Hams, preserved (except poultry), made from purchased carcasses · Iowa

Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp

Name: Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Mason City, IA · ~224 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 1.0
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 1
Fatality

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The verdict

Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp runs at 32% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Hams, preserved (except poultry), made from purchased carcasses workplace, earning a grade A.

Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp: 1.0 TCR = 32% of Hams, preserved (except poultry), made from purchased carcasses 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 96% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 2%), 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).

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): A 1.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 96% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% of industry peers
Fatalities: F 1

Safer than 2% 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 Packaged Meats Corp held a steady TCR band

Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp's TCR held near 0.3 from 1.2 in 2022 to 0.9 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 1.2 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.86× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=1.2 · 2023=0.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade A · TCR 1.0 · 32% of ind

DART 0.9 DART
RANK #1/32
PHOTO National Beef Case R…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 5 inj
SIZE ~224 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: National Beef Case Ready Hummels Wharf (0.0 TCR gap)

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National Beef

1.1
Kraft Heinz

1.1
This site

1
Jack Links Alp

1
Harvin Choice

1

What this shows Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp averages 1.0 TCR (32% of the Hams, preserved (except poultry), made from purchased carcasses BLS benchmark).

Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp TCR series: 2022=1.2 · 2023=0.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp falls in its industry

613 Hams, preserved (except poultr establishments

Safer than 96% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 32 Hams, preserved (except poultr employers in Iowa.

Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp (224 employees, TCR 1.0) 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 Hams, preserved (except poultry), made f 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
2023	0.9	0.9	2	0	0
2022	1.2	0.8	3	0	1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · IA · Mason City

613 Hams, preserved (except poultry), made from purchased carcasses employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 126 employers in Mason City, IA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	National Beef Case Ready Hummels Wharf	HUMMELS WHARF, PA	1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Jack Links Alpena Plant	ALPENA, SD	1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Kraft Heinz	DAVENPORT, IA	1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Harvin Choice Meats Inc	SUMTER, SC	1.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Paladin Attachments	DELHI	224 FTE
STATE-SIZE	SUNNYCREST MANOR	DUBUQUE	224 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Oak View Farms LLC	LAWLER	223 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Davenport	DAVENPORT	225 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Mercy Medical Center East Campus	Mason City	1,592 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Mercy Medical Center-Mason City-MHS-IA/NE	Mason City	1,590 FTE
CITY-NEAR	MercyOne North Iowa Medical Center	Mason City	1,556 FTE
CITY-NEAR	CURRIES	Mason City	683 FTE
NAT-TCR	Gardner Cold Storage	Pittsville, WI	1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	Price Honda	Mcminnville, OR	1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	Murphy Road Recycling - Stratford	Stratford, CT	1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	Carlinville Middle School	Carlinville, IL	1.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE	AFCO Alexandria	Alexandria, LA	224 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Climate Express Inc.	Union, MO	224 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Ormco Corporation	Pomona, CA	224 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Joy Global Underground Mining, LLC - Duffield	Duffield, VA	224 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: 2023, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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