Animal fats rendering · Texas

Darling Ingredients / Veribest

San Angelo, TX · ~45 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Darling Ingredients / Veribest runs at 88% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Animal fats rendering workplace, earning a grade C.

Darling Ingredients / Veribest: 2.9 TCR = 88% of Animal fats rendering BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Darling Ingredients / Veribest safety composite

Darling Ingredients / Veribest scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 82% 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

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% 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

2023→2024

Darling Ingredients / Veribest injury rate improved

Darling Ingredients / Veribest's TCR fell 1.9 from 3.8 in 2023 to 2.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 3.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.68× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=3.8 · 2024=2.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 2.9 · 88% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK #4/13
  • PHOTO DarPro Solutions-Blu…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~45 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: DarPro Solutions-Blue Island 090 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Darling Ingredients / Veribest in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Darling Ingredients / Veribest averages 2.9 TCR (88% 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 / Veribest TCR series: 2023=3.8 · 2024=2 · BLS 3.3

Where Darling Ingredients / Veribest falls in its industry

151 Animal fats rendering establishments

Safer than 82% 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 #4 safest of 13 Animal fats rendering employers in Texas.

Darling Ingredients / Veribest (45 employees, TCR 2.9) 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 / Veribest
Darling Ingredients / Veribest (45 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 46 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Darling Ingredients / Veribest 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 2.0 2.0 1 0 0
2023 3.8 3.8 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311613 · TX · San Angelo

151 Animal fats rendering employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 154 employers in San Angelo, 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 DarPro Solutions-Blue Island 090 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kerry 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bellevue-150 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Darling Ingredients Inc 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Coronado Feeders 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE FireBird Energy LLC 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Admiral Permian Resources 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cougar Completion Services LP 45 FTE
CITY-NEAR Shannon Medical Center 2,449 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ethicon Inc San Angelo 690 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Grill 662 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lone Star Beef Processors 660 FTE
NAT-TCR ColourPop Cosmetics 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Wilmington 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR West Valley Plant 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR North Shore Greenhouses, Inc. 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE True World Foods DC LLC 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ecogreen Solutions Inc. 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Goodfellow Bros. LLC - Wen Corp. 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gk Welding Inc 45 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.