Cured meats (e.g., brined, dried, and salted) made from purchased carcasses · Indiana

Smithfield Foods - Peru

Name: Smithfield Foods - Peru Workplace Safety Data
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Peru, IN · ~700 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 2.2
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Smithfield Foods - Peru runs at 66% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Cured meats (e.g., brined, dried, and salted) made from purchased carcasses workplace, earning a grade B.

Smithfield Foods - Peru: 2.2 TCR = 66% of Cured meats (e.g., brined, dried, and salted) made from purchased carcasses BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Smithfield Foods - Peru safety composite

Smithfield Foods - Peru scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 83% 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).

72/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 2.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% of industry peers
DART rate: B 1.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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%).

Smithfield Foods - Peru held a steady TCR band

Smithfield Foods - Peru's TCR held near 0.1 from 2.1 in 2022 to 2.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 2.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.46× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=2.1 · 2023=2.4 · 2024=2.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311612 · Peru, IN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.2 · 66% of ind

DART 1.0 DART
RANK #3/11
PHOTO Osceola Food, LLC.
BOOK 3y book
INJ 40 inj
SIZE ~700 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Osceola Food, LLC. (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Smithfield Foods - Peru averages 2.2 TCR (66% of the Cured meats (e.g., brined, dried, and salted) made from purchased carcasses BLS benchmark).

Smithfield Foods - Peru TCR series: 2022=2.1 · 2023=2.4 · 2024=2 · BLS 3.3

Where Smithfield Foods - Peru falls in its industry

613 Cured meats (e.g., brined, dri establishments

Safer than 83% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 11 Cured meats (e.g., brined, dri employers in Indiana.

Smithfield Foods - Peru (700 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Smithfield Foods - Peru has more employees than the Cured meats (e.g., brined, dried, and sa 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
2024	2.0	1.0	12
2023	2.4	0.7	14
2022	2.1	0.6	14

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · IN · Peru

613 Cured meats (e.g., brined, dried, and salted) made from purchased carcasses employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 29 employers in Peru, IN · 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	Osceola Food, LLC.	OSCEOLA, IA	2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Dan's Prize- Browerville, MN	BROWERVILLE, MN	2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Stock Yards Phoenix	PHOENIX, AZ	2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Quincy MI (Kosher)	QUINCY, MI	2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Kokomo GMCH	KOKOMO	701 FTE
STATE-SIZE	JDC	JEFFERSONVILLE	699 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Evansville Bakery	EVANSVILLE	698 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Heartland Food Products Group Plant	CARMEL	698 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Schneider Electric USA	Peru	393 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Dukes Memorial Hospital	Peru	272 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Peru IN Locomotive Components	Peru	143 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Dean Baldwin Painting - Peru, Indiana	Peru	112 FTE
NAT-TCR	LANXESS Corporation Bushy Park	Goose Creek, SC	2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	ACT	Topton, PA	2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Sabert Corporation 1401 Warehouse	Chicago, IL	2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	RDD Jackson	Jackson, WI	2.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Elkhorn Area School District	Elkhorn, WI	700 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Amazon.com Services LLC - BFI3	Dupont, WA	700 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Putnam Hospital Center	Carmel Hamlet, NY	700 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Martco, L.L.C. (Chopin)	Chopin, LA	700 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.

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