Animal fats rendering · Washington

Darling Ingredients

Tacoma, WA · ~47 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Darling Ingredients runs at 174% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Animal fats rendering workplace, earning a grade D.

Darling Ingredients: 5.8 TCR = 174% of Animal fats rendering BLS 3.3 · 3y 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 dart rate (safer than 41%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% 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

−1.2

2019→2021

Darling Ingredients injury rate improved

Darling Ingredients's TCR fell 1.2 from 4.9 in 2019 to 3.7 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 8.7 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.64× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=4.9 · 2020=8.7 · 2021=3.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311613 · Tacoma, WA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.8 · 174% of ind

  • DART 3.7 DART
  • RANK P46
  • PHOTO Wadesboro
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~47 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Wadesboro (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 5.8 TCR (174% 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 TCR series: 2019=4.9 · 2020=8.7 · 2021=3.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Darling Ingredients falls in its industry

151 Animal fats rendering establishments

Safer than 46% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Darling Ingredients (47 employees, TCR 5.8) 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 (47 employees, TCR 5.8) 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
2021 3.7 3.7 2 0 0
2020 8.7 8.7 5 0 0
2019 4.9 4.9 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311613 · WA · Tacoma

151 Animal fats rendering employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,147 rated employers in Washington with headcount on file · 445 employers in Tacoma, WA · 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 Wadesboro 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR DARLING INGREDIENTS INC. - CROWS LANDING 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Darling Ingredients 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Darling Ingredients: Union City 5.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Longview ST. Helens 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stemilt Ag Services (Administration) 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE RAH Washington Division Office/Home Gallery 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE IMAC Inc 47 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tacoma General Hospital (Companied 10 & 20) 3,718 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Tacoma 3,689 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tacoma General Hospital 3,247 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2643-46080001-460801 3,061 FTE
NAT-TCR 4818-IA01 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 414-DC002 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 4598-Rtl Pico Rivera 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Spectrum Health-Blodgett 5.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE MO Office 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Elk River MN Thrift Store 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE 42121f - Norwich Pec 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE 43381r - Lowell Ar Ges Pec 47 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: 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.