Animal fats rendering · Virginia

Darling Ingredients

Name: Darling Ingredients Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Linville, VA · ~95 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 11.7
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Darling Ingredients runs at 355% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Animal fats rendering workplace, earning a grade F.

Darling Ingredients: 11.7 TCR = 355% of Animal fats rendering BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Darling Ingredients safety composite

Darling Ingredients scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 7%), 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).

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 11.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers
DART rate: F 9.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Darling Ingredients: 11.3 → 12.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 12.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.78× in 2024

Darling Ingredients's TCR rose 0.9 from 11.3 in 2023 to 12.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.78× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311613 · Linville, VA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.7 · 355% of ind

DART 9.1 DART
RANK #5/5
PHOTO Darling Ingredients …
BOOK 2y book
INJ 24 inj
SIZE ~95 FTE

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

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Darling Ingred

12.1
This site

11.7
Darling Ingred

11.7
Darling Ingred

11.6
Butler Renderi

11.2

What this shows Darling Ingredients averages 11.7 TCR (355% of the Animal fats rendering BLS benchmark).

Darling Ingredients TCR series: 2023=11.3 · 2024=12.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Darling Ingredients falls in its industry

151 Animal fats rendering establishments

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 5 Animal fats rendering employers in Virginia.

Darling Ingredients (95 employees, TCR 11.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 46 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Darling Ingredients has more employees than the Animal fats 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	12.2	9.1	12	0	0
2023	11.3	7.5	12	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311613 · VA · Linville

151 Animal fats rendering employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia 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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Darling Ingredients Columbus Indiana	COLUMBUS, IN	11.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Darling Ingredients: St. Louis	NATIONAL STOCKYARDS, IL	11.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Darling Ingredients - Hamilton	HAMILTON, MI	12.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Butler Rendering	BUTLER, KY	11.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE	REC - Bowling Green	WOODFORD	95 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Virginia Division Office	RESTON	95 FTE
STATE-SIZE	DC - Clune Construction Company	VIENNA	95 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Jamerson Lewis Construction	LYNCHBURG	95 FTE
CITY-NEAR	New Market Poultry, LLC	Linville	168 FTE
NAT-TCR	Ny700 - Palisades	Blauvelt, NY	11.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Hyatt at Olive 8	Seattle, WA	11.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Goodwill Store Lambertville	Lambertville, MI	11.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Bakersfield Branch	Bakersfield, CA	11.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Bella Terra LaGrange	Lagrange, IL	95 FTE
NAT-SIZE	North Platte Care Center	North Platte, NE	95 FTE
NAT-SIZE	EMS - Sanctuary West St. Paul	West St. Paul, MN	95 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Utah Tile and Roofing Inc.	Salt Lake City, UT	95 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. 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.