Fats, animal, rendering · Tennessee

Darling Ingredients: Union City

Union City, TN · ~76 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Darling Ingredients: Union City runs at 170% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Fats, animal, rendering workplace, earning a grade D.

Darling Ingredients: Union City: 5.6 TCR = 170% of Fats, animal, rendering BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Darling Ingredients: Union City safety composite

Darling Ingredients: Union City scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 20%), 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).

D

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% 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%).

Darling Ingredients: Union City held a steady TCR band

Darling Ingredients: Union City's TCR held near 0.1 from 6.8 in 2020 to 6.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 6.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=6.8 · 2021=4.5 · 2022=3.5 · 2023=6.5 · 2024=6.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311613 · Union City, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.6 · 170% of ind

  • DART 6.8 DART
  • RANK P48
  • PHOTO Darling Ingredients:…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 25 inj
  • SIZE ~76 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Darling Ingredients: Grapeland (0.0 TCR gap)

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Darling Ingredients: Union City in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Darling Ingredients: Union City averages 5.6 TCR (170% of the Fats, animal, rendering BLS benchmark).

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

Darling Ingredients: Union City TCR series: 2020=6.8 · 2021=4.5 · 2022=3.5 · 2023=6.5 · 2024=6.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Darling Ingredients: Union City falls in its industry

151 Fats, animal, rendering establishments

Safer than 48% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Darling Ingredients: Union City (76 employees, TCR 5.6) 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: Union City
Darling Ingredients: Union City (76 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 46 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Darling Ingredients: Union City has more employees than the Fats, animal, 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 6.8 6.8 6 0 0
2023 6.5 5.5 6 0 0
2022 3.5 1.2 3 0 0
2021 4.5 2.2 3 1 0
2020 6.8 6.8 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311613 · TN · Union City

151 Fats, animal, rendering employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 44 employers in Union City, TN · 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: Grapeland 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Darling Ingredients 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR PLANT 180 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR DARLING INGREDIENTS INC. - CROWS LANDING 5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kingsport Svc Ctr 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dickson Electric System 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE Knoxville 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE Frontier Basement Systems 76 FTE
CITY-NEAR Obion County Plant 1,395 FTE
CITY-NEAR Williams Sausage 414 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hickman Road Plant 376 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baptist Memorial Hospital - Union City 335 FTE
NAT-TCR Great Wolf Lodge 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Duwe Metal Products, Inc. 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Interstate Warehousing Inc. 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Edenton 5.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Liberal SNF OP CO LLC dba Wheatridge Park Care Center 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE RH Marcon Inc. 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE Victor Insulators, Inc. 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jackson Facility 76 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, 2021, 2020. 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.