Confectionery Merchant Wholesalers · Arkansas

43561f - Fort Smith

Fort Smith, AR · ~26 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

43561f - Fort Smith runs at 108% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Confectionery Merchant Wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

43561f - Fort Smith: 2.4 TCR = 108% of Confectionery Merchant Wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

43561f - Fort Smith safety composite

43561f - Fort Smith scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

−3.4

2016→2021

43561f - Fort Smith injury rate improved

43561f - Fort Smith's TCR fell 3.4 from 3.4 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 8.5 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.4 · 2017=0.0 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=8.5 · 2021=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424450 · Fort Smith, AR ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.4 · 108% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #5/10
  • PHOTO 48231C - BLOOMINGTON
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 48231C - BLOOMINGTON (0.0 TCR gap)

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43561f - Fort Smith in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 43561f - Fort Smith averages 2.4 TCR (108% of the Confectionery Merchant Wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

43561f - Fort Smith TCR series: 2016=3.4 · 2017=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=8.5 · 2021=0 · BLS 2.2

Where 43561f - Fort Smith falls in its industry

773 Confectionery Merchant Wholesa establishments

Safer than 60% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arkansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 10 Confectionery Merchant Wholesa employers in Arkansas.

43561f - Fort Smith (26 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 0200400600 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate 43561f - Fort Smith
43561f - Fort Smith (26 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 2.8

43561f - Fort Smith has fewer employees than the Confectionery Merchant Wholesalers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 8.5 5.7 3 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 3.4 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424450 · AR · Fort Smith

773 Confectionery Merchant Wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,393 rated employers in Arkansas with headcount on file · 249 employers in Fort Smith, AR · 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 48231C - BLOOMINGTON 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 42511E - MONTAGE DC 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR JAMESTOWN BIN 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 49751T - PUEBLO BIN 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Green Forest Hatchery 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Clarksville Hatchery #1 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE RHM Gin & Warehouse 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hope Growout 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR MERCY HOSPITAL FORT SMITH 1,944 FTE
CITY-NEAR ABB Motors and Mechanical, Inc. - Fort Smith 1,298 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fort Smith - 5713 RS Boreham Jr Street 985 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baptist Health Medical Center - Fort Smith 970 FTE
NAT-TCR Petaluma - Pet1 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Bellevue MCPP 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR USCS- Lavergne, TN 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Stevens Point, WI 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE 49731i - Yuma Bin 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE 43221d - Hermantown 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE 43621d - Union Grove 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE 49341ah - Yakima Bin 26 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2017, 2016. 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.