Pork carcasses, half carcasses, and primal and sub-primal cuts produced in slaughtering plants · Illinois

JBS Swift Pork Company

Beardstown, IL · ~1,998 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

JBS Swift Pork Company runs at 116% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Pork carcasses, half carcasses, and primal and sub-primal cuts produced in slaughtering plants workplace, earning a grade C.

JBS Swift Pork Company: 3.8 TCR = 116% of Pork carcasses, half carcasses, and primal and sub-primal cuts produced in slaughtering plants BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

JBS Swift Pork Company safety composite

JBS Swift Pork Company scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 66% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 55%), 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

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% of industry peers

Fatalities
C 0

Safer than 55% 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%).

JBS Swift Pork Company held a steady TCR band

JBS Swift Pork Company's TCR held near 0.1 from 4.0 in 2017 to 3.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 4.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.61× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=4.0 · 2018=3.3 · 2019=4.2 · 2024=3.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311611 · Beardstown, IL ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade C · TCR 3.8 · 116% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK #7/12
  • PHOTO SWIFT PORK COMPANY W…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 179 inj
  • SIZE ~1,998 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SWIFT PORK COMPANY WORTHINGTON (0.0 TCR gap)

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JBS Swift Pork Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows JBS Swift Pork Company averages 3.8 TCR (116% of the Pork carcasses, half carcasses, and primal and sub-primal cuts produced in slaughtering plants BLS benchmark).

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

JBS Swift Pork Company TCR series: 2017=4 · 2018=3.3 · 2019=4.2 · 2024=3.9 · BLS 3.3

Where JBS Swift Pork Company falls in its industry

212 Pork carcasses, half carcasses establishments

Safer than 66% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 12 Pork carcasses, half carcasses employers in Illinois.

JBS Swift Pork Company (1,998 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 297 employees and a TCR of 5.3 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate JBS Swift Pork Company
JBS Swift Pork Company (1,998 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 297 employees and a TCR of 5.3

JBS Swift Pork Company has more employees than the Pork carcasses, half carcasses, and prim median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.3. 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 3.9 2.3 45 36 0
2019 4.2 1.3 53 37 0
2018 3.3 1.3 40 25 0
2017 4.0 1.2 41 38 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311611 · IL · Beardstown

212 Pork carcasses, half carcasses, and primal and sub-primal cuts produced in slaughtering plants employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 17 employers in Beardstown, IL · 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 SWIFT PORK COMPANY WORTHINGTON 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Primary Beef - Dodge City KS 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Production 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Creekstone Farms 3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Decatur Memorial Hospital 1,982 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dot Foods, Inc. Mt. Sterling 1,971 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bannockburn 2,026 FTE
STATE-SIZE North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : MDW4 2,027 FTE
CITY-NEAR Swift Pork 1,781 FTE
CITY-NEAR PSSI - 0063 JBS USA - Beardstown 195 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1451 157 FTE
CITY-NEAR PSSI / JBS USA - BEARDSTOWN 149 FTE
NAT-TCR Warren's Wood Works Inc 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Pacific Southwest Structures, Inc. 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Sweetwood of Williamstown Independent Living Comm 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Beckenhauer Construction, Inc. 3.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Dynamic Systems, Inc. 1,998 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alta Bates Summit Medical Center (213-ABH) 1,998 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fci Beckley 1,999 FTE
NAT-SIZE St Anthony Hospital 1,997 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, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.