Pork carcasses, half carcasses, and primal and sub-primal cuts produced in slaughtering plants · Nebraska

Smithfield

Crete, NE · ~2,156 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Smithfield runs at 130% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Pork carcasses, half carcasses, and primal and sub-primal cuts produced in slaughtering plants workplace, earning a grade D.

Smithfield: 4.3 TCR = 130% of Pork carcasses, half carcasses, and primal and sub-primal cuts 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 60% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 38%), 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).

D

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% 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%).

Smithfield held a steady TCR band

Smithfield's TCR held near 0.2 from 4.7 in 2016 to 4.5 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 4.7 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.86× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.7 · 2017=3.7 · 2018=4.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311611 · Crete, NE ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade D · TCR 4.3 · 130% of ind

  • DART 3.7 DART
  • RANK #7/18
  • PHOTO Abbyland Foods, Inc
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 197 inj
  • SIZE ~2,156 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Abbyland Foods, Inc (0.0 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 4.3 TCR (130% of the Pork carcasses, half carcasses, and primal and sub-primal cuts 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: 2016=4.7 · 2017=3.7 · 2018=4.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Smithfield falls in its industry

212 Pork carcasses, half carcasses establishments

Safer than 60% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Nebraska alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 18 Pork carcasses, half carcasses employers in Nebraska.

Smithfield (2,156 employees, TCR 4.3) 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 (2,156 employees, TCR 4.3) 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 Pork carcasses, half carcasses, and prim 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
2018 4.5 3.7 62 37 0
2017 3.7 3.5 55 29 0
2016 4.7 4.3 80 33 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311611 · NE · Crete

212 Pork carcasses, half carcasses, and primal and sub-primal cuts produced in slaughtering plants employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 3,594 rated employers in Nebraska with headcount on file · 16 employers in Crete, NE · 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 Abbyland Foods, Inc 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Grinds - Columbia SC 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR H&B Packing Co. Inc 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hatfield 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Primay Beef - Schuyler Location 2,222 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nebraska Furniture Mart INC-Omaha 2,089 FTE
STATE-SIZE Primary Beef - Schuyler NE 2,239 FTE
STATE-SIZE FACTS Education Corporation 1,986 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smithfield Foods 1,775 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nestle Purina Petcare 533 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4322 172 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 4322 160 FTE
NAT-TCR Town of Chapel Hill - Public Works 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Houston Airport 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Armortech Windows and Doors Clearwater 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Tulsa Eastgate 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lake County Government 2,157 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mount Sinai Hospital 2,157 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gaylor Electric, inc. 2,154 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - AGS1 2,154 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.