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

Smithfield Foods, Inc. - Vernon, CA

Vernon, CA · ~1,633 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Smithfield Foods, Inc. - Vernon, CA runs at 124% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Meats fresh, chilled or frozen (except poultry and small game), produced in slaughtering plants workplace, earning a grade D.

Smithfield Foods, Inc. - Vernon, CA: 4.1 TCR = 124% 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, Inc. - Vernon, CA safety composite

Smithfield Foods, Inc. - Vernon, CA scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 63% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 29%), 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).

D

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Smithfield Foods, Inc. - Vernon, CA: 2.7 → 5.5 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 5.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.16× in 2019

Smithfield Foods, Inc. - Vernon, CA's TCR rose 2.8 from 2.7 in 2018 to 5.5 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 1.16× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311611 · Vernon, CA ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade D · TCR 4.1 · 124% of ind

  • DART 4.8 DART
  • RANK #4/14
  • PHOTO Hyrum
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 142 inj
  • SIZE ~1,633 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hyrum (0.0 TCR gap)

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Smithfield Foods, Inc. - Vernon, CA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Smithfield Foods, Inc. - Vernon, CA averages 4.1 TCR (124% of the Meats fresh, chilled or frozen (except poultry and small game), produced in slaughtering plants BLS benchmark).

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

Smithfield Foods, Inc. - Vernon, CA TCR series: 2018=2.7 · 2019=5.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Smithfield Foods, Inc. - Vernon, CA falls in its industry

212 Meats fresh, chilled or frozen establishments

Safer than 63% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 14 Meats fresh, chilled or frozen employers in California.

Smithfield Foods, Inc. - Vernon, CA (1,633 employees, TCR 4.1) 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 Smithfield Foods, Inc. - Vernon, CA
Smithfield Foods, Inc. - Vernon, CA (1,633 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 297 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Smithfield Foods, Inc. - Vernon, CA 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
2019 5.5 4.8 101 0 0
2018 2.7 2.4 41 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311611 · CA · Vernon

212 Meats fresh, chilled or frozen (except poultry and small game), produced in slaughtering plants employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 146 employers in Vernon, 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 Hyrum 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Perry Way Foods, LLC 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Green Bay Dressed Beef, LLC Acme Plant 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR FPL Food Main Plant 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE DCS-Americas - LA Metro Region 1,634 FTE
STATE-SIZE 0206-02621351 1,632 FTE
STATE-SIZE 02821351 VALLEJO HOSPITAL TOWER 1,635 FTE
STATE-SIZE 02822301 MODESTO MEDICAL CENTER 1,635 FTE
CITY-NEAR GRANDE VISTA (CAGVS) 1,333 FTE
CITY-NEAR CAGVS - GRANDE VISTA 1,215 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smithfield Foods - Vernon 984 FTE
CITY-NEAR J&J SNACK FOODS CORPORATION 672 FTE
NAT-TCR Victory Packaging Seattle 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Bio-Blood Components - Hammond, IN 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR GLC Richmond 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR O'Neill Highway #135 4.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Spartanburg County 1,633 FTE
NAT-SIZE Clinic-Temple Region 1,633 FTE
NAT-SIZE Comm HVAC NA and EMEA : MFG-La Crosse, WI-USA 1,634 FTE
NAT-SIZE St Davids South Austin Hospital 1,632 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.