Animal fats (except poultry and small game) produced in slaughtering plants · Kansas

Smithfield

Wichita, KS · ~507 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Smithfield runs at 82% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Animal fats (except poultry and small game) produced in slaughtering plants workplace, earning a grade C.

Smithfield: 2.7 TCR = 82% of Animal fats (except poultry and small game) produced in slaughtering plants BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Smithfield safety composite

Smithfield scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 83% 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).

C

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% 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

−1.7

2022→2024

Smithfield injury rate improved

Smithfield's TCR fell 1.7 from 4.0 in 2022 to 2.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 4.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.7× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=4.0 · 2023=1.9 · 2024=2.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311611 · Wichita, KS AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.7 · 82% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #4/12
  • PHOTO Sioux City Fabricati…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 50 inj
  • SIZE ~507 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sioux City Fabrication Plant (0.1 TCR gap)

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Smithfield in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Smithfield averages 2.7 TCR (82% of the Animal fats (except poultry and small game) produced in slaughtering plants BLS benchmark).

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

Smithfield TCR series: 2022=4 · 2023=1.9 · 2024=2.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Smithfield falls in its industry

212 Animal fats (except poultry an establishments

Safer than 83% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 12 Animal fats (except poultry an employers in Kansas.

Smithfield (507 employees, TCR 2.7) 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
Smithfield (507 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 297 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Smithfield has more employees than the Animal fats (except poultry and small ga 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 2.3 1.9 17 0 0
2023 1.9 1.0 11 0 0
2022 4.0 2.5 22 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311611 · KS · Wichita

212 Animal fats (except poultry and small game) produced in slaughtering plants employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 841 employers in Wichita, KS · 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 Foods 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Quality Pork Processors Inc. 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Milan Fresh 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Gear for Sports - Commerce 506 FTE
STATE-SIZE Saint Francis Ministries-NE 508 FTE
STATE-SIZE AWG - KANSAS CITY 505 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hamm Inc LLC 510 FTE
CITY-NEAR Spirit Aerosystems 11,775 FTE
CITY-NEAR Textron Aviation - Mid Continent 4,359 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wesley Medical Center 2,657 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1855-KSWIC062 2,438 FTE
NAT-TCR Subaru Of New England 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Northland High School 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 2504 Towson 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 3517 Rio Rancho 2.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Southern Land Company, LLC 507 FTE
NAT-SIZE Coho Distributing LLC - Wilsonville 507 FTE
NAT-SIZE Translogic Corporation dba Swisslog Healthcare 507 FTE
NAT-SIZE LI Main Plant 507 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. 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.