Meat and bone meal and tankage, produced in rendering plant · Iowa

Darling Ingredients Inc. Sioux City

Sioux City, IA · ~38 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Darling Ingredients Inc. Sioux City runs at 183% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Meat and bone meal and tankage, produced in rendering plant workplace, earning a grade D.

Darling Ingredients Inc. Sioux City: 6.0 TCR = 183% of Meat and bone meal and tankage, produced in rendering plant BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Darling Ingredients Inc. Sioux City safety composite

Darling Ingredients Inc. Sioux City scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 92% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 42%), 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

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.7

2016→2021

Darling Ingredients Inc. Sioux City injury rate improved

Darling Ingredients Inc. Sioux City's TCR fell 4.7 from 4.7 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 11.9 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.7 · 2017=7.3 · 2018=4.9 · 2019=7.4 · 2020=11.9 · 2021=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311613 · Sioux City, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.0 · 183% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/9
  • PHOTO BVC - Arion
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~38 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: BVC - Arion (0.0 TCR gap)

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Darling Ingredients Inc. Sioux City in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Darling Ingredients Inc. Sioux City averages 6.0 TCR (183% of the Meat and bone meal and tankage, produced in rendering plant BLS benchmark).

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

Darling Ingredients Inc. Sioux City TCR series: 2016=4.7 · 2017=7.3 · 2018=4.9 · 2019=7.4 · 2020=11.9 · 2021=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Darling Ingredients Inc. Sioux City falls in its industry

151 Meat and bone meal and tankage establishments

Safer than 42% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 9 Meat and bone meal and tankage employers in Iowa.

Darling Ingredients Inc. Sioux City (38 employees, TCR 6.0) 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. Sioux City
Darling Ingredients Inc. Sioux City (38 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 46 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Darling Ingredients Inc. Sioux City has fewer employees than the Meat and bone meal and tankage, produced median and a higher 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
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 11.9 7.1 4 1 0
2019 7.4 4.9 3 0 0
2018 4.9 4.9 2 0 0
2017 7.3 7.3 3 0 0
2016 4.7 2.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311613 · IA · Sioux City

151 Meat and bone meal and tankage, produced in rendering plant employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 259 employers in Sioux City, IA · 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 BVC - Arion 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR RVI-Temperanceville 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Darling Ingredients 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR MS-Plant 6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE 2050-Clarion, IA 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Waukon Feed Ranch Agronomy Center 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Ames - Electric Production 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rognes Corp 38 FTE
CITY-NEAR Seaboard Triumph Foods 2,375 FTE
CITY-NEAR SeaboardTriumph Foods 1,896 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Luke's Regional Medical Center 1,201 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp 691 FTE
NAT-TCR Galax-Grayson EMS 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR South Hills 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Braddock Metallurgical-Daytona, Inc. 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Xanitos EVS at Regional Hospital of Scranton 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE James Candy Company 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alta Equipment Company Romulus 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Bureau 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rehab Transportation 38 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: 2021, 2020, 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.