Animal fats rendering · Pennsylvania

Darling Ingredients - Somerset

Somerset, PA · ~19 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Darling Ingredients - Somerset runs at 388% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Animal fats rendering workplace, earning a grade F.

Darling Ingredients - Somerset: 12.8 TCR = 388% of Animal fats rendering BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Darling Ingredients - Somerset safety composite

Darling Ingredients - Somerset scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 5%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% 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

−15.4

2023→2024

Darling Ingredients - Somerset injury rate improved

Darling Ingredients - Somerset's TCR fell 15.4 from 20.5 in 2023 to 5.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 20.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.4× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=20.5 · 2024=5.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311613 · Somerset, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 12.8 · 388% of ind

  • DART 5.1 DART
  • RANK #7/7
  • PHOTO Darling Ingredients …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Darling Ingredients Inc (0.3 TCR gap)

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Darling Ingredients - Somerset in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Darling Ingredients - Somerset averages 12.8 TCR (388% 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 - Somerset TCR series: 2023=20.5 · 2024=5.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Darling Ingredients - Somerset falls in its industry

151 Animal fats rendering establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 7 Animal fats rendering employers in Pennsylvania.

Darling Ingredients - Somerset (19 employees, TCR 12.8) 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 - Somerset
Darling Ingredients - Somerset (19 employees, TCR 12.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 46 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Darling Ingredients - Somerset has fewer 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
2024 5.1 5.1 1 0 0
2023 20.5 20.5 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311613 · PA · Somerset

151 Animal fats rendering employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 53 employers in Somerset, PA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Darling Ingredients Inc 13.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Protein Products, Inc. 12.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Darling Ingredients - Hamilton 12.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Protein Conversion 13.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kennett Square Mushroom Operation, LLC 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sullivan 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Williamsport Office 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE 473-NiSource-PA Central Horning Rd MOD 19 FTE
CITY-NEAR UPMC Somerset 664 FTE
CITY-NEAR Somerset Hospital 617 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wheeler Fleet Solutions - Somerset 338 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6795-86022B0199 332 FTE
NAT-TCR Riverside Peninsula Surgery Center 12.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Heidtman Steel Products Inc.-East Chicago 12.8 TCR
NAT-TCR GCG-Gynecology Center Greensboro 12.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Boondocks Food & Fun - Parker LLC 12.8 TCR

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. 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.