Fats, animal, rendering · Mississippi

Darling Ingredients, Jackson MS

Name: Darling Ingredients, Jackson MS Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Byram, MS · ~111 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 2.7
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Darling Ingredients, Jackson MS runs at 82% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Fats, animal, rendering workplace, earning a grade C.

Darling Ingredients, Jackson MS: 2.7 TCR = 82% of Fats, animal, rendering BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Darling Ingredients, Jackson MS safety composite

Darling Ingredients, Jackson MS scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 85% 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).

75/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 2.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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

−3.6

2022→2024

Darling Ingredients, Jackson MS injury rate improved

Darling Ingredients, Jackson MS's TCR fell 3.6 from 4.5 in 2022 to 0.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 4.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.35× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=4.5 · 2024=0.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311613 · Byram, MS AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.7 · 82% of ind

DART 0.9 DART
RANK #1/5
PHOTO Ottumwa
BOOK 2y book
INJ 9 inj
SIZE ~111 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ottumwa (0.0 TCR gap)

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RVI-Cumming

2.8
John Kuhni Son

2.8
Kerry

2.8
This site

2.7
Ottumwa

2.7

What this shows Darling Ingredients, Jackson MS averages 2.7 TCR (82% of the Fats, animal, rendering BLS benchmark).

Darling Ingredients, Jackson MS TCR series: 2022=4.5 · 2024=0.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Darling Ingredients, Jackson MS falls in its industry

151 Fats, animal, rendering establishments

Safer than 85% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Mississippi alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 5 Fats, animal, rendering employers in Mississippi.

Darling Ingredients, Jackson MS (111 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 46 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Darling Ingredients, Jackson MS has more employees than the Fats, animal, 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
2024	0.9	0.9	1	0	0
2022	4.5	3.9	8	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311613 · MS · Byram

151 Fats, animal, rendering employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,083 rated employers in Mississippi with headcount on file · 21 employers in Byram, MS · 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	Ottumwa	OTTUMWA, IL	2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	RVI-Cumming	CUMMING, GA	2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	John Kuhni Sons, Inc.	LEVAN, UT	2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Kerry	HARRISONBURG, VA	2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE	H2A Complete II, Inc. Richardson Brothers Greenhouse, Inc.	SOUTHAVEN	111 FTE
STATE-SIZE	MPC Operations Center	GULFPORT	111 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Advance Electric Co Inc	OLIVE BRANCH	111 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Viking Range, LLC - Refrigeration Products	GREENWOOD	111 FTE
CITY-NEAR	6469	Byram	311 FTE
CITY-NEAR	WM 6469	Byram	298 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Diebold Nixdorf Byram MS	Byram	203 FTE
CITY-NEAR	025-00490	Byram	161 FTE
NAT-TCR	Chelsea Operator LLC	Goochland, VA	2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Eugene Oregon Branch - Pacific Office Automation Inc.	Eugene, OR	2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Volkswagen of North Tampa	Tampa, FL	2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Corporate Services - Belfry	Belfry, KY	2.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE	5114 - AZ ASPC Perryville - NaphCare AZ	Goodyear, AZ	111 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Harrisburg Property Services	Harrisburg, PA	111 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Jacksonville, FL - 309	Jacksonville, FL	111 FTE
NAT-SIZE	The Phoenix at Braselton	Hoschton, GA	111 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, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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