Meats (except poultry), cured or smoked, made from purchased carcasses · Massachusetts

Smithfield Foods Springfield MA

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Springfield, MA · ~196 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 2.9
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Smithfield Foods Springfield MA runs at 89% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Meats (except poultry), cured or smoked, made from purchased carcasses workplace, earning a grade C.

Smithfield Foods Springfield MA: 2.9 TCR = 89% of Meats (except poultry), cured or smoked, made from purchased carcasses BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Smithfield Foods Springfield MA safety composite

Smithfield Foods Springfield MA scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 39%), 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).

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 2.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers
DART rate: D 3.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% 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 Springfield MA: 2.5 → 3.3 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 3.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.13× in 2020

Smithfield Foods Springfield MA's TCR rose 0.8 from 2.5 in 2016 to 3.3 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.13× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311612 · Springfield, MA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.9 · 89% of ind

DART 3.3 DART
RANK #7/13
PHOTO Quaker Maid Meats, Inc
BOOK 2y book
INJ 10 inj
SIZE ~196 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Quaker Maid Meats, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Smithfield Foods Springfield MA averages 2.9 TCR (89% of the Meats (except poultry), cured or smoked, made from purchased carcasses BLS benchmark).

Smithfield Foods Springfield MA TCR series: 2016=2.5 · 2020=3.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Smithfield Foods Springfield MA falls in its industry

613 Meats (except poultry), cured establishments

Safer than 70% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 13 Meats (except poultry), cured employers in Massachusetts.

Smithfield Foods Springfield MA (196 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Smithfield Foods Springfield MA has fewer employees than the Meats (except poultry), cured or smoked, 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
2020	3.3	3.3	6	1	0
2016	2.5	1.7	4	2	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · MA · Springfield

613 Meats (except poultry), cured or smoked, made from purchased carcasses employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 215 employers in Springfield, MA · 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	Quaker Maid Meats, Inc	READING, PA	2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Smithfield-Grayson	GRAYSON, KY	2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Swift Prepared Foods Elkhart	ELKHART, IN	2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp	LINCOLN, NE	2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Newpro Operating LLC	WOBURN	196 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Rockland	ROCKLAND	196 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Pharmasol	SOUTH EASTON	196 FTE
STATE-SIZE	100017	QUINCY	196 FTE
CITY-NEAR	BMC - Baystate Medical Center	Springfield	8,310 FTE
CITY-NEAR	BMP - Baystate Medical Practices	Springfield	1,977 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Blue Tarp Redevelopment, LLC d/b/a MGM Springfield	Springfield	1,867 FTE
CITY-NEAR	BMF - Baystate Medical Practices	Springfield	1,746 FTE
NAT-TCR	Meijer - Westland	Westland, MI	2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	Insource Performance Solutions at Hanes Brands Inc. Cleveland	Kings Mountain, NC	2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	AAF Flanders Atlanta	Atlanta, GA	2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	HoneywellIL75	Rock Island, IL	2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Jwcf, Lp	Mcmurray, PA	196 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Lino Lakes/ Field	Lino Lakes, MN	196 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Tidelands Health Rehabilitation Hospital an Affiliate of Encompass Health	Murrells Inlet, SC	196 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Saputo Dairy Foods	Delhi, NY	196 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: 2020, 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.