Processed meats manufacturing · California

Swift Beef Co.

Riverside, CA · ~382 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Swift Beef Co. runs at 192% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Processed meats manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Swift Beef Co.: 6.3 TCR = 192% of Processed meats manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Swift Beef Co. safety composite

Swift Beef Co. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 21%), 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).

F

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% 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

Swift Beef Co.: 5.2 → 6.0 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 7.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.84× in 2024

Swift Beef Co.'s TCR rose 0.8 from 5.2 in 2021 to 6.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 7.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.84× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311612 · Riverside, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.3 · 192% of ind

  • DART 5.3 DART
  • RANK #23/43
  • PHOTO Stock Yards / Birmin…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 72 inj
  • SIZE ~382 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Stock Yards / Birmingham (0.0 TCR gap)

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Swift Beef Co. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Swift Beef Co. averages 6.3 TCR (192% of the Processed meats manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Swift Beef Co. TCR series: 2021=5.2 · 2022=6.7 · 2023=7.4 · 2024=6 · BLS 3.3

Where Swift Beef Co. falls in its industry

613 Processed meats manufacturing establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #23 safest of 43 Processed meats manufacturing employers in California.

Swift Beef Co. (382 employees, TCR 6.3) 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 Swift Beef Co.
Swift Beef Co. (382 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Swift Beef Co. has more employees than the Processed meats manufacturing 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
2024 6.0 5.3 11 6 0
2023 7.4 7.1 17 5 0
2022 6.7 5.8 23 7 0
2021 5.2 4.5 21 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · CA · Riverside

613 Processed meats manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 536 employers in Riverside, CA · 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 Stock Yards / Birmingham 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cargill Neb City 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Buckhead Meat of Minnesota 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nitsches Sausage Company 6.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE A Perez FLC, Inc. 382 FTE
STATE-SIZE Teichert Construction Woodland 382 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2750 S Towne Ave 382 FTE
STATE-SIZE 928 382 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC Riverside 8,676 FTE
CITY-NEAR CA-21 4,525 FTE
CITY-NEAR Riverside Community Hospital 2,354 FTE
CITY-NEAR 08681351 RIVERSIDE MED CENTER 2,349 FTE
NAT-TCR COH Whitney Ranch Recreation Center 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Metagenics Inc. - WA Production 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Kls Stryker Tn Rdc 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Fort Morgan 6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Midwest Tape, LLC 382 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hickory Chair 382 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sysco 382 FTE
NAT-SIZE General Plastics & Composites 382 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, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.