Animal fats rendering · Washington

Darling Ingredients-Tacoma

Tacoma, WA · ~34 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Darling Ingredients-Tacoma runs at 126% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Animal fats rendering workplace, earning a grade D.

Darling Ingredients-Tacoma: 4.2 TCR = 126% of Animal fats rendering BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Darling Ingredients-Tacoma safety composite

Darling Ingredients-Tacoma scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 92% 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).

C

72/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% 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

−7.5

2022→2024

Darling Ingredients-Tacoma injury rate improved

Darling Ingredients-Tacoma's TCR fell 7.5 from 7.5 in 2022 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 7.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=7.5 · 2023=5.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311613 · Tacoma, WA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.2 · 126% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P66
  • PHOTO SIMMONS ANIMAL NUTRI…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~34 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SIMMONS ANIMAL NUTRITION-DRY (0.0 TCR gap)

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Darling Ingredients-Tacoma in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Darling Ingredients-Tacoma averages 4.2 TCR (126% 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-Tacoma TCR series: 2022=7.5 · 2023=5 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Darling Ingredients-Tacoma falls in its industry

151 Animal fats rendering establishments

Safer than 66% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Darling Ingredients-Tacoma (34 employees, TCR 4.2) 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-Tacoma
Darling Ingredients-Tacoma (34 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 46 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Darling Ingredients-Tacoma has fewer employees than the Animal fats 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 5.0 5.0 2 0 0
2022 7.5 5.6 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311613 · WA · Tacoma

151 Animal fats rendering employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,147 rated employers in Washington with headcount on file · 445 employers in Tacoma, WA · 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 SIMMONS ANIMAL NUTRITION-DRY 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Detroit 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Darling Ingredients Amarillo 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sanimax USA LLC 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE M & G Farms Inc 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dobbe Farms, LLC 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Benjert Farms Inc 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kettle Falls Logging - WP 34 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tacoma General Hospital (Companied 10 & 20) 3,718 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Tacoma 3,689 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tacoma General Hospital 3,247 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2643-46080001-460801 3,061 FTE
NAT-TCR 583009-Lakeland | WI | DYL-350 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 533010-Little Elm | TX | TEX-750 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Earth Images, Inc. 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Steiner Real Estate Services, LLC 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Diesel Truck Sales, Inc. 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Svfoods Old Hammond 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Badger Precision Cut Stock Inc 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bauer Corporation 34 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.