Processed meats manufacturing · Iowa

Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp

Sioux City, IA · ~691 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp runs at 35% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Processed meats manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp: 1.2 TCR = 35% of Processed meats manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp safety composite

Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 95% 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).

B

80/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 95% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.2

2023→2024

Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp injury rate improved

Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp's TCR fell 1.2 from 1.8 in 2023 to 0.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 1.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.44× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=1.8 · 2024=0.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311612 · Sioux City, IA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.2 · 35% of ind

  • DART 0.5 DART
  • RANK #3/32
  • PHOTO K2D dba Colorado Pre…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 23 inj
  • SIZE ~691 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: K2D dba Colorado Premium (0.0 TCR gap)

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Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp averages 1.2 TCR (35% 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 Packaged Meats Corp TCR series: 2023=1.8 · 2024=0.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp falls in its industry

613 Processed meats manufacturing establishments

Safer than 95% 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 #3 safest of 32 Processed meats manufacturing employers in Iowa.

Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp (691 employees, TCR 1.2) 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 Packaged Meats Corp
Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp (691 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp 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
2024 0.6 0.5 12 0 0
2023 1.8 1.8 11 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · IA · Sioux City

613 Processed meats manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 259 employers in Sioux 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 K2D dba Colorado Premium 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Papillion Foods LLC 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR KraftHeinz Kirksville Plant 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Carl Buddig & Company-16615 Vincennes Drive 1.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE ASP Offenders 692 FTE
STATE-SIZE National Carwash Solutions 698 FTE
STATE-SIZE CURRIES 683 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6009 679 FTE
CITY-NEAR Seaboard Triumph Foods 2,375 FTE
CITY-NEAR SeaboardTriumph Foods 1,896 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Luke's Regional Medical Center 1,201 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smithfield Sioux city 651 FTE
NAT-TCR STR0371 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Vespoli USA Inc. 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Ronzani Inc dba Ronparco 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR South Town Painting, Inc. 1.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Treasure Bay Casino 691 FTE
NAT-SIZE Coora - Aurora Hub 691 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding 691 FTE
NAT-SIZE Headquarters, CA 691 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. 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.