Bacon, slab and sliced, made from purchased carcasses · Indiana

Swift Prepared Foods Elkhart

Name: Swift Prepared Foods Elkhart Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Elkhart, IN · ~225 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 2.9
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Swift Prepared Foods Elkhart runs at 88% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Bacon, slab and sliced, made from purchased carcasses workplace, earning a grade C.

Swift Prepared Foods Elkhart: 2.9 TCR = 88% of Bacon, slab and sliced, made from purchased carcasses BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Swift Prepared Foods Elkhart safety composite

Swift Prepared Foods Elkhart scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 2.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% 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 Prepared Foods Elkhart: 1.9 → 3.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 3.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.3× in 2024

Swift Prepared Foods Elkhart's TCR rose 2.0 from 1.9 in 2023 to 3.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311612 · Elkhart, IN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.9 · 88% of ind

DART 0.9 DART
RANK #5/11
PHOTO Smithfield Packaged …
BOOK 2y book
INJ 13 inj
SIZE ~225 FTE

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

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What this shows Swift Prepared Foods Elkhart averages 2.9 TCR (88% of the Bacon, slab and sliced, made from purchased carcasses BLS benchmark).

Swift Prepared Foods Elkhart TCR series: 2023=1.9 · 2024=3.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Swift Prepared Foods Elkhart falls in its industry

613 Bacon, slab and sliced, made f establishments

Safer than 70% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 11 Bacon, slab and sliced, made f employers in Indiana.

Swift Prepared Foods Elkhart (225 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Swift Prepared Foods Elkhart has more employees than the Bacon, slab and sliced, made from purcha median and a lower 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	3.9	0.9	9	0	0
2023	1.9	0.5	4	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · IN · Elkhart

613 Bacon, slab and sliced, made from purchased carcasses employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 401 employers in Elkhart, IN · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp	LINCOLN, NE	2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Cargill Beef	MILWAUKEE, WI	2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	US05 Mankato Links Snacks Inc.	MANKATO, MN	2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Hormel Foods	KNOXVILLE, IA	2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE	MAPLE LEAF FARMS, INC. - SERENADE & DC	MILFORD	225 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Middlebury Hardwood Products	MIDDLEBURY	225 FTE
STATE-SIZE	LaPorte Production Facility	LA PORTE	225 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Wabash Plastics, Inc	EVANSVILLE	225 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Forest River, Inc.	Elkhart	12,549 FTE
CITY-NEAR	THOR MOTOR COACH	Elkhart	2,437 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Elkhart Community Schools	Elkhart	1,892 FTE
CITY-NEAR	HRV LLC	Elkhart	1,692 FTE
NAT-TCR	Ritchie Engineering Company, Inc.	Bloomington, MN	2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	Groot South	Mccook, IL	2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	Care One at Northampton	Northampton, MA	2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	Wilsonville, OR	Wilsonville, OR	2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Vista Metals Georgia	Adairsville, GA	225 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Mease Life, Inc.	Dunedin, FL	225 FTE
NAT-SIZE	4C Foods Corp	Brooklyn, NY	225 FTE
NAT-SIZE	East West Wisconsin	Whitewater, WI	225 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.