Animal oil rendering · Louisiana

Darling Ingredients

Holden, LA · ~38 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Darling Ingredients runs at 184% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Animal oil rendering workplace, earning a grade D.

Darling Ingredients: 6.1 TCR = 184% of Animal oil rendering BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Darling Ingredients safety composite

Darling Ingredients scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 21%), 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)
D 6.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% 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: 4.0 → 6.7 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 13.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.1× in 2021

Darling Ingredients's TCR rose 2.7 from 4.0 in 2016 to 6.7 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 13.6 TCR. In 2021, DART was 1.1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311613 · Holden, LA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.1 · 184% of ind

  • DART 6.7 DART
  • RANK P40
  • PHOTO RVI-Temperanceville
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~38 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: RVI-Temperanceville (0.0 TCR gap)

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Darling Ingredients in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Darling Ingredients averages 6.1 TCR (184% of the Animal oil rendering BLS benchmark).

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

Darling Ingredients TCR series: 2016=4 · 2017=6 · 2018=6.2 · 2019=0 · 2020=13.6 · 2021=6.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Darling Ingredients falls in its industry

151 Animal oil rendering establishments

Safer than 40% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Darling Ingredients (38 employees, TCR 6.1) 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
Darling Ingredients (38 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 46 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Darling Ingredients has fewer employees than the Animal oil 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
2021 6.7 6.7 2 1 0
2020 13.6 13.6 6 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 6.2 6.2 3 0 0
2017 6.0 4.0 3 0 0
2016 4.0 2.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311613 · LA · Holden

151 Animal oil rendering employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 6,723 rated employers in Louisiana with headcount on file · 10 employers in Holden, LA · 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 RVI-Temperanceville 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR BVC - Arion 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Darling Ingredients Inc. Sioux City 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR MS-Plant 6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE START Building 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE River Parish Maintenance at Occidental Chemical Taft, Louisiana 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE M.D. Descant, LLC 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Performance Contractors, Inc. - Firestone Polymers 38 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ferrara Fire Apparatus 360 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ferrara Fire 359 FTE
CITY-NEAR Holden Lumber 132 FTE
CITY-NEAR HOLDEN 113 FTE
NAT-TCR Tradewinds Building and Development 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR The Fresh Market 048 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Touchmark at Harwood Groves LLC 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Thornton Steel Company, LLC 6.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE 7691-Enphg-Immaculata University 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Battery SOlutions LLC- Mesa, AZ 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ohio 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bakery Feeds - Watts 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.

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

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