Bacon, slab and sliced, made from purchased carcasses · Missouri

Smithfield Foods

Kansas City, MO · ~332 workers · 3 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 Bacon, slab and sliced, made from purchased carcasses workplace, earning a grade C.

Smithfield Foods: 3.0 TCR = 92% of Bacon, slab and sliced, made from purchased carcasses BLS 3.3 · 3y 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 49%), 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

58/100

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 2.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.6

2022→2024

Smithfield Foods injury rate improved

Smithfield Foods's TCR fell 0.6 from 3.2 in 2022 to 2.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 3.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.83× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=3.2 · 2023=3.5 · 2024=2.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311612 · Kansas City, MO AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.0 · 92% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK #9/28
  • PHOTO Smithfield Foods
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 27 inj
  • SIZE ~332 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 Bacon, slab and sliced, made from purchased carcasses BLS benchmark).

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

Smithfield Foods TCR series: 2022=3.2 · 2023=3.5 · 2024=2.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Smithfield Foods falls in its industry

613 Bacon, slab and sliced, made f establishments

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

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Missouri alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 28 Bacon, slab and sliced, made f employers in Missouri.

Smithfield Foods (332 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 (332 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 Bacon, slab and sliced, made from purcha 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 2.5 2.5 8 0 0
2023 3.5 3.2 11 1 0
2022 3.2 3.2 8 4 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · MO · Kansas City

613 Bacon, slab and sliced, made from purchased carcasses employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,075 rated employers in Missouri with headcount on file · 1,023 employers in Kansas City, MO · 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 Independence 332 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Ritz-Carlton, St. Louis 332 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cenveo St. Louis 333 FTE
STATE-SIZE Arcosa Marine Products, Inc. Plant #1075 331 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mass Service Organization 11,859 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hallmark Cards Mass Channel 11,578 FTE
CITY-NEAR Global Merchandising Services (GMS) 9,548 FTE
CITY-NEAR Children's Mercy - Missouri 7,709 FTE
NAT-TCR Northampton Machine Co., Inc. 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Smucker Company 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR North Pointe Assisted Living of Mayodan 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Southern Haulers LLC Mobile Terminal 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lilly Concord 332 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hsl 16, LLC 332 FTE
NAT-SIZE Metalsa / Magnet Drive Plant 2 332 FTE
NAT-SIZE Haemonetics-Clinton 332 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.