Meat products (e.g., hot dogs, luncheon meats, sausages) made from a combination of poultry and other meats · Minnesota

Smithfield St. James, MN

St. James, MN · ~536 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Smithfield St. James, MN runs at 55% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Meat products (e.g., hot dogs, luncheon meats, sausages) made from a combination of poultry and other meats workplace, earning a grade B.

Smithfield St. James, MN: 1.8 TCR = 55% of Meat products (e.g., hot dogs, luncheon meats, sausages) made from a combination of poultry and other meats BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Smithfield St. James, MN safety composite

Smithfield St. James, MN scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 48%), 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

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 54% 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 St. James, MN: 1.5 → 2.1 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 2.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.87× in 2019

Smithfield St. James, MN's TCR rose 0.6 from 1.5 in 2018 to 2.1 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.87× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311615 · St. James, MN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.8 · 55% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #2/16
  • PHOTO Lumber Bridge Proces…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~536 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lumber Bridge Processing (0.0 TCR gap)

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Smithfield St. James, MN in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Smithfield St. James, MN averages 1.8 TCR (55% of the Meat products (e.g., hot dogs, luncheon meats, sausages) made from a combination of poultry and other meats BLS benchmark).

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

Smithfield St. James, MN TCR series: 2018=1.5 · 2019=2.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Smithfield St. James, MN falls in its industry

509 Meat products (e.g., hot dogs, establishments

Safer than 81% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 16 Meat products (e.g., hot dogs, employers in Minnesota.

Smithfield St. James, MN (536 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 05001,0001,5002,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Smithfield St. James, MN
Smithfield St. James, MN (536 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Smithfield St. James, MN has fewer employees than the Meat products (e.g., hot dogs, luncheon median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2019 2.1 1.6 10 2 0
2018 1.5 1.4 7 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311615 · MN · St. James

509 Meat products (e.g., hot dogs, luncheon meats, sausages) made from a combination of poultry and other meats employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 16 employers in St. James, MN · 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 Lumber Bridge Processing 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR OKF Newlon Warehouse 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Processing plant 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR J & J Enterprises, LLC 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Viking Automatic Sprinkler Company 536 FTE
STATE-SIZE SkyWater Technology Foundry 536 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Maple Grove 536 FTE
STATE-SIZE AmesburyTruth - Owatonna 537 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smithfield Foods 586 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. James High School 79 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of St. James 75 FTE
CITY-NEAR Watonwan County Courthouse & Resource Center 73 FTE
NAT-TCR ISS Facility Services, Great Plains Division 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #1216 GLASSBORO, NJ 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 380 - Nanuet 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Auburn Hills - 1250 Brown Road 536 FTE
NAT-SIZE AUSUTXKW 536 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lance Camper Mfg Corp 536 FTE
NAT-SIZE The J.M. Smucker Company - Uncrustables 536 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: 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.