Processed meats manufacturing · Minnesota

Smithfield Foods

St. James, MN · ~586 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Smithfield Foods runs at 92% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Processed meats manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Smithfield Foods: 3.0 TCR = 92% of Processed meats manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Smithfield Foods safety composite

Smithfield Foods scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 69% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 41%), 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

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% 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: 1.8 → 4.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.08× in 2024

Smithfield Foods's TCR rose 2.3 from 1.8 in 2020 to 4.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.08× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311612 · St. James, MN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.0 · 92% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK #10/19
  • PHOTO Smithfield Foods
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 69 inj
  • SIZE ~586 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Smithfield Foods (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 3.0 TCR (92% 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 TCR series: 2020=1.8 · 2021=3.8 · 2022=2.5 · 2024=4.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Smithfield Foods falls in its industry

613 Processed meats manufacturing establishments

Safer than 69% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 19 Processed meats manufacturing employers in Minnesota.

Smithfield Foods (586 employees, TCR 3.0) 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 (586 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Smithfield Foods 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 4.1 3.3 26 4 0
2022 2.5 1.5 18 0 0
2021 3.8 2.3 16 7 0
2020 1.8 1.8 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · MN · St. James

613 Processed meats manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 16 employers in St. James, MN · 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 Smithfield Foods 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fresh Sausage Specialists 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Amylu Foods LLC, 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Old Trapper Smoked Products, Inc 3.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Benchmark Electronics Minnesota Division Rochester 586 FTE
STATE-SIZE US Foods Minnesota 586 FTE
STATE-SIZE Land O'Lakes, Inc. Shoreview 588 FTE
STATE-SIZE Monticello High School 588 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smithfield St. James, MN 536 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. James High School 79 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of St. James 75 FTE
CITY-NEAR Watonwan County Courthouse & Resource Center 73 FTE
NAT-TCR Miami 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR HUSCO International Maquoketa 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Jerry's Trenching Service, Inc. 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Etna Supply - Wixom 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE CA-Innovation Village 3 586 FTE
NAT-SIZE Transco Lines, Inc 586 FTE
NAT-SIZE FERRERO 586 FTE
NAT-SIZE Headquarters 586 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, 2022, 2021, 2020. 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.