Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing · Pennsylvania

Darling Ingredients, Inc.

Name: Darling Ingredients, Inc. Workplace Safety Data
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Mifflintown, PA · ~59 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 5.3
Avg TCR: 3.9
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Darling Ingredients, Inc. runs at 135% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Darling Ingredients, Inc.: 5.3 TCR = 135% of Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Darling Ingredients, Inc. safety composite

Darling Ingredients, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 6%), 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).

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 5.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers
DART rate: F 8.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers
Fatalities: D 0

Safer than 51% 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.: 1.9 → 8.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 8.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.63× in 2024

Darling Ingredients, Inc.'s TCR rose 6.7 from 1.9 in 2023 to 8.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.63× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311111 · Mifflintown, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.3 · 135% of ind

DART 8.6 DART
RANK #15/23
PHOTO Midwest Co-Pack
BOOK 2y book
INJ 6 inj
SIZE ~59 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Midwest Co-Pack (0.0 TCR gap)

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5.3
Midwest Co-Pac

5.3
Alphia-Bern

5.3
Biscuit Plant

5.3
Diamond Pet Fo

5.2

What this shows Darling Ingredients, Inc. averages 5.3 TCR (135% of the Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Darling Ingredients, Inc. TCR series: 2023=1.9 · 2024=8.6 · BLS 3.9

Where Darling Ingredients, Inc. falls in its industry

302 Animal feed mills, dog and cat establishments

Safer than 29% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 23 Animal feed mills, dog and cat employers in Pennsylvania.

Darling Ingredients, Inc. (59 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 103 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Darling Ingredients, Inc. has fewer employees than the Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufact median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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	8.6	8.6	5	0	0
2023	1.9	1.9	1	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311111 · PA · Mifflintown

302 Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 16 employers in Mifflintown, PA · 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	Midwest Co-Pack	CHICAGO, IL	5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Alphia-Bern	BERN, KS	5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Biscuit Plant	VISALIA, CA	5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Diamond Pet Foods Lathrop	TRACY, CA	5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Dan Schantz Greenhouse (Pipersville, PA)	PIPERSVILLE	59 FTE
STATE-SIZE	North Creek Nurseries, Inc.	LANDENBERG	59 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Eddystone Generating Station	EDDYSTONE	59 FTE
STATE-SIZE	S&A Homes, Inc.	STATE COLLEGE	59 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Empire Kosher Poultry Inc	Mifflintown	619 FTE
CITY-NEAR	176	Mifflintown	154 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Tedd Wood	Mifflintown	134 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Brookline Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center	Mifflintown	103 FTE
NAT-TCR	Dimensions Living Appleton LLC	Appleton, WI	5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Futaba Indiana of America	Vincennes, IN	5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Aspire Bakeries - Newark	Newark, CA	5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Flippo Lumber Corporation	Doswell, VA	5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Latta Road Nursing Home West	Rochester, NY	59 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Everett Marine Terminal	Everett, MA	59 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Carter Component Plant 537	Mason, OH	59 FTE
NAT-SIZE	FGS Giddings East	Giddings, TX	59 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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