Animal fats rendering · Pennsylvania

Darling Ingredients Inc. - Terre Hill, Pa.

East Earl, PA · ~64 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Darling Ingredients Inc. - Terre Hill, Pa. runs at 217% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Animal fats rendering workplace, earning a grade F.

Darling Ingredients Inc. - Terre Hill, Pa.: 7.2 TCR = 217% of Animal fats rendering BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Darling Ingredients Inc. - Terre Hill, Pa. safety composite

Darling Ingredients Inc. - Terre Hill, Pa. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 30%), 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

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% 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

−5.3

2023→2024

Darling Ingredients Inc. - Terre Hill, Pa. injury rate improved

Darling Ingredients Inc. - Terre Hill, Pa.'s TCR fell 5.3 from 9.8 in 2023 to 4.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 9.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.63× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=9.8 · 2024=4.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311613 · East Earl, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.2 · 217% of ind

  • DART 4.5 DART
  • RANK #6/7
  • PHOTO Darling Ingredients …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~64 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Darling Ingredients LLC Tampa (0.0 TCR gap)

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Darling Ingredients Inc. - Terre Hill, Pa. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Darling Ingredients Inc. - Terre Hill, Pa. averages 7.2 TCR (217% 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. - Terre Hill, Pa. TCR series: 2023=9.8 · 2024=4.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Darling Ingredients Inc. - Terre Hill, Pa. falls in its industry

151 Animal fats rendering establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 7 Animal fats rendering employers in Pennsylvania.

Darling Ingredients Inc. - Terre Hill, Pa. (64 employees, TCR 7.2) 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. - Terre Hill, Pa.
Darling Ingredients Inc. - Terre Hill, Pa. (64 employees, TCR 7.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 46 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Darling Ingredients Inc. - Terre Hill, Pa. has more employees than the Animal fats rendering 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
2024 4.5 4.5 3 0 0
2023 9.8 5.6 6 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311613 · PA · East Earl

151 Animal fats rendering employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 18 employers in East Earl, PA · 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 Darling Ingredients LLC Tampa 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Darling Ingredients Inc. 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Progressive Protein 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Terra Renewal Inc 7.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hershey Ag Services 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE Garman Builders, Inc. office 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE West Penn Energy Services 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE 160 Water Street, Reading, PA 19605 64 FTE
CITY-NEAR East Earl 651 FTE
CITY-NEAR Shady Maple Smorgasbord 414 FTE
CITY-NEAR Shady Maple Farm Market 411 FTE
CITY-NEAR Meridian Products LLC 139 FTE
NAT-TCR Nynas - Nassau 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Wilton Manors 10073 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Tulsa 10417 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Emerald Isle Landscaping 7.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bravo Company USA, Inc 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tebbens Steel LLC 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cp Feeds LLC 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE Subaru Telescope - NAOJ 64 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.