Meats fresh, chilled or frozen (except poultry and small game), produced in slaughtering plants · California

Smithfield Foods - Vernon

Name: Smithfield Foods - Vernon Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Vernon, CA · ~984 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 3.7
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 1
Fatality

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The verdict

Smithfield Foods - Vernon runs at 112% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Meats fresh, chilled or frozen (except poultry and small game), produced in slaughtering plants workplace, earning a grade C.

Smithfield Foods - Vernon: 3.7 TCR = 112% of Meats fresh, chilled or frozen (except poultry and small game), produced in slaughtering plants BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Smithfield Foods - Vernon safety composite

Smithfield Foods - Vernon scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 69% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 7%), 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).

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 3.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% of industry peers
DART rate: D 3.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% of industry peers
Fatalities: F 1

Safer than 7% 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 - Vernon: 1.6 → 5.7 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 5.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.84× in 2023

Smithfield Foods - Vernon's TCR rose 4.1 from 1.6 in 2022 to 5.7 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.84× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311611 · Vernon, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.7 · 112% of ind

DART 3.1 DART
RANK #3/14
PHOTO Xenia
BOOK 2y book
INJ 49 inj
SIZE ~984 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Xenia (0.0 TCR gap)

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3.7
Xenia

3.7
USA Pork Packe

3.7
Aurora Packing

3.7
WR Reserve

3.7

What this shows Smithfield Foods - Vernon averages 3.7 TCR (112% of the Meats fresh, chilled or frozen (except poultry and small game), produced in slaughtering plants BLS benchmark).

Smithfield Foods - Vernon TCR series: 2022=1.6 · 2023=5.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Smithfield Foods - Vernon falls in its industry

212 Meats fresh, chilled or frozen establishments

Safer than 69% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 14 Meats fresh, chilled or frozen employers in California.

Smithfield Foods - Vernon (984 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 297 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Smithfield Foods - Vernon has more employees than the Meats fresh, chilled or frozen (except p 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
2023	5.7	3.1	13	0	0
2022	1.6	0.6	36	1	1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311611 · CA · Vernon

212 Meats fresh, chilled or frozen (except poultry and small game), produced in slaughtering plants employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 146 employers in Vernon, CA · 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	Xenia	XENIA, OH	3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	USA Pork Packers, Inc.	HAZLETON, PA	3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Aurora Packing Company	NORTH AURORA, IL	3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	WR Reserve	HASTINGS, NE	3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Sutter Delta Medical Center (213-SDMC)	ANTIOCH	984 FTE
STATE-SIZE	4818-48180004-17101 VALLEY VIEW AVE-WC	CERRITOS	985 FTE
STATE-SIZE	FMIC (Corona)	CORONA	986 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Rocha Brothers Farms, LLC	MOSS LANDING	981 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Smithfield Foods, Inc. - Vernon, CA	Vernon	1,633 FTE
CITY-NEAR	GRANDE VISTA (CAGVS)	Vernon	1,333 FTE
CITY-NEAR	CAGVS - GRANDE VISTA	Vernon	1,215 FTE
CITY-NEAR	J&J SNACK FOODS CORPORATION	Vernon	672 FTE
NAT-TCR	Indiana University Health Riley Hospital for Children	Indianapolis, IN	3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Core Concepts, Inc	Franklin, MA	3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Cheyenne Terminal-DOT	Cheyenne, WY	3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	2917 Bluefield Distrib Center (Va)	Bluefield, VA	3.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE	SL Green Management LLC	New York, NY	984 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Butler Hospital	Providence, RI	984 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Autoliv Brigham City	Brigham City, UT	984 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Dodge Center	Dodge Center, MN	984 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: 2023, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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