Rendering plants · Indiana

Darling Ingredients (Newberry)

Name: Darling Ingredients (Newberry) Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Newberry, IN · ~65 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 1.7
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Darling Ingredients (Newberry) runs at 50% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Rendering plants workplace, earning a grade B.

Darling Ingredients (Newberry): 1.7 TCR = 50% of Rendering plants BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Darling Ingredients (Newberry) safety composite

Darling Ingredients (Newberry) scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 93% 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).

77/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): A 1.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 93% of industry peers
DART rate: B 1.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% 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

−1.2

2018→2022

Darling Ingredients (Newberry) injury rate improved

Darling Ingredients (Newberry)'s TCR fell 1.2 from 2.6 in 2018 to 1.4 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2020 at 2.6 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.84× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=2.6 · 2020=2.6 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=1.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311613 · Newberry, IN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.7 · 50% of ind

DART 1.4 DART
RANK #3/7
PHOTO Pet Solutions
BOOK 4y book
INJ 5 inj
SIZE ~65 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pet Solutions (0.2 TCR gap)

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Hormel Foods C

1.9
Darling Ingred

1.9
Pet Solutions

1.8
This site

1.7
Nutri-Feeds, L

1.5

What this shows Darling Ingredients (Newberry) averages 1.7 TCR (50% of the Rendering plants BLS benchmark).

Darling Ingredients (Newberry) TCR series: 2018=2.6 · 2020=2.6 · 2021=0 · 2022=1.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Darling Ingredients (Newberry) falls in its industry

151 Rendering plants establishments

Safer than 93% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 7 Rendering plants employers in Indiana.

Darling Ingredients (Newberry) (65 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 46 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Darling Ingredients (Newberry) has more employees than the Rendering plants 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
2022	1.4	1.4	1
2021	0.0	0.0	0
2020	2.6	1.3	2
2018	2.6	1.3	2

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311613 · IN · Newberry

151 Rendering plants employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 3 employers in Newberry, IN · 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	Pet Solutions	DANVILLE, AR	1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Nutri-Feeds, LLC	HEREFORD, TX	1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Hormel Foods Corporation	ALGONA, IA	1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Darling Ingredients Inc. dba/DAR PRO Solutions	MIAMI, FL	1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE	FTWN NE Svc Ctr	NEW HAVEN	65 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Runnebohm Construction Company Inc	SHELBYVILLE	65 FTE
STATE-SIZE	TELECOM PLACEMENT INC	ZIONSVILLE	65 FTE
STATE-SIZE	COMBDRIN-IndyEast	INDIANAPOLIS	65 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Newberry Darling Ingredients	Newberry	65 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Darling Ingredients- Newberry, IN	Newberry	64 FTE
NAT-TCR	Kingspan Light and Air	Lake Forest, IL	1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Abernathy Construction Corporation	Glen Allen, VA	1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	2967-IL150	Waukegan, IL	1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	1366 - Lodi	Lodi, CA	1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Specialty Construction Systems LTD	Post Falls, ID	65 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Public Utility District #1 of Kitsap County	Poulsbo, WA	65 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Charleston SC Yard	Charleston, SC	65 FTE
NAT-SIZE	437164-Pvd-Garden City Br	Cranston, RI	65 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2018. 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.