Animal fats (except poultry and small game) produced in slaughtering plants · Iowa

Swift Pork Company

Ottumwa, Ia, IA · ~1,980 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Swift Pork Company runs at 75% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Animal fats (except poultry and small game) produced in slaughtering plants workplace, earning a grade B.

Swift Pork Company: 2.5 TCR = 75% of Animal fats (except poultry and small game) produced in slaughtering plants BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Swift Pork Company safety composite

Swift Pork Company scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 89% 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

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 89% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.5

2023→2024

Swift Pork Company injury rate improved

Swift Pork Company's TCR fell 1.5 from 3.2 in 2023 to 1.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 3.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.25× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=3.2 · 2024=1.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311611 · Ottumwa, Ia, IA AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade B · TCR 2.5 · 75% of ind

  • DART 0.6 DART
  • RANK #6/26
  • PHOTO STX Beef
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 66 inj
  • SIZE ~1,980 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: STX Beef (0.0 TCR gap)

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Swift Pork Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Swift Pork Company averages 2.5 TCR (75% of the Animal fats (except poultry and small game) produced in slaughtering plants BLS benchmark).

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

Swift Pork Company TCR series: 2023=3.2 · 2024=1.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Swift Pork Company falls in its industry

212 Animal fats (except poultry an establishments

Safer than 85% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 26 Animal fats (except poultry an employers in Iowa.

Swift Pork Company (1,980 employees, TCR 2.5) 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 Swift Pork Company
Swift Pork Company (1,980 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 297 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Swift Pork Company has more employees than the Animal fats (except poultry and small ga 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
2024 1.7 0.6 28 11 0
2023 3.2 2.3 38 34 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311611 · IA · Ottumwa, Ia

212 Animal fats (except poultry and small game) produced in slaughtering plants employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 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 STX Beef 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR National Beef Moultrie, GA. 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pork Processing 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Smithfield Foods 2.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kirkwood Community College 2,009 FTE
STATE-SIZE Winnebago Industries - Forest City 2,047 FTE
STATE-SIZE SeaboardTriumph Foods 1,896 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southeast Iowa Regional Medical Center-Main Hospital 1,880 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ottumwa Bacon Swift Pork Company 543 FTE
NAT-TCR QuesTec Constructors, Inc 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR FC: Greencastle 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Black Warrior Electric Membership Corporation 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Clearfield 2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cacer - Cerritos Hub 1,981 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mercy General Hospital 1,979 FTE
NAT-SIZE St. Mary's Hospital - St. Louis 1,979 FTE
NAT-SIZE Blanchard Valley Hospital 1,978 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. 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.