Rendering plants · New Jersey

Darling Ingredients

Newark, NJ · ~119 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
15.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Darling Ingredients runs at 457% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Rendering plants workplace, earning a grade F.

Darling Ingredients: 15.1 TCR = 457% of Rendering plants BLS 3.3 · 3y 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 total case rate (tcr) (safer than 3%), 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).

F

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 15.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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

−7.3

2022→2024

Darling Ingredients injury rate improved

Darling Ingredients's TCR fell 7.3 from 16.8 in 2022 to 9.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 19.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.48× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=16.8 · 2023=19.0 · 2024=9.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311613 · Newark, NJ ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 15.1 · 457% of ind

  • DART 7.3 DART
  • RANK P3
  • PHOTO Darling Ingredients:…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 63 inj
  • SIZE ~119 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Darling Ingredients: Holden (0.5 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 15.1 TCR (457% of the Rendering plants BLS benchmark).

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

Darling Ingredients TCR series: 2022=16.8 · 2023=19 · 2024=9.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Darling Ingredients falls in its industry

151 Rendering plants establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Darling Ingredients (119 employees, TCR 15.1) 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 (119 employees, TCR 15.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 46 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Darling Ingredients has more employees than the Rendering plants 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
2024 9.5 7.3 13 0 0
2023 19.0 15.5 26 1 0
2022 16.8 16.1 24 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311613 · NJ · Newark

151 Rendering plants employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 356 employers in Newark, NJ · 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: Holden 15.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Central Bi Products Estherville 14.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Protein Conversion 13.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Darling Ingredients Inc 13.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE New Jersey American Water - Delran 119 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hollister Construction Services 119 FTE
STATE-SIZE LPS Industries LLC 119 FTE
STATE-SIZE Unex Manufacturing Inc 119 FTE
CITY-NEAR EWR EWR 13,545 FTE
CITY-NEAR EWR - Airport United Airlines Offices 13,015 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6925-EWR 11,764 FTE
CITY-NEAR EWRPW9829 EWR - NON AA PAX SER 4,772 FTE
NAT-TCR Lit-Ground Ops 15.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Sysco Connecticut, LLC 15.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Houston Mfg. & Ins., Inc. 15.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Church of God Home 15.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE SDP, Inc 119 FTE
NAT-SIZE Acro Industries 119 FTE
NAT-SIZE Baltimore Call Center 119 FTE
NAT-SIZE OmniSource, LLC - P2 Ferrous 119 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.