Rendering plants · Washington

Tacoma Darling Ingredients

Tacoma, WA · ~63 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Tacoma Darling Ingredients runs at 214% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Rendering plants workplace, earning a grade F.

Tacoma Darling Ingredients: 7.1 TCR = 214% of Rendering plants BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tacoma Darling Ingredients safety composite

Tacoma Darling Ingredients scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 22%), 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).

F

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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

−1.1

2017→2018

Tacoma Darling Ingredients injury rate improved

Tacoma Darling Ingredients's TCR fell 1.1 from 7.6 in 2017 to 6.5 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 7.6 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.92× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=7.6 · 2018=6.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 7.1 · 214% of ind

  • DART 6.5 DART
  • RANK P31
  • PHOTO RVI-Harmony
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~63 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: RVI-Harmony (0.0 TCR gap)

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Tacoma Darling Ingredients in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Tacoma Darling Ingredients averages 7.1 TCR (214% of the Rendering plants BLS benchmark).

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

Tacoma Darling Ingredients TCR series: 2017=7.6 · 2018=6.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Tacoma Darling Ingredients falls in its industry

151 Rendering plants establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Tacoma Darling Ingredients (63 employees, TCR 7.1) 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 Tacoma Darling Ingredients
Tacoma Darling Ingredients (63 employees, TCR 7.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 46 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Tacoma Darling Ingredients has more employees than the Rendering plants 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 6.5 6.5 5 0 0
2017 7.6 5.1 5 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311613 · WA · Tacoma

151 Rendering plants 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 RVI-Harmony 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Darling Ingredients, Inc Denver 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fieldale Farms - Toccoa Protein Conversion Plant 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Darling Ingredients LLC Tampa 7.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Watson's Greenhouse 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE John I Haas Inc 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE George DeRuyter & Sons Dairy 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE Manke Lumber Company Inc. - Shelton 63 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 0026 - Riverside, Ca 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 0391 - Avondale, Az 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Charleston Center (Sccha) 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Denver Heating & Air Conditioning 7.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cascades Tissue Group North Carolina - Rockingham 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE RAFS of Pensacola, Inc 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Woodward Printing Services/GIL Shopping News 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Piper Plastic Illinois 63 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. 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.