Pork carcasses, half carcasses, and primal and sub-primal cuts produced in slaughtering plants · South Dakota

Smithfield Foods

Sioux Falls, SD · ~3,459 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Smithfield Foods runs at 80% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Pork carcasses, half carcasses, and primal and sub-primal cuts produced in slaughtering plants workplace, earning a grade B.

Smithfield Foods: 2.6 TCR = 80% of Pork carcasses, half carcasses, and primal and sub-primal cuts produced in slaughtering plants BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Smithfield Foods safety composite

Smithfield Foods scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 84% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 54%), 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

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% 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: 2.6 → 3.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 3.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1× in 2024

Smithfield Foods's TCR rose 0.7 from 2.6 in 2016 to 3.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311611 · Sioux Falls, SD AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade B · TCR 2.6 · 80% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #1/4
  • PHOTO Sioux City Fabricati…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 661 inj
  • SIZE ~3,459 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sioux City Fabrication Plant (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 2.6 TCR (80% of the Pork carcasses, half carcasses, and primal and sub-primal cuts 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 TCR series: 2016=2.6 · 2018=2 · 2019=2.5 · 2020=2.4 · 2021=2.5 · 2022=2.6 · 2023=3.1 · 2024=3.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Smithfield Foods falls in its industry

212 Pork carcasses, half carcasses establishments

Safer than 84% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Dakota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 4 Pork carcasses, half carcasses employers in South Dakota.

Smithfield Foods (3,459 employees, TCR 2.6) 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
Smithfield Foods (3,459 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 297 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Smithfield Foods has more employees than the Pork carcasses, half carcasses, and prim 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
2024 3.3 2.6 94 28 0
2023 3.1 2.4 90 27 0
2022 2.6 1.6 82 16 0
2021 2.5 2.0 86 14 0
2020 2.4 1.8 77 16 0
2019 2.5 1.6 87 20 0
2018 2.0 1.3 64 19 0
2016 2.6 2.1 81 24 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311611 · SD · Sioux Falls

212 Pork carcasses, half carcasses, and primal and sub-primal cuts produced in slaughtering plants employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,778 rated employers in South Dakota with headcount on file · 542 employers in Sioux Falls, SD · 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 Sioux City Fabrication Plant 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Smithfield 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR National Beef Moultrie, GA. 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Swift Pork Company 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Avera McKennan Hospital 3,312 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rapid City Hospital 2,320 FTE
STATE-SIZE SD,SIOUX FALLS - Medical Center Campus - General Medical and Surgical Hospitals 4,818 FTE
STATE-SIZE Great Western Bank 1,658 FTE
CITY-NEAR SD,Sioux Falls-Medical Center Campus-General Medical And Surgical Hospitals 6,424 FTE
CITY-NEAR SD,Sioux Falls-Business Center-Office Administrative Services 1,421 FTE
CITY-NEAR SD,SIOUX FALLS - Medical Center Campus - Offices of Physicians (except Mental Health Specialists) 1,412 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - FSD1 1,170 FTE
NAT-TCR North Kansas City Facility 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Wildish Building Co. 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Holiday Inn Express Downtown Austin 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Monical's Pizza Kankakee 2.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cactus 3,460 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mercy Health Partners - Sherman Campus 3,461 FTE
NAT-SIZE Iowa Methodist Hospital 3,456 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - HOU2 3,455 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2016. 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.