Commercial and industrial machinery repair and maintenance services · Arkansas

AR FRT - Van Buren

Van Buren, AR · ~27 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.9
Avg TCR
2.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

AR FRT - Van Buren runs at 281% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Commercial and industrial machinery repair and maintenance services workplace, earning a grade F.

AR FRT - Van Buren: 5.9 TCR = 281% of Commercial and industrial machinery repair and maintenance services BLS 2.1 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

AR FRT - Van Buren safety composite

AR FRT - Van Buren scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 10%), 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).

F

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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

−1.2

2018→2021

AR FRT - Van Buren injury rate improved

AR FRT - Van Buren's TCR fell 1.2 from 6.5 in 2018 to 5.3 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 8.1 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.9× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=6.5 · 2019=3.6 · 2020=8.1 · 2021=5.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 811310 · Van Buren, AR ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 5.9 · 281% of ind

  • DART 5.3 DART
  • RANK #28/32
  • PHOTO NMC Group Norfolk Main
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: NMC Group Norfolk Main (0.0 TCR gap)

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AR FRT - Van Buren in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows AR FRT - Van Buren averages 5.9 TCR (281% of the Commercial and industrial machinery repair and maintenance services BLS benchmark).

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

AR FRT - Van Buren TCR series: 2018=6.5 · 2019=3.6 · 2020=8.1 · 2021=5.3 · BLS 2.1

Where AR FRT - Van Buren falls in its industry

2,560 Commercial and industrial mach establishments

Safer than 15% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arkansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #28 safest of 32 Commercial and industrial mach employers in Arkansas.

AR FRT - Van Buren (27 employees, TCR 5.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate AR FRT - Van Buren
AR FRT - Van Buren (27 employees, TCR 5.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.7

AR FRT - Van Buren has fewer employees than the Commercial and industrial machinery repa median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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
2021 5.3 5.3 2 0 0
2020 8.1 8.1 3 0 0
2019 3.6 0.0 1 0 0
2018 6.5 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

811310 · AR · Van Buren

2,560 Commercial and industrial machinery repair and maintenance services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,393 rated employers in Arkansas with headcount on file · 71 employers in Van Buren, 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 NMC Group Norfolk Main 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Compression Technologies and Services : SVC-Bessemer AL-USA 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Clarke Power Services-107 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR ITW/Hobart Service-Miami Branch 5.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE 1301-Growout-Live Operations 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Waldron Hatchery 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Grannis/Broken Bow Growout 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dardanelle Growout 27 FTE
CITY-NEAR Van Buren Drivers 1,245 FTE
CITY-NEAR Van Buren Plant 1,089 FTE
CITY-NEAR Van Buren General Office 850 FTE
CITY-NEAR VBR 751 FTE
NAT-TCR Jaynes Structures, Inc. - Albuquerque, NM 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Palmas Printing 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Machine Shop 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Stearns Plant 1 5.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ruan Transport Corporation T-125 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE DMS - Lufkin 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE The DM Burr Group - Holly Schools 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Clinton Avenue NSD 27 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.

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

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