.7
Mendota Agri P

0.5

What this shows darling ingredients inc. averages 0.7 TCR (21% of the Rendering plants BLS benchmark).

darling ingredients inc. TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=2.8 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where darling ingredients inc. falls in its industry

151 Rendering plants establishments

Safer than 97% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

darling ingredients inc. (30 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 46 employees and a TCR of 5.6

darling ingredients inc. has fewer 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	Injuries
2024	0.0	0
2023	2.8	1
2022	0.0	0
2021	0.0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311613 · OH · Winesburg

151 Rendering plants employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 9 employers in Winesburg, OH · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Mahoney Environmental Indy	INDIANAPOLIS, IN	0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Mendota Agri Products	MENDOTA, IL	0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Kaluzny Bros.,Inc.	JOLIET, IL	1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Mahoney Environmental Joliet	JOLIET, IL	1.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Tuente Farms Inc	YORKSHIRE	30 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Farm 3	WEST MANSFIELD	30 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Trillium Farms Layer 6	HARPSTER	30 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Canton Hatchery	CANTON	30 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Case Farms Processing	Winesburg	626 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Case Farms winesburg processing	Winesburg	448 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Winesburg Plant	Winesburg	387 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Winesburg	Winesburg	84 FTE
NAT-TCR	E-Corp	Layton, UT	0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Belvac- Main	Lynchburg, VA	0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Loyola University New Orleans	New Orleans, LA	0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Sheraton Memphis Downtown Hotel	Memphis, TN	0.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Tubular steel	New Hazen, MO	30 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Washington Floral Service	Spokane, WA	30 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Custom Processing Services, LLC	East Greenville, PA	30 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Chacon Steel Erectors, Inc.	Oneonta, AL	30 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.