Cold storage warehousing · Arkansas

Americold Fort Smith, AR

Ft. Smith, AR · ~35 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.9
Avg TCR
5.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Americold Fort Smith, AR runs at 67% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Cold storage warehousing workplace, earning a grade B.

Americold Fort Smith, AR: 3.9 TCR = 67% of Cold storage warehousing BLS 5.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Americold Fort Smith, AR safety composite

Americold Fort Smith, AR scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 26%), 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).

D

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% 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

Americold Fort Smith, AR: 2.8 → 6.8 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 6.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.15× in 2021

Americold Fort Smith, AR's TCR rose 4.0 from 2.8 in 2018 to 6.8 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.15× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 493120 · Ft. Smith, AR AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 3.9 · 67% of ind

  • DART 4.5 DART
  • RANK #25/35
  • PHOTO Hanson Cold Storage …
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~35 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hanson Cold Storage Co. of Indiana - Lafayette (0.0 TCR gap)

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Americold Fort Smith, AR in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Americold Fort Smith, AR averages 3.9 TCR (67% of the Cold storage warehousing BLS benchmark).

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

Americold Fort Smith, AR TCR series: 2018=2.8 · 2019=6.1 · 2020=0 · 2021=6.8 · BLS 5.8

Where Americold Fort Smith, AR falls in its industry

1,039 Cold storage warehousing establishments

Safer than 50% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arkansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #25 safest of 35 Cold storage warehousing employers in Arkansas.

Americold Fort Smith, AR (35 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 68 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Americold Fort Smith, AR
Americold Fort Smith, AR (35 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 68 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Americold Fort Smith, AR has fewer employees than the Cold storage warehousing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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 6.8 4.5 3 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 6.1 6.1 2 0 0
2018 2.8 2.8 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

493120 · AR · Ft. Smith

1,039 Cold storage warehousing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,393 rated employers in Arkansas with headcount on file · 12 employers in Ft. 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 Hanson Cold Storage Co. of Indiana - Lafayette 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cloverleaf Cold Storage-Chesapeake 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Orlando Distribution 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6055 3.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE England Farms 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fayetteville Hatchery (CV) 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hope Hatchery 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Springdale Growout 35 FTE
CITY-NEAR ARK 391 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ft. Smith Metal 172 FTE
CITY-NEAR ARFOS - FT. SMITH 149 FTE
CITY-NEAR FT. SMITH (ARFOS) 117 FTE
NAT-TCR Tru-Fit, LLC 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Main Electric Supply Company 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Minimatics, Inc. 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR SMG-SeaGate Convention Centre 3.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bangs Nursing Home 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brazosview Healthcare Center 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fairfield Inn & Suites Washington, DC 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Thayer Metro 35 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, 2018. 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.