SIC Industry Description

Industry: 2011—Meat Packing Plants
Establishments primarily engaged in the slaughtering, for their own account or on a contract basis for the trade, of cattle, hogs, sheep, lambs, and calves for meat to be sold or to be used on the same premises in canning, cooking, curing, and freezing, and in making sausage, lard, and other products. Also included in this industry are establishments primarily engaged in slaughtering horses for human consumption. Establishments primarily engaged in slaughtering, dressing, and packing poultry, rabbits, and other small game are classified in Industry 2015; and those primarily engaged in slaughtering and processing animals not for human consumption are classified in Industry 2048. Establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing sausages and meat specialties from purchased meats are classified in Industry 2013; and establishments primarily engaged in canning meat for baby food are classified in Industry 2032.

Bacon, slab and sliced—mitseLambƒmitse
Beef—mitseLard—mitse
Blood mealLuncheon meat, except poultry—mitse
Boxed beef—mitseMeat extracts—mitse
Canned meats, except baby foods and animal feeds—mitseMeat packing plants
Corned beef—mitseMeat—mitse
Cured meats—mitseMutton—mitse
Dried meats—mitsePork—mitse
Frankfurters, except poultry—mitseSausages—mitse
Hams, except poultry—mitseSlaughtering plants: except animals not for human consumption
Hides and skins, cured or uncuredVariety meats edible organs—mitse
Horsemeat for human consumption—mitseVeal—mitse
Codes TitlesTotal Marketable US Businesses
2011Meat Packing Plants1,950
201100Meat packing plants1,527
20110000Meat packing plants1,527
201101Beef products, from beef slaughtered on site202
20110100Beef products, from beef slaughtered on site152
20110101Boxed beef, from meat slaughtered on site36
20110102Corned beef, from meat slaughtered on site2
20110103Veal, from meat slaughtered on site12
201102Pork products, from pork slaughtered on site96
20110200Pork products, from pork slaughtered on site71
20110201Bacon, slab and sliced, from meat slaughtered on site16
20110202Hams and picnics, from meat slaughtered on site9
201103Lamb products, from lamb slaughtered on site25
20110300Lamb products, from lamb slaughtered on site23
20110301Mutton, from meat slaughtered on site2
201104Meat by-products, from meat slaughtered on site53
20110400Meat by-products, from meat slaughtered on site48
20110401Blood meal3
20110402Hides, cured or uncured: from carcasses slaughtered on site2
20110403Lard, from carcasses slaughtered on site0
201199Meat packing plants, nec47
20119901Canned meats (except baby food), meat slaughtered on site9
20119902Cured meats, from meat slaughtered on site7
20119903Dried meats, from meat slaughtered on site0
20119904Frankfurters, from meat slaughtered on site1
20119905Horse meat, for human consumption: slaughtered on site1
20119906Luncheon meat, from meat slaughtered on site2
20119907Sausages, from meat slaughtered on site17
20119908Variety meats, fresh edible organs10