Animal fats rendering · Indiana

Darling Ingredients Inc Plymouth

Plymouth, IN · ~15 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Darling Ingredients Inc Plymouth runs at 118% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Animal fats rendering workplace, earning a grade C.

Darling Ingredients Inc Plymouth: 3.9 TCR = 118% of Animal fats rendering BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Darling Ingredients Inc Plymouth safety composite

Darling Ingredients Inc Plymouth scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 69% 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).

D

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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 Plymouth: 0.0 → 9.9 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 9.9 TCR · DART/TCR 2.52× in 2019

Darling Ingredients Inc Plymouth's TCR rose 9.9 from 0.0 in 2016 to 9.9 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 2.52× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311613 · Plymouth, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.9 · 118% of ind

  • DART 9.9 DART
  • RANK #4/7
  • PHOTO Holmes By Products C…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~15 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Holmes By Products Co, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Darling Ingredients Inc Plymouth in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Darling Ingredients Inc Plymouth averages 3.9 TCR (118% 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 Plymouth TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=5.8 · 2019=9.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Darling Ingredients Inc Plymouth falls in its industry

151 Animal fats rendering establishments

Safer than 69% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 7 Animal fats rendering employers in Indiana.

Darling Ingredients Inc Plymouth (15 employees, TCR 3.9) 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 Plymouth
Darling Ingredients Inc Plymouth (15 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 46 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Darling Ingredients Inc Plymouth has fewer employees than the Animal fats 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
2019 9.9 9.9 2 0 0
2018 5.8 5.8 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311613 · IN · Plymouth

151 Animal fats rendering employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 80 employers in Plymouth, IN · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Holmes By Products Co, Inc. 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wahoo #740 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR SIMMONS ANIMAL NUTRITION-MILAN 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Darling Ingredients Amarillo 4.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE National Energy of Lincoln 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE 506-NiSource-Plymouth IN-Electric Sub 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE 211-NiSource-Gary IN-Electric Substation 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE HTNE Hydrodemolition Services, LLC 15 FTE
CITY-NEAR Plymouth Community School Corporation 529 FTE
CITY-NEAR PCSC 492 FTE
CITY-NEAR HRT Plymouth 405 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1978 360 FTE
NAT-TCR Woodwinds Hospital 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 7850 Walker Dr Ste 200 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Vision Ease - Ramsey 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-Swy 0005 1548 3.9 TCR

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: 2019, 2018, 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.