Bacon, slab and sliced, made from purchased carcasses · California

Smithfield Foods

San Jose, CA · ~175 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Smithfield Foods runs at 120% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Bacon, slab and sliced, made from purchased carcasses workplace, earning a grade C.

Smithfield Foods: 4.0 TCR = 120% of Bacon, slab and sliced, made from purchased carcasses BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Smithfield Foods safety composite

Smithfield Foods scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 94% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

67/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 94% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

−0.5

2018→2019

Smithfield Foods injury rate improved

Smithfield Foods's TCR fell 0.5 from 4.2 in 2018 to 3.7 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 4.2 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=4.2 · 2019=3.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311612 · San Jose, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 4.0 · 120% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #15/43
  • PHOTO Schweid & Sons (GA)
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~175 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Schweid & Sons (GA) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Smithfield Foods in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Smithfield Foods averages 4.0 TCR (120% of the Bacon, slab and sliced, made from purchased carcasses BLS benchmark).

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

Smithfield Foods TCR series: 2018=4.2 · 2019=3.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Smithfield Foods falls in its industry

613 Bacon, slab and sliced, made f establishments

Safer than 54% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 43 Bacon, slab and sliced, made f employers in California.

Smithfield Foods (175 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Smithfield Foods
Smithfield Foods (175 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Smithfield Foods has fewer employees than the Bacon, slab and sliced, made from purcha median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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
2019 3.7 0.0 7 0 0
2018 4.2 2.8 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · CA · San Jose

613 Bacon, slab and sliced, made from purchased carcasses employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 1,102 employers in San Jose, CA · 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 Schweid & Sons (GA) 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Birchwood Foods 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Smithfield Carroll 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 304 3.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE SANTA BARBARA FARMS, LLC 175 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bradcon LLC dba: Bradley Concrete 175 FTE
STATE-SIZE Syserco, Inc. 175 FTE
STATE-SIZE CCI:CC023 - CC023 -McClellan Park, CA 175 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2636-CALIFORNIA.SAN JOSE 11,308 FTE
CITY-NEAR Santa Clara Valley Healthcare, Valley Medical Center (Hospital & Clinics) 7,299 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rosendin - Main 6,964 FTE
CITY-NEAR Santa Clara Valley Medical Center (SCVMC & Clinics) 6,576 FTE
NAT-TCR CTL 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 812 Town & Country Industries 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #333 FLORENCE, AL 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 759 - Philadelphia 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Michels Pipeline- OH 175 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kenwal Steel Corp 175 FTE
NAT-SIZE Equipment Depot Illinois Inc. 175 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vliet 175 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: 2019, 2018. 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.