Cooked meats made from purchased carcasses · Iowa

Smithfield Sioux city

Sioux City, IA · ~651 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Smithfield Sioux city runs at 148% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cooked meats made from purchased carcasses workplace, earning a grade D.

Smithfield Sioux city: 4.9 TCR = 148% of Cooked meats made from purchased carcasses BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Smithfield Sioux city safety composite

Smithfield Sioux city scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 27%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% 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

−0.8

2016→2018

Smithfield Sioux city injury rate improved

Smithfield Sioux city's TCR fell 0.8 from 5.3 in 2016 to 4.5 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 5.3 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.9× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.3 · 2018=4.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311612 · Sioux City, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.9 · 148% of ind

  • DART 4.4 DART
  • RANK #26/32
  • PHOTO Omaha Steaks - 96th
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 65 inj
  • SIZE ~651 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Omaha Steaks - 96th (0.0 TCR gap)

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Smithfield Sioux city in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Smithfield Sioux city averages 4.9 TCR (148% of the Cooked meats 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 city TCR series: 2016=5.3 · 2018=4.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Smithfield Sioux city falls in its industry

613 Cooked meats made from purchas establishments

Safer than 45% 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 #26 safest of 32 Cooked meats made from purchas employers in Iowa.

Smithfield Sioux city (651 employees, TCR 4.9) 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 city
Smithfield Sioux city (651 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Smithfield Sioux city has more employees than the Cooked meats made from purchased carcass median and a higher 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 4.5 4.4 26 7 0
2016 5.3 4.7 39 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · IA · Sioux City

613 Cooked meats made from purchased carcasses employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 259 employers in Sioux 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 Omaha Steaks - 96th 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Volpi Foods 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR CTI Foods 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Deerfield Fresh Kitchen 4.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Martin Bros Distribution Co., Inc. 652 FTE
STATE-SIZE Storm Lake Turkey Plant 649 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pella Corporation - Carroll Operations 653 FTE
STATE-SIZE 182414-DES MOINES IA P&DC 654 FTE
CITY-NEAR Seaboard Triumph Foods 2,375 FTE
CITY-NEAR SeaboardTriumph Foods 1,896 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Luke's Regional Medical Center 1,201 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp 691 FTE
NAT-TCR Gold Medal Products Co. Chicago 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR KS Energy Services (Madison) 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR The Nutrition Group 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR East Central Loading -Est 4.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Our Lady of Peace 651 FTE
NAT-SIZE PathGroup 658 Grassmere 651 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ranger Construction-Field Operations 651 FTE
NAT-SIZE Power Solutions 651 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.