Employer · Arkansas

AR189 Gurdon Plywood

Name: AR189 Gurdon Plywood Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Gurdon, AR · ~542 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 1.3
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

AR189 Gurdon Plywood runs at 41% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade A.

AR189 Gurdon Plywood: 1.3 TCR = 41% of industry BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

AR189 Gurdon Plywood safety composite

AR189 Gurdon Plywood scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 85% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 54%), 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).

73/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 1.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% of industry peers
DART rate: C 0.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% of industry peers
Fatalities: D 0

Safer than 54% 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

AR189 Gurdon Plywood: 1.5 → 1.9 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 2.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.43× in 2024

AR189 Gurdon Plywood's TCR rose 0.4 from 1.5 in 2016 to 1.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 2.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.43× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321212 · Gurdon, AR AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.3 · 41% of ind

DART 0.6 DART
RANK P85
PHOTO Beaumont
BOOK 8y book
INJ 53 inj
SIZE ~542 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Beaumont (0.0 TCR gap)

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Florien Plywoo

1.5
Chapman Plywoo

1.4
This site

1.3
Beaumont

1.3
Havana Plywood

1.3

What this shows AR189 Gurdon Plywood averages 1.3 TCR (41% of the industry BLS benchmark).

AR189 Gurdon Plywood TCR series: 2016=1.5 · 2017=0.3 · 2018=1 · 2019=1.4 · 2020=1.2 · 2022=0.9 · 2023=2.4 · 2024=1.9 · BLS 3.3

Where AR189 Gurdon Plywood falls in its industry

68 industry establishments

Safer than 85% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

AR189 Gurdon Plywood (542 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 238 employees and a TCR of 3.1

AR189 Gurdon Plywood has more employees than the industry median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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
2024	1.9	0.6	9	1
2023	2.4	2.0	11	0
2022	0.9	0.4	4	1
2020	1.2	0.7	6	1
2019	1.4	1.1	8	0
2018	1.0	0.7	5	1
2017	0.3	0.0	2	0
2016	1.5	0.8	8	1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321212 · AR · Gurdon

68 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,393 rated employers in Arkansas with headcount on file · 3 employers in Gurdon, AR · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Beaumont	BEAUMONT, MS	1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Havana Plywood - WP	HAVANA, FL	1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Chapman Plywood - WP	CHAPMAN, AL	1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Florien Plywood - WP	FLORIEN, LA	1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Gerber Products Co	FORT SMITH	543 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Gerdau Fort Smith Mill	FORT SMITH	543 FTE
STATE-SIZE	WM 7842	BENTONVILLE	543 FTE
STATE-SIZE	5260	ROGERS	545 FTE
CITY-NEAR	AR190 Gurdon Lumber	Gurdon	186 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Anthony-Higgs Lumber Co.	Gurdon	24 FTE
NAT-TCR	Hudsonville Ice Cream	Holland, MI	1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	1679 TGIF Williamsport	Williamsport, PA	1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Kershaw Oilseeds	Kershaw, SC	1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	International Paper - Savannah Mill	Savannah, GA	1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Home Chef - San Bernardino	San Bernardino, CA	542 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Normandale Community College	Bloomington, MN	542 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Amazon.com Services LLC - SNY5	Mellville, NY	542 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Kelvion, Inc	Catoosa, OK	542 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.