Oil, animal, rendering · California

Darling Ingredients Los Angeles

Los Angeles, CA · ~72 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Darling Ingredients Los Angeles runs at 136% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Oil, animal, rendering workplace, earning a grade D.

Darling Ingredients Los Angeles: 4.5 TCR = 136% of Oil, animal, rendering BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Darling Ingredients Los Angeles safety composite

Darling Ingredients Los Angeles scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 59% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 46%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% 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

−2.6

2022→2024

Darling Ingredients Los Angeles injury rate improved

Darling Ingredients Los Angeles's TCR fell 2.6 from 5.9 in 2022 to 3.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 5.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.73× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=5.9 · 2023=4.3 · 2024=3.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311613 · Los Angeles, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.5 · 136% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK #4/8
  • PHOTO Darling Ingredients
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~72 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Darling Ingredients (0.0 TCR gap)

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Darling Ingredients Los Angeles in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Darling Ingredients Los Angeles averages 4.5 TCR (136% of the Oil, animal, rendering BLS benchmark).

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

Darling Ingredients Los Angeles TCR series: 2022=5.9 · 2023=4.3 · 2024=3.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Darling Ingredients Los Angeles falls in its industry

151 Oil, animal, rendering establishments

Safer than 59% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 8 Oil, animal, rendering employers in California.

Darling Ingredients Los Angeles (72 employees, TCR 4.5) 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 Los Angeles
Darling Ingredients Los Angeles (72 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 46 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Darling Ingredients Los Angeles has more employees than the Oil, 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 3.3 3.3 3 0 0
2023 4.3 3.3 4 0 0
2022 5.9 4.4 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311613 · CA · Los Angeles

151 Oil, animal, rendering employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 2,064 employers in Los Angeles, CA · 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 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mahoney Environmental Operations 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Keystone Protein 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Blue Earth MN 4.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Monterey Pacific, LLC 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE Arts Ranch 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mellano & Company - Los Angeles Wholesale House 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greg Hooker dba Diamond H Dairy 72 FTE
CITY-NEAR Live Nation Worldwide, Inc. 50,317 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC Los Angeles 40,333 FTE
CITY-NEAR LADWP 11,717 FTE
CITY-NEAR Los Angeles Department of Water and Power 10,346 FTE
NAT-TCR Montague 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR The Fresh Market 137 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Ford Construction Company 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR ERI Badin, NC 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE JM Steel Corporation 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lundquist Associates 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lynn Mayer's Great Lakes Glads, Inc. 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE J. R. Kelly Company, Inc. 72 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, 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.