Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing · Iowa

Smithfield Pet

Orange City, IA · ~194 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Smithfield Pet runs at 102% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Smithfield Pet: 4.0 TCR = 102% of Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Smithfield Pet safety composite

Smithfield Pet scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 35%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% 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

−2.0

2022→2024

Smithfield Pet injury rate improved

Smithfield Pet's TCR fell 2.0 from 5.9 in 2022 to 3.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 5.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.66× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=5.9 · 2023=2.0 · 2024=3.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311111 · Orange City, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 4.0 · 102% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #6/10
  • PHOTO Ralco Nutrition, Inc.
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 29 inj
  • SIZE ~194 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ralco Nutrition, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Smithfield Pet in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Smithfield Pet averages 4.0 TCR (102% of the Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Smithfield Pet TCR series: 2022=5.9 · 2023=2 · 2024=3.9 · BLS 3.9

Where Smithfield Pet falls in its industry

302 Pet food, dog and cat, manufac establishments

Safer than 42% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 10 Pet food, dog and cat, manufac employers in Iowa.

Smithfield Pet (194 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 103 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 0200400600 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Smithfield Pet
Smithfield Pet (194 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 103 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Smithfield Pet has more employees than the Pet food, dog and cat, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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 3.9 2.6 9 0 0
2023 2.0 0.8 5 0 0
2022 5.9 2.0 15 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311111 · IA · Orange City

302 Pet food, dog and cat, 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 Ralco Nutrition, Inc. 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR SC Pet Food Solutions 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Southern Tier Pet Nutrition 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sun River Services 3.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cargill CSST 194 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nor-Am Cold Storage ProV 194 FTE
STATE-SIZE DuPont Pioneer Algona ALG1 195 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cedar Falls Utilities 195 FTE
CITY-NEAR SPP - Orange City 492 FTE
CITY-NEAR Orange City Area Health System 367 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smithfield Orange City (PPH) Fresh 184 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sekisui Aerospace - Orange City Operations 171 FTE
NAT-TCR Prairie AquaTech Manufacturing, LLC dba Houdek Manufacturing 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Long Beach - MP 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Evanston 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Nutrilite Spaulding Plant 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Abilene 194 FTE
NAT-SIZE FedEx Supply Chain Wegman PA 194 FTE
NAT-SIZE Forest Lake Mn - 3128 194 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hammond in - 3271 194 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, 2022. 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.