Processed meats manufacturing · Nebraska

Smithfield Foods Inc.

Lincoln, NE · ~484 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Smithfield Foods Inc. runs at 72% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Processed meats manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Smithfield Foods Inc.: 2.4 TCR = 72% of Processed meats manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Smithfield Foods Inc. safety composite

Smithfield Foods Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 80% 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

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% 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 Inc.: 1.4 → 2.8 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 2.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.75× in 2024

Smithfield Foods Inc.'s TCR rose 1.4 from 1.4 in 2022 to 2.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 2.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.75× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311612 · Lincoln, NE AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 72% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #5/29
  • PHOTO Boars Head Holland
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 29 inj
  • SIZE ~484 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Boars Head Holland (0.0 TCR gap)

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Smithfield Foods Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Smithfield Foods Inc. averages 2.4 TCR (72% of the Processed meats manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Smithfield Foods Inc. TCR series: 2022=1.4 · 2023=2.9 · 2024=2.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Smithfield Foods Inc. falls in its industry

613 Processed meats manufacturing establishments

Safer than 80% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Nebraska alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 29 Processed meats manufacturing employers in Nebraska.

Smithfield Foods Inc. (484 employees, TCR 2.4) 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 Inc.
Smithfield Foods Inc. (484 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Smithfield Foods Inc. has more employees than the Processed meats manufacturing 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
2024 2.8 1.8 11 0 0
2023 2.9 2.2 12 1 0
2022 1.4 0.6 6 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · NE · Lincoln

613 Processed meats manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 3,594 rated employers in Nebraska with headcount on file · 496 employers in Lincoln, NE · 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 Boars Head Holland 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Frontenc 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dan's Prize Browerville 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Branding Iron Holdings 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lincoln Terminal-DOT 483 FTE
STATE-SIZE AWG, Norfolk 493 FTE
STATE-SIZE OneStaff Medical 493 FTE
STATE-SIZE Transport Solutions Americas : MFG-Hastings, NE-USA 472 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nelnet Servicing LLC 2,850 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nelnet - Lincoln HQ 2,491 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bryan East Campus 2,358 FTE
CITY-NEAR FACTS Education Corporation 1,986 FTE
NAT-TCR TMC Acquisition, LLC dba Tailor Made Compounding 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Kwangjin America, Inc. 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Regency Janitorial Services, Inc. 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Dutch American Foods, Inc. Beecher 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Behavioral Health Works 484 FTE
NAT-SIZE DOT West Farm Transp Depot 484 FTE
NAT-SIZE USA Thomasville NC 484 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sysco West Coast Florida 484 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, 2023, 2022. 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.