Meats, cured or smoked, produced in slaughtering plants · North Carolina

Smithfield

Wilson, NC · ~618 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Smithfield runs at 24% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Meats, cured or smoked, produced in slaughtering plants workplace, earning a grade A.

Smithfield: 0.8 TCR = 24% of Meats, cured or smoked, produced in slaughtering plants BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Smithfield safety composite

Smithfield scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 98% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 55%), 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).

B

85/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 98% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% of industry peers

Fatalities
C 0

Safer than 55% 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 held a steady TCR band

Smithfield's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.8 in 2016 to 0.8 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 0.8 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.59× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.8 · 2018=0.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311611 · Wilson, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.8 · 24% of ind

  • DART 0.5 DART
  • RANK #1/9
  • PHOTO Smithfield Fresh Mea…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~618 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Smithfield Fresh Meats Corp (0.0 TCR gap)

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Smithfield in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Smithfield averages 0.8 TCR (24% of the Meats, cured or smoked, produced in slaughtering plants BLS benchmark).

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

Smithfield TCR series: 2016=0.8 · 2018=0.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Smithfield falls in its industry

212 Meats, cured or smoked, produc establishments

Safer than 98% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 9 Meats, cured or smoked, produc employers in North Carolina.

Smithfield (618 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 297 employees and a TCR of 5.3 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Smithfield
Smithfield (618 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 297 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Smithfield has more employees than the Meats, cured or smoked, produced in slau median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.3. 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
2018 0.8 0.5 5 0 0
2016 0.8 0.6 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311611 · NC · Wilson

212 Meats, cured or smoked, produced in slaughtering plants employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 148 employers in Wilson, NC · 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 Smithfield Fresh Meats Corp 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR JBS 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dewig Bros. Packing Co., Inc. 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Momence Packing 0.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE WFBMC - Wilkes Medical Center 618 FTE
STATE-SIZE Riegelwood Mill 619 FTE
STATE-SIZE FUJIFILM DIOSYNTH BIOTECHNOLOGIES. NC 617 FTE
STATE-SIZE Industrial Connections and Solutions LLC 620 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wilson (BAMG) 1,797 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Wilson 1,080 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kidde Aerospace & Defense 1,064 FTE
CITY-NEAR DLP Wilson Medical Center 907 FTE
NAT-TCR Saint Rose NOL 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 3495-10DC140 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Fairfax Office (100141) 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR C&S Worldwide Holdings Inc. 0.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Holy Family Medical Center LTAC 618 FTE
NAT-SIZE Aslpundh Tree Expert LLC-46 618 FTE
NAT-SIZE William A. Hazel, Inc 618 FTE
NAT-SIZE Salida 618 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.