Fats, animal, rendering · Tennessee

Darling Ingredients Union City TN

Union City, TN · ~77 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Darling Ingredients Union City TN runs at 196% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Fats, animal, rendering workplace, earning a grade D.

Darling Ingredients Union City TN: 6.5 TCR = 196% of Fats, animal, rendering BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Darling Ingredients Union City TN safety composite

Darling Ingredients Union City TN scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 38%), 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

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
B 1.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% 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

−7.8

2016→2018

Darling Ingredients Union City TN injury rate improved

Darling Ingredients Union City TN's TCR fell 7.8 from 9.9 in 2016 to 2.1 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 9.9 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.16× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=9.9 · 2017=7.5 · 2018=2.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 6.5 · 196% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK P38
  • PHOTO SFI WET
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~77 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SFI WET (0.0 TCR gap)

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Darling Ingredients Union City TN in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Darling Ingredients Union City TN averages 6.5 TCR (196% 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 TN TCR series: 2016=9.9 · 2017=7.5 · 2018=2.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Darling Ingredients Union City TN falls in its industry

151 Fats, animal, rendering establishments

Safer than 38% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Darling Ingredients Union City TN (77 employees, TCR 6.5) 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 TN
Darling Ingredients Union City TN (77 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 46 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Darling Ingredients Union City TN 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
2018 2.1 1.0 2 0 0
2017 7.5 5.3 7 0 0
2016 9.9 5.9 9 1 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 SFI WET 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Central Bi-Products - Estherville 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Darling Ingredients-TURLOCK 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Darling Ingredients Inc. Kansas City 6.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bristol Tennessee Essential Services 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Foundation Specialists 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE Porter Roofing Contractors Morrison, TN 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mid South Industrial, Inc. 77 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 Shopko Hometown #739 (Glenwood, MN) 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR SP Richards Company 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Omni Systems Inc 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Senior Care at Lake Pointe 6.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE The Suter Company, Inc. (Bethany) 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE Marriott Residence Inn Beverly Hills 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chippewa County Road Commission 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mersen Salem 77 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.