Rendering fats · Texas

Darling Ingredients

Houston, TX · ~35 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Darling Ingredients runs at 40% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Rendering fats workplace, earning a grade A.

Darling Ingredients: 1.3 TCR = 40% of Rendering fats BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Darling Ingredients safety composite

Darling Ingredients scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 95% 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).

B

83/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 95% 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

−1.9

2018→2024

Darling Ingredients injury rate improved

Darling Ingredients's TCR fell 1.9 from 1.9 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 2.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=1.9 · 2022=2.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311613 · Houston, TX AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.3 · 40% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/13
  • PHOTO Darling Ingredients-…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~35 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Darling Ingredients- Newberry, IN (0.0 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 1.3 TCR (40% of the Rendering fats BLS benchmark).

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

Darling Ingredients TCR series: 2018=1.9 · 2022=2 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Darling Ingredients falls in its industry

151 Rendering fats establishments

Safer than 95% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 13 Rendering fats employers in Texas.

Darling Ingredients (35 employees, TCR 1.3) 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 (35 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 46 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Darling Ingredients has fewer employees than the Rendering fats 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
2022 2.0 2.0 1 0 0
2018 1.9 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311613 · TX · Houston

151 Rendering fats employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 5,116 employers in Houston, TX · 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- Newberry, IN 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nutri-Feeds, LLC 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mahoney Environmental Joliet 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kaluzny Bros.,Inc. 1.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Southwest Feedyard 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE CDF Dairy 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cal-Maine Foods, Inc. - Marion, TX 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Growers Select Produce, Inc. 35 FTE
CITY-NEAR IAH IAH 11,560 FTE
CITY-NEAR IAH - Airport United Airlines Offices 10,239 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6925-IAH 9,442 FTE
CITY-NEAR Houston Methodist Hospital Texas Medical Center 8,873 FTE
NAT-TCR City of Sebeka 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Headway Technologies, Inc. 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Bus Public Transportation 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR PLANT 1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Watson-Forsberg Co. 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Holiday Inn Express & Suites 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE RUSH Marine, LLC 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mamacita Inc. 35 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, 2022, 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.