Medicinal chemicals, uncompounded, manufacturing · Iowa

Smithfield Orange City (PPH) Fresh

Orange City, IA · ~184 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Smithfield Orange City (PPH) Fresh runs at 46% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Medicinal chemicals, uncompounded, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Smithfield Orange City (PPH) Fresh: 1.5 TCR = 46% of Medicinal chemicals, uncompounded, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Smithfield Orange City (PPH) Fresh safety composite

Smithfield Orange City (PPH) Fresh scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 68% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 26%), 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

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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 Orange City (PPH) Fresh: 0.5 → 2.6 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 2.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.7× in 2019

Smithfield Orange City (PPH) Fresh's TCR rose 2.1 from 0.5 in 2018 to 2.6 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 1.7× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325411 · Orange City, IA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.5 · 46% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK P68
  • PHOTO Latham
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~184 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Latham (0.0 TCR gap)

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Smithfield Orange City (PPH) Fresh in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Smithfield Orange City (PPH) Fresh averages 1.5 TCR (46% of the Medicinal chemicals, uncompounded, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Smithfield Orange City (PPH) Fresh TCR series: 2018=0.5 · 2019=2.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Smithfield Orange City (PPH) Fresh falls in its industry

260 Medicinal chemicals, uncompoun establishments

Safer than 68% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Smithfield Orange City (PPH) Fresh (184 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 120 employees and a TCR of 2.4 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 02004006008001,000 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Smithfield Orange City (PPH) Fresh
Smithfield Orange City (PPH) Fresh (184 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 120 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Smithfield Orange City (PPH) Fresh has more employees than the Medicinal chemicals, uncompounded, manuf median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.4. 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 2.6 2.6 4 1 0
2018 0.5 0.5 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325411 · IA · Orange City

260 Medicinal chemicals, uncompounded, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 23 employers in Orange 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 Latham 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nutramax MD 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pisgah Labs, Inc 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Atrium RIDC 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE IOWA PLAINS SIGNING INC 184 FTE
STATE-SIZE 0069 - Valley West 184 FTE
STATE-SIZE FBG Service Corporation Cedar Rapids 184 FTE
STATE-SIZE FLOYD COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER 184 FTE
CITY-NEAR SPP - Orange City 492 FTE
CITY-NEAR Orange City Area Health System 367 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smithfield Pet 194 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sekisui Aerospace - Orange City Operations 171 FTE
NAT-TCR SmartWatt Energy, Inc. 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Regate Technology, Inc 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Global Compressor 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Innocor Foam Technologies - ACP, Inc. - High Point 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Porta Cusd #202 184 FTE
NAT-SIZE Keystone Plant 7 184 FTE
NAT-SIZE C.L. Rieckhoff, Co. 184 FTE
NAT-SIZE MeadowBrook of Granby 184 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. 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.