2016 Worker Safety Recognition Awards

The primary program goals are to motivate participants to improve their worker safety performance through the establishment of sound safety and health programs at the plant level and to recognize those plants that have achieved a high level of safety performance as part of the continuing effort to reduce occupational injury and illness.

In addition, the program can boost employee morale, reduce expenses associated with injuries and illness in the workplace and enhance the meat and poultry industry’s overall image regarding employee safety and health.

Awards Explanation

The various levels of awards that may be earned are based on an evaluation of each eligible plant’s actual safety performance as well as its implementation of various key components of an effective safety and health program as measured by the safety program questionnaire. Of the 1,500 points available, 900, or 60 percent, may be earned based on the outcome of a statistical analysis of the plant’s injury and illness data performed by the National Safety Council staff. The analysis includes an evaluation of both the Total Recordable Cases rate and the rate for Cases With Days Away from Work, Job Transfer, or Restriction (DART). The two rates are each worth up to 450 points (one half) of the total points available for safety performance.

Worker Safety Award Winners – Award of Honor

Johnsonville Sausage LLC - Banner Creek, LLC Pilgrim's - East Plant Holton, Kansas Mount Pleasant,

Johnsonville Sausage LLC - Momence Packing Plumrose USA Momence, Elkhart, Indiana

Keystone Foods Equity Group Georgia Division Quality Pork Processors Camilla, Georgia Austin,

Land O'Frost, Inc. Lansing, Illinois Bolingbrook, Illinois

Land O'Frost, Inc. Smithfield Foods Madisonville, Kentucky Charlotte, North Carolina

Land O'Frost, Inc. Smithfield Foods Searcy, Arkansas Omaha,

Long Prairie Packing Smithfield Foods Hog Production Division South Central Long Prairie, Minnesota Rose Hill, North Carolina

Maple Leaf Foods - Canning Plant Smithfield Foods Mississauga, Salt Lake City,

OSI Industries, LLC Smithfield Foods Oakland, Sioux Center, Iowa

Pilgrim's Smithfield Foods Marshville, North Carolina Sioux Falls, South Dakota

Smithfield Foods Land and Nutrient Management Warsaw, North Carolina

Worker Safety Award Winners – Award of Merit

BEF Foods, Inc. Xenia, Ohio Keystone Foods Equity Group North Carolina Division Reidsville, North Carolina Birchwood Foods Columbus, Ohio Maple Leaf Food - Courtney Park Plant Mississauga, Ontario Caviness Beef Packers Hereford, Texas Maple Leaf Foods - Brandon Plant Brandon, Manitoba Caviness Beef Packers Amarillo, Texas Maple Leaf Foods - Cappola Plant North York, Ontario Gibbon Packing Gibbon, Nebraska Maple Leaf Foods - Heritage Plant Hannon, Ontario Indiana Packers Corporation Delphi, Indiana Maple Leaf Foods - Parma Plant Laval, JBS USA Beardstown, Illinois Maple Leaf Foods - Speedvale Plant New Hamburg, Ontario JBS USA Marshalltown, Illinois Maple Leaf Foods - Poultry Plant Toronto, Ontario JBS USA Worthington, Minnesota Omaha Steaks International, Inc. - F Street Plant Omaha, Nebraska Johnsonville Sausage LLC – Countryside Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin Omaha Steaks International, Inc. - Snyder Plant Omaha, Nebraska Johnsonville Sausage LLC – Meadowside Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin OSI Industries, LLC West Jordan, Utah Johnsonville Sausage, LLC – Riverside Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin Perry Way Foods Watertown, Wisconsin Keystone Foods Equity Group Alabama Division Gadsden, Alabama Pilgrim's DeQueen, Arkansas Keystone Foods Equity Group Eufaula Complex Baker Hill, Alabama Pilgrim's Mt. Pleasant, Texas Keystone Foods Equity Group Kentucky Division Albany, Kentucky Pilgrim's Natchitoches, Louisiana Smithfield Foods Tar Heel, North Carolina Plumrose USA, Inc. Council Bluffs, Iowa Smithfield Foods Wichita, Kansas Smithfield Foods Grayson, Kentucky Smithfield Foods Warsaw, North Carolina Smithfield Foods Kinston, North Carolina Smithfield Foods Hog Production Midwest Region Algona, Iowa Smithfield Foods , Indiana Smithfield Foods Hog Production Missouri Princeton, Missouri Smithfield Foods Orange City, Iowa Smithfield Foods Hog Production – Premium Genetics Rose Hill, North Carolina Smithfield Foods San Jose, California Smithfield Foods Hog Production Utah Milford, Utah Smithfield Foods Springdale, Ohio

Worker Safety Award Winners – Award of Commendation

Boar's Head Provisions Co., Inc. Maple Leaf Foods – Walker Drive Holland, Michigan Brampton, Ontario

Boars Head Provisions Co., Inc. Omaha Steaks International, Inc. – 96th St. Plant Petersburg, Virginia Omaha, Nebraska

BEF Foods, Inc. OSI Industries, LLC Hillsdale, Michigan , Illinois

Birchwood Foods Pilgrim’s Kenosha, Wisconsin Canton, Georgia

Keystone Foods Equity Group Ohio Division Pilgrim's North Baltimore, Ohio Chattanooga, Tennessee

Maple Leaf Foods Pilgrim's Brantford, Ontario Elberton, Georgia

Maple Leaf Foods – Brampton Poultry Smithfield Foods Brampton, Ontario Mason City, Iowa

Maple Leaf Foods Smithfield Foods Port Perry, Ontario Springfield, Massachusetts

Maple Leaf Foods Smithfield Foods St. Anselme, Quebec St. Charles, Illinois

Maple Leaf Foods Swaggertys Sausage Inc. St. Mary’s, Ontario Kodak, Tennessee

Swift Pork Company Louisville, Kentucky

Worker Safety Award Winners – Certificate of Recognition

American Foods Group – Cimpl’s, LLC OSI Industries, LLC Yankton, South Dakota West Chicago, Illinois

American Foods Group – King’s Premium Pet Health Command Food, LLC Denver, Versailles, Ohio Premium Pet Health American Foods Group Smithfield, Virginia Sharonville, Ohio Smithfield Foods American Foods Group – Skylark Meats, Elizabeth, New Jersey LLC Omaha, Nebraska Smithfield Foods Sioux City, Iowa BEF Foods, LLC Lima, Ohio Smithfield Foods St. James, Minnesota Birchwood Foods Norcross, Georgia Smithfield Foods - Duplin Marketing Company, LLC Boar's Head Provisions Co., Inc. Clinton, North Carolina New Castle, Indiana Smithfield Foods Hog Production West Greater Omaha Packing Co., Inc. Region Division Omaha, Nebraska Laurinburg, North Carolina

Green Bay Dressed Beef, LLC Square-H Brands, Inc. Green Bay, Wisconsin Vernon, California

Yosemite Meat Co., Inc. Modesto, California

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE WINNERS FOR YOUR OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENTS IN WORKER SAFETY