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
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.
- A
- Excellent Safety Record
- 1.2
- avg TCR · per 100 workers
- 3.3
- industry benchmark (BLS)
- 23
- recordable injuries tracked
Grade compares Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp's OSHA Total Case Rate of 1.2 to the Processed meats manufacturing BLS benchmark of 3.3 (35% of benchmark) across 2 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). <a href="/methodology">See methodology</a> for reporting-limitation caveats.
Injury rate over time
Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 3.3 industry benchmark.
Where Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp falls in its industry
631 Processed meats manufacturing establishmentsSafer than 93% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.
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.
Trend analysis for Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp
Between 2023 and 2024, Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp's Total Case Rate improved from 1.8 to 0.6 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 69% decrease across 1 year of OSHA reporting.
The safest year on record was 2024, at a TCR of 0.6, while 2023 saw the highest rate, at 1.8, a spread of 1.2 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a wide swing relative to the establishment's overall rate, worth checking the year-by-year table below for whether a single severe year is driving the average, rather than a sustained trend.
Summed across those 2 reporting years, Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp recorded 23 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 2-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.
Verify This Employer with OSHA
The 23 injuries shown on this page for Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp are sourced from its own 2 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.
Verify on OSHA Establishment SearchSource: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 311612 - Processed meats manufacturing.
DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2024)
What is the DART rate formula?
DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.
11 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 4,348,167 hours worked = 0.51 DART
Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping
Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State
| Benchmark | TCR | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp (this establishment) | 1.16 | OSHA ITA Form 300A, 2-year avg |
| Meats, fresh or chilled (except poultry and small game), frozen, made from purchased carcasses industry avg | 3.30 | BLS IIF, NAICS 311612 |
| Iowa state avg (all industries) | 5.33 | OSHA ITA, state-level rollup |
Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program
Reportable Incident Timeline
Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.
- 2024: 12 reportable incidents · 12 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2023: 11 reportable incidents · 11 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records
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 |
What this grade means for you
Use this grade as a relative read on Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp's reported OSHA injury record, strong versus its Processed meats manufacturing peers, but not a guarantee about any single site today.
- At 35% of the Processed meats manufacturing benchmark, Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp reports fewer injuries than typical peers, still worth asking how safety is managed day to day. Know your rights
- Judge this record against the wider Processed meats manufacturing sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
- Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another
Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.
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Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.