Rendering plants · Illinois

Darling Ingredients: St. Louis

National Stockyards, IL · ~38 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Darling Ingredients: St. Louis runs at 351% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Rendering plants workplace, earning a grade F.

Darling Ingredients: St. Louis: 11.6 TCR = 351% of Rendering plants BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Darling Ingredients: St. Louis safety composite

Darling Ingredients: St. Louis scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 9%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% 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

−3.6

2019→2024

Darling Ingredients: St. Louis injury rate improved

Darling Ingredients: St. Louis's TCR fell 3.6 from 6.4 in 2019 to 2.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 20.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.24× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=6.4 · 2020=20.0 · 2022=8.5 · 2023=20.1 · 2024=2.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311613 · National Stockyards, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.6 · 351% of ind

  • DART 2.8 DART
  • RANK #8/9
  • PHOTO Darling Ingredients …
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~38 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Darling Ingredients Columbus Indiana (0.1 TCR gap)

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Darling Ingredients: St. Louis in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Darling Ingredients: St. Louis averages 11.6 TCR (351% 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: St. Louis TCR series: 2019=6.4 · 2020=20 · 2022=8.5 · 2023=20.1 · 2024=2.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Darling Ingredients: St. Louis falls in its industry

151 Rendering plants establishments

Safer than 9% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 9 Rendering plants employers in Illinois.

Darling Ingredients: St. Louis (38 employees, TCR 11.6) 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: St. Louis
Darling Ingredients: St. Louis (38 employees, TCR 11.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 46 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Darling Ingredients: St. Louis has fewer 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 2.8 2.8 1 0 0
2023 20.1 17.9 9 0 0
2022 8.5 8.5 4 0 0
2020 20.0 17.5 7 1 0
2019 6.4 6.4 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311613 · IL · National Stockyards

151 Rendering plants employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 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 Columbus Indiana 11.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Darling Ingredients 11.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Butler Rendering 11.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Darling Ingredients - Hamilton 12.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE GDM Seeds, Inc - Gibson City, IL 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Distribution Operating - Peoria 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE 629 - Distribution Operating - Peoria 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Freeport 38 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stockyards Facility 32 FTE
NAT-TCR Quality Custom Distribution Aurora 11.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Brotman Medical Center 11.6 TCR
NAT-TCR West Coast FL Enterprises, Inc 11.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Mayoka Services, LLC 11.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mosaic Liberal 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE A. Scott Enterprises, Inc 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Inland Asphalt Company - Central WA 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Schroeder Movings Systems Inc 38 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, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.