Sausage and similar cased products made from purchased carcasses · Pennsylvania

Smithfield Foods

Name: Smithfield Foods Workplace Safety Data
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Arnold, PA · ~178 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 4.5
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Smithfield Foods runs at 137% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Sausage and similar cased products made from purchased carcasses workplace, earning a grade D.

Smithfield Foods: 4.5 TCR = 137% of Sausage and similar cased products made from purchased carcasses BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Smithfield Foods safety composite

Smithfield Foods scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 67% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 48%), 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).

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 4.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers
DART rate: C 1.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% 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: 4.8 → 6.7 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 6.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.33× in 2021

Smithfield Foods's TCR rose 1.9 from 4.8 in 2016 to 6.7 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311612 · Arnold, PA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.5 · 137% of ind

DART 1.5 DART
RANK #14/37
PHOTO Prime Meats Duluth
BOOK 4y book
INJ 29 inj
SIZE ~178 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Prime Meats Duluth (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Smithfield Foods averages 4.5 TCR (137% of the Sausage and similar cased products made from purchased carcasses BLS benchmark).

Smithfield Foods TCR series: 2016=4.8 · 2018=1.7 · 2019=4.8 · 2021=6.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Smithfield Foods falls in its industry

613 Sausage and similar cased prod establishments

Safer than 48% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 37 Sausage and similar cased prod employers in Pennsylvania.

Smithfield Foods (178 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Smithfield Foods has fewer employees than the Sausage and similar cased products made median and a higher 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
2021	6.7	1.5	9
2019	4.8	1.8	8
2018	1.7	0.6	3
2016	4.8	4.3	9

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · PA · Arnold

613 Sausage and similar cased products made from purchased carcasses employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 3 employers in Arnold, PA · 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	Prime Meats Duluth	DULUTH, GA	4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	814 Americas	ELIZABETH, NJ	4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	OSI Industries, LLC	CHICAGO, IL	4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	PIPESTONE SWIFT PORK COMPANY	PIPESTONE, MN	4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE	PurePenn d/b/a Trulieve	MCKEESPORT	178 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Signature Building Systems	MOOSIC	178 FTE
STATE-SIZE	BrandSafway Industries LLC - Shell Maintenance - Monaca	MONACA	178 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Versatex Building Products	ALIQUIPPA	178 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Arnold	Arnold	165 FTE
CITY-NEAR	PSSI - 0880 Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp. - Arnold	Arnold	21 FTE
NAT-TCR	Alpha Packaging, CLE	Cleveland, OH	4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	General Mills (Buffalo Cereal)	Buffalo, NY	4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Workforce Development 70th	Shreveport, LA	4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	GRP	Greensboro, NC	4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Dalco Enterprises, Inc. - Whole Company	New Brighton, MN	178 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Continental Structural Plastics of Louisiana	Sarepta, LA	178 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Milbank Manufacturing Concordia	Concordia, MO	178 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Dayton Molded Urethanes LLC / Creative Foam Corporation	Dayton, OH	178 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: 2021, 2019, 2018, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.