Animal fats rendering · Florida

Darling Ingredients LLC Tampa

Tampa, FL · ~50 workers · 5 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 LLC Tampa 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 LLC Tampa: 7.2 TCR = 217% of Animal fats rendering BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Darling Ingredients LLC Tampa safety composite

Darling Ingredients LLC Tampa 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% 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%).

Darling Ingredients LLC Tampa held a steady TCR band

Darling Ingredients LLC Tampa's TCR held near 0.3 from 3.2 in 2016 to 3.5 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 13.1 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.49× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.2 · 2017=8.0 · 2018=8.1 · 2019=13.1 · 2020=3.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311613 · Tampa, FL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.2 · 217% of ind

  • DART 3.5 DART
  • RANK #6/6
  • PHOTO Darling Ingredients …
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~50 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Darling Ingredients Inc. - Terre Hill, Pa. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Darling Ingredients LLC Tampa in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Darling Ingredients LLC Tampa 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 LLC Tampa TCR series: 2016=3.2 · 2017=8 · 2018=8.1 · 2019=13.1 · 2020=3.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Darling Ingredients LLC Tampa 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 Florida alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 6 Animal fats rendering employers in Florida.

Darling Ingredients LLC Tampa (50 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 LLC Tampa
Darling Ingredients LLC Tampa (50 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 LLC Tampa 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
2020 3.5 3.5 2 0 0
2019 13.1 9.8 7 1 0
2018 8.1 6.4 5 0 0
2017 8.0 8.0 5 0 0
2016 3.2 3.2 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311613 · FL · Tampa

151 Animal fats rendering employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 26,569 rated employers in Florida with headcount on file · 1,659 employers in Tampa, FL · 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 Inc. - Terre Hill, Pa. 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 Bushnell 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cal-Maine foods Lake City 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE M & M Packing LLC 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Walton Service Center 50 FTE
CITY-NEAR Diversified Maintenance Systems LLC 10,600 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tampa General Hospital 7,849 FTE
CITY-NEAR Valet Living, LLC 6,337 FTE
CITY-NEAR ST. Joseph's Hospital (5100) 5,540 FTE
NAT-TCR Plant # 6 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Plant 52 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Armstrong Associates 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 621 - Austin Branch - Rsg 7.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Capital Choice Pathology Laboratory 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corporate 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE IL01-SMA-CHICAGO 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE TWB Antioch 50 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: 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.