Pork Processing · North Carolina

Smithfield Fresh Meats Corp

Tarheel, NC · ~4,069 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Smithfield Fresh Meats Corp runs at 25% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Pork Processing workplace, earning a grade A.

Smithfield Fresh Meats Corp: 0.8 TCR = 25% of Pork Processing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Smithfield Fresh Meats Corp safety composite

Smithfield Fresh Meats Corp scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 97% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 55%), 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).

B

85/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 97% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 93% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.6

2023→2024

Smithfield Fresh Meats Corp injury rate improved

Smithfield Fresh Meats Corp's TCR fell 0.6 from 1.1 in 2023 to 0.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 1.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.47× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=1.1 · 2024=0.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311611 · Tarheel, NC AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade A · TCR 0.8 · 25% of ind

  • DART 0.4 DART
  • RANK #2/9
  • PHOTO Smithfield
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 71 inj
  • SIZE ~4,069 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Smithfield (0.0 TCR gap)

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Smithfield Fresh Meats Corp in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Smithfield Fresh Meats Corp averages 0.8 TCR (25% of the Pork Processing BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Smithfield Fresh Meats Corp TCR series: 2023=1.1 · 2024=0.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Smithfield Fresh Meats Corp falls in its industry

212 Pork Processing establishments

Safer than 97% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 9 Pork Processing employers in North Carolina.

Smithfield Fresh Meats Corp (4,069 employees, TCR 0.8) 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Smithfield Fresh Meats Corp
Smithfield Fresh Meats Corp (4,069 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 297 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Smithfield Fresh Meats Corp has more employees than the Pork Processing 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 0.5 0.4 24 0 0
2023 1.1 0.7 47 15 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311611 · NC · Tarheel

212 Pork Processing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 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 Smithfield 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR JBS 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dewig Bros. Packing Co., Inc. 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Momence Packing 0.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE GlaxoSmithKline Field & Remote 4,001 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1004-CHS Corporate Operations 4,178 FTE
STATE-SIZE Day & Zimmermann NPS 4,182 FTE
STATE-SIZE Smithfield Fresh Meats Corp. 3,933 FTE
NAT-TCR Kahler Automation Corp 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR CFM Company 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Lake Shore Cryotronics, Inc 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Scientific Design Company 0.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kings Daughters Medical Center 4,069 FTE
NAT-SIZE Northwestern Medicine Central Dupage Hospital 4,069 FTE
NAT-SIZE Edison Plaza 4,066 FTE
NAT-SIZE General Dynamics NASSCO 4,077 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. 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.