Sausage and similar cased products made from purchased carcasses · Kansas

Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp.

Junction City, KS · ~437 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp. runs at 65% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Sausage and similar cased products made from purchased carcasses workplace, earning a grade B.

Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp.: 2.2 TCR = 65% of Sausage and similar cased products made from purchased carcasses BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp. safety composite

Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 84% 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

73/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% 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

−1.9

2016→2020

Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp. injury rate improved

Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp.'s TCR fell 1.9 from 3.2 in 2016 to 1.3 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2016 at 3.2 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.43× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.2 · 2017=1.8 · 2018=2.4 · 2020=1.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311612 · Junction City, KS AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.2 · 65% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #3/15
  • PHOTO US07 New Glarus Link…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 34 inj
  • SIZE ~437 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: US07 New Glarus Link Snacks Inc. (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 2.2 TCR (65% of the Sausage and similar cased products made from purchased carcasses 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: 2016=3.2 · 2017=1.8 · 2018=2.4 · 2020=1.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp. falls in its industry

613 Sausage and similar cased prod establishments

Safer than 84% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 15 Sausage and similar cased prod employers in Kansas.

Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp. (437 employees, TCR 2.2) 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. (437 employees, TCR 2.2) 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 Sausage and similar cased products made 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
2020 1.3 0.9 5 2 0
2018 2.4 1.0 8 4 0
2017 1.8 1.2 8 2 0
2016 3.2 2.9 13 5 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · KS · Junction City

613 Sausage and similar cased products made from purchased carcasses employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 29 employers in Junction City, KS · 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 US07 New Glarus Link Snacks Inc. 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cudahy Packaged 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lopez Foods, Inc. 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Boar's Head Provisions Co., Inc. 2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE MEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEM 436 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1855-KSWIC017 438 FTE
STATE-SIZE WICHITA KS 441 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jacam Chemicals 2013, LLC 433 FTE
CITY-NEAR Foot Locker JCSC 766 FTE
CITY-NEAR Foot Locker Corporate Services Inc. 746 FTE
CITY-NEAR Junction City Packaging 475 FTE
CITY-NEAR Geary Community Hospital - Main Facility 368 FTE
NAT-TCR Kimball Midwest Grand Prairie 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR The Mill House Hotel 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR NE Document Systems Inc. 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Town Center 2.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Columbia Electrical Contractors, Inc. (Columbia Tech) 437 FTE
NAT-SIZE Phoenix- Commercial Mountain Division 437 FTE
NAT-SIZE Greenville - 6040 Ponders Court 437 FTE
NAT-SIZE AEP DC Cook 437 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: 2020, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.