Tool boxes, light gauge metal, manufacturing · Arkansas

Apex Tool Group

Jonesboro, AR · ~133 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Apex Tool Group runs at 103% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Tool boxes, light gauge metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Apex Tool Group: 3.4 TCR = 103% of Tool boxes, light gauge metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Apex Tool Group safety composite

Apex Tool Group scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 84% 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).

C

67/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.7

2022→2024

Apex Tool Group injury rate improved

Apex Tool Group's TCR fell 1.7 from 4.3 in 2022 to 2.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 4.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=4.3 · 2023=3.3 · 2024=2.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332439 · Jonesboro, AR ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.4 · 103% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/5
  • PHOTO Greif (Florence SD)
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~133 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Greif (Florence SD) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Apex Tool Group in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Apex Tool Group averages 3.4 TCR (103% of the Tool boxes, light gauge metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Apex Tool Group TCR series: 2022=4.3 · 2023=3.3 · 2024=2.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Apex Tool Group falls in its industry

175 Tool boxes, light gauge metal, establishments

Safer than 63% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arkansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 5 Tool boxes, light gauge metal, employers in Arkansas.

Apex Tool Group (133 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Apex Tool Group
Apex Tool Group (133 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Apex Tool Group has more employees than the Tool boxes, light gauge metal, manufactu median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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 2.6 0.0 3 0 0
2023 3.3 1.3 5 0 0
2022 4.3 1.2 6 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332439 · AR · Jonesboro

175 Tool boxes, light gauge metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,393 rated employers in Arkansas with headcount on file · 169 employers in Jonesboro, 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 Greif (Florence SD) 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Greif Packaging LLC 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR WC Chilton 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Brock - Milford 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Millsap 133 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bill's Electric Inc. Arkansas 133 FTE
STATE-SIZE OCCDP NWA 133 FTE
STATE-SIZE Essick Air Products 133 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Bernards Medical Center 3,466 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Bernards Hospital 1,975 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hytrol Conveyor Company - Jonesboro 1,366 FTE
CITY-NEAR NEA Baptist Memorial Hospital 1,244 FTE
NAT-TCR Feintool Tennessee, Inc. 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Pratt (Love Box) LLC 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Sharon Care Center 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR IDEX Health & Science 3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Eldredge Lumber - York 133 FTE
NAT-SIZE PCI Construction, Inc. 133 FTE
NAT-SIZE Honeywell International Inc 133 FTE
NAT-SIZE Walters Recycling & Refuse Inc. 133 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, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.