Bacon, slab and sliced, made from purchased carcasses · Illinois

Smithfield Inc.

St. Charles, IL · ~377 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Smithfield Inc. runs at 73% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Bacon, slab and sliced, made from purchased carcasses workplace, earning a grade B.

Smithfield Inc.: 2.4 TCR = 73% of Bacon, slab and sliced, made from purchased carcasses BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Smithfield Inc. safety composite

Smithfield Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 79% 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).

C

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% 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 Inc. held a steady TCR band

Smithfield Inc.'s TCR held near 0.3 from 2.9 in 2016 to 2.6 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 4.0 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.87× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.9 · 2018=1.7 · 2019=1.3 · 2020=1.3 · 2021=3.3 · 2022=4.0 · 2023=2.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311612 · St. Charles, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 73% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #11/49
  • PHOTO Carl Buddig & Compan…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 79 inj
  • SIZE ~377 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Carl Buddig & Company-Montgomery (0.0 TCR gap)

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Smithfield Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Smithfield Inc. averages 2.4 TCR (73% of the Bacon, slab and sliced, made from purchased carcasses BLS benchmark).

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

Smithfield Inc. TCR series: 2016=2.9 · 2018=1.7 · 2019=1.3 · 2020=1.3 · 2021=3.3 · 2022=4 · 2023=2.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Smithfield Inc. falls in its industry

613 Bacon, slab and sliced, made f establishments

Safer than 79% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 49 Bacon, slab and sliced, made f employers in Illinois.

Smithfield Inc. (377 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Smithfield Inc.
Smithfield Inc. (377 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Smithfield Inc. has more employees than the Bacon, slab and sliced, made from purcha 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
2023 2.6 2.1 16 0 0
2022 4.0 3.5 22 3 0
2021 3.3 3.1 16 0 0
2020 1.3 1.0 5 0 0
2019 1.3 1.0 5 0 0
2018 1.7 1.7 6 0 0
2016 2.9 2.3 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · IL · St. Charles

613 Bacon, slab and sliced, made from purchased carcasses employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 87 employers in St. Charles, IL · 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 Carl Buddig & Company-Montgomery 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kraft Heinz Columbia 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Branding Iron Holdings 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Plumrose USA, Inc. CB1 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pregis -Corporate 377 FTE
STATE-SIZE Warrenville - Homebased 377 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eby-Brown Montgomery 377 FTE
STATE-SIZE MICHAELS DISTRIBUTION CENTER #9 - NEW LENOX 377 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rukel Management, LLC. 607 FTE
CITY-NEAR Omron Automotive Electronics, Inc. (OEDC) 572 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nidec Mobility of America Corporation 454 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nidec Mobility America Corporation 439 FTE
NAT-TCR Albertville Primary School 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Boston 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Northgate Care Center 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #5326 Millville, NJ 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Connell Wa 377 FTE
NAT-SIZE Blumenthal Performing Arts 377 FTE
NAT-SIZE Guidewire Springfield 377 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hilton Universal/ Los Angeles 377 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.