Chili pepper or powder manufacturing · Illinois

Smithfield Foods

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Bolingbrook, IL · ~287 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 1.5
Avg TCR: 4.1
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Smithfield Foods runs at 37% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Chili pepper or powder manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Smithfield Foods: 1.5 TCR = 37% of Chili pepper or powder manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Smithfield Foods safety composite

Smithfield Foods scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 84% 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).

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 1.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% of industry peers
DART rate: C 1.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Smithfield Foods: 0.9 → 2.1 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 2.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.79× in 2019

Smithfield Foods's TCR rose 1.2 from 0.9 in 2018 to 2.1 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.79× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311942 · Bolingbrook, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.5 · 37% of ind

DART 1.2 DART
RANK #4/16
PHOTO Cargill Salt- St. Cl…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 8 inj
SIZE ~287 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cargill Salt- St. Clair (0.0 TCR gap)

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Brand Aromatic

1.6
This site

1.5
Cargill Salt-

1.5
International

1.4
Salt-White Mar

1.4

What this shows Smithfield Foods averages 1.5 TCR (37% of the Chili pepper or powder manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Smithfield Foods TCR series: 2018=0.9 · 2019=2.1 · BLS 4.1

Where Smithfield Foods falls in its industry

200 Chili pepper or powder manufac establishments

Safer than 84% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 16 Chili pepper or powder manufac employers in Illinois.

Smithfield Foods (287 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Smithfield Foods has more employees than the Chili pepper or powder manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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	2.1	1.2	7	0	0
2018	0.9	0.3	1	2	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311942 · IL · Bolingbrook

200 Chili pepper or powder manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 243 employers in Bolingbrook, IL · 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	Cargill Salt- St. Clair	ST. CLAIR, MI	1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Brand Aromatics	LAKEWOOD, NJ	1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	International Flavors & Fragrances- Carrollton	CARROLTON, TX	1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Salt-White Marsh	WHITE MARSH, MD	1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Estwing Manufacturing Company	ROCKFORD	287 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Pentair Filtration Solutions, LLC - Hanover Park	HANOVER PARK	287 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Corporate - Naperville	NAPERVILLE	287 FTE
STATE-SIZE	WM 5352	BATAVIA	287 FTE
CITY-NEAR	IL-02	Bolingbrook	4,926 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Corporate Office	Bolingbrook	1,368 FTE
CITY-NEAR	4818-48180018-300 E. CROSSROADS PKWY-WC	Bolingbrook	971 FTE
CITY-NEAR	G&W Electric Company	Bolingbrook	935 FTE
NAT-TCR	Tremco Roofing and Building Maintenance - Weatherproofing Technologies, Inc.	Beachwood, OH	1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	TN- Avaya / Ergotron	Memphis, TN	1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Market Basket #5	Lawrence, MA	1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Orange Courier Inc	Santa Ana, CA	1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Flowery Branch - 4349 Avery Drive	Flowery Branch, GA	287 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Handgards Inc.	El Paso, TX	287 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Tamaya (HR)	Santa Ana Pueblo, NM	287 FTE
NAT-SIZE	The Stow Company	Holland, MI	287 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.