Meats fresh, chilled or frozen (except poultry and small game), produced in slaughtering plants · Iowa

Smithfield Foods Denison IA

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Denison, IA · ~1,103 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 3.6
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Smithfield Foods Denison IA runs at 110% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Meats fresh, chilled or frozen (except poultry and small game), produced in slaughtering plants workplace, earning a grade C.

Smithfield Foods Denison IA: 3.6 TCR = 110% of Meats fresh, chilled or frozen (except poultry and small game), produced in slaughtering plants BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Smithfield Foods Denison IA safety composite

Smithfield Foods Denison IA scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 77% 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).

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 3.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% of industry peers
DART rate: B 1.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.7

2022→2023

Smithfield Foods Denison IA injury rate improved

Smithfield Foods Denison IA's TCR fell 1.7 from 4.5 in 2022 to 2.8 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 4.5 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.41× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=4.5 · 2023=2.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311611 · Denison, IA ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade C · TCR 3.6 · 110% of ind

DART 1.5 DART
RANK #10/26
PHOTO Seaboard Triumph Foods
BOOK 2y book
INJ 85 inj
SIZE ~1,103 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Seaboard Triumph Foods (0.0 TCR gap)

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3.6
Seaboard Trium

3.6
Wholestone Far

3.6
Hillsdale

3.6
Abbyland Pork

3.6

What this shows Smithfield Foods Denison IA averages 3.6 TCR (110% of the Meats fresh, chilled or frozen (except poultry and small game), produced in slaughtering plants BLS benchmark).

Smithfield Foods Denison IA TCR series: 2022=4.5 · 2023=2.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Smithfield Foods Denison IA falls in its industry

212 Meats fresh, chilled or frozen establishments

Safer than 71% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 26 Meats fresh, chilled or frozen employers in Iowa.

Smithfield Foods Denison IA (1,103 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 297 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Smithfield Foods Denison IA has more employees than the Meats fresh, chilled or frozen (except p 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
2023	2.8	1.5	37	2	0
2022	4.5	2.7	48	11	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311611 · IA · Denison

212 Meats fresh, chilled or frozen (except poultry and small game), produced in slaughtering plants employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 29 employers in Denison, IA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Seaboard Triumph Foods	SIOUX CITY, IA	3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Wholestone Farms	FREMONT, NE	3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Hillsdale	HILLSDALE, MI	3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Abbyland Pork Pack	CURTISS, WI	3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Mercy Medical Center	CEDAR RAPIDS	1,099 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Hirschbach Motor Lines, Inc	DUBUQUE	1,110 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Interstates/Harbor	SIOUX CENTER	1,090 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Rockwell Collins - Cedar Rapids Main Plant	CEDAR RAPIDS	1,089 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Smithfield Denison	Denison	1,555 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Monogram Quality Foods LLC	Denison	337 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Crawford County Memorial Hospital	Denison	249 FTE
CITY-NEAR	WM 1732	Denison	163 FTE
NAT-TCR	Speedco 944 Ripon, CA	Oklahoma City, OK	3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	SC006	Joint Base Charleston, SC	3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Scrap Management of Kansas, Inc.	Park City, KS	3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Habitat for Humanity of Omaha	Omaha, NE	3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE	DB Schenker--Carlisle	Carlisle, PA	1,103 FTE
NAT-SIZE	123569-North Metro Ga P&Dc	Duluth, GA	1,103 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Wegmans Brooks Ave 1500	Gates, NY	1,103 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Nestle Prepared Frozen Foods	Gaffney, SC	1,103 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: 2023, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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