Bacon, slab and sliced, made from purchased carcasses · Iowa

Smithfield Sioux Center

Sioux Center, IA · ~456 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Smithfield Sioux Center runs at 63% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Bacon, slab and sliced, made from purchased carcasses workplace, earning a grade B.

Smithfield Sioux Center: 2.1 TCR = 63% of Bacon, slab and sliced, made from purchased carcasses BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Smithfield Sioux Center safety composite

Smithfield Sioux Center scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 86% 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 2.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Smithfield Sioux Center: 1.5 → 2.7 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 2.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.5× in 2018

Smithfield Sioux Center's TCR rose 1.2 from 1.5 in 2016 to 2.7 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade B · TCR 2.1 · 63% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #11/32
  • PHOTO Kansas City Steak Co…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~456 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kansas City Steak Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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Smithfield Sioux Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Smithfield Sioux Center averages 2.1 TCR (63% of the Bacon, slab and sliced, made from purchased carcasses BLS benchmark).

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

Smithfield Sioux Center TCR series: 2016=1.5 · 2018=2.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Smithfield Sioux Center falls in its industry

613 Bacon, slab and sliced, made f establishments

Safer than 86% 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 #11 safest of 32 Bacon, slab and sliced, made f employers in Iowa.

Smithfield Sioux Center (456 employees, TCR 2.1) 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 Sioux Center
Smithfield Sioux Center (456 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Smithfield Sioux Center has more employees than the Bacon, slab and sliced, made from purcha 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
2018 2.7 1.0 13 0 0
2016 1.5 0.7 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · IA · Sioux Center

613 Bacon, slab and sliced, made from purchased carcasses employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 32 employers in Sioux Center, 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 Kansas City Steak Company 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Smithfield - Middlesboro Packaged 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Eddy Foods 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Butterball LLC- Raeford, NC 2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE City Hall Annex 455 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Dubuque - Water Department 455 FTE
STATE-SIZE Airport 455 FTE
STATE-SIZE Iowa Correctional Institution for Women 457 FTE
CITY-NEAR Interstates/Harbor 1,090 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smithfield Foods - Sioux Center, IA 454 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smithfield Packaged Meats-LLC 453 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pella Corporation Sioux Center 381 FTE
NAT-TCR Marietta Corporation-Central Ave Properties Inc. 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR IHE dba Interim Healthcare of West Central FL 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Sonoma Cove 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Berry Plastics 2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sandoz Broomfield 456 FTE
NAT-SIZE Market Basket #6 456 FTE
NAT-SIZE NYCMNYVQ 456 FTE
NAT-SIZE PALMETTO 456 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: 2018, 2016. 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.