Processed meats manufacturing · Iowa

Smithfield Mason City

Mason City, IA · ~246 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Smithfield Mason City runs at 103% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Processed meats manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Smithfield Mason City: 3.4 TCR = 103% of Processed meats manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Smithfield Mason City safety composite

Smithfield Mason City scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 63% 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

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% 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 Mason City: 2.4 → 3.3 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 4.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.65× in 2019

Smithfield Mason City's TCR rose 1.0 from 2.4 in 2016 to 3.3 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 4.5 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.65× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311612 · Mason City, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.4 · 103% of ind

  • DART 2.2 DART
  • RANK #19/32
  • PHOTO Vincent Giordano Cor…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 29 inj
  • SIZE ~246 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Vincent Giordano Corporation (0.0 TCR gap)

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Smithfield Mason City in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Smithfield Mason City averages 3.4 TCR (103% of the Processed meats manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Smithfield Mason City TCR series: 2016=2.4 · 2018=4.5 · 2019=3.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Smithfield Mason City falls in its industry

613 Processed meats manufacturing establishments

Safer than 63% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #19 safest of 32 Processed meats manufacturing employers in Iowa.

Smithfield Mason City (246 employees, TCR 3.4) 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 Mason City
Smithfield Mason City (246 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Smithfield Mason City has more employees than the Processed meats manufacturing 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
2019 3.3 2.2 9 0 0
2018 4.5 3.5 13 0 0
2016 2.4 1.7 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · IA · Mason City

613 Processed meats manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 126 employers in Mason City, IA · 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 Vincent Giordano Corporation 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stock Yards Las Vegas (Outwest) 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Zwanenberg Food Group USA 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ralph's Packing Company 3.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Clinton Folding 246 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bemis North America - Centerville 246 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rockwell Collins (Bellevue) 246 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sysco Iowa-039 246 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Medical Center East Campus 1,592 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Medical Center-Mason City-MHS-IA/NE 1,590 FTE
CITY-NEAR MercyOne North Iowa Medical Center 1,556 FTE
CITY-NEAR CURRIES 683 FTE
NAT-TCR 149 - Millville 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-Swy 0005 1614 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR US MD Baltimore Plant 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Harrison Burrowes Bridge Constructors, Inc. 3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Iad 1059 246 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vernay Manufacturing Griffin Georgia 246 FTE
NAT-SIZE Meijer Store 242 246 FTE
NAT-SIZE Saint Joseph Mount Sterling 246 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: 2019, 2018, 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.