Trucking, general freight, long-distance, truckload (TL) · Arkansas

Arcbest Corp

Fort Smith, AR · ~523 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Arcbest Corp runs at 1% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Trucking, general freight, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade A.

Arcbest Corp: 0.1 TCR = 1% of Trucking, general freight, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Arcbest Corp safety composite

Arcbest Corp scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 100% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 53%), 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).

B

83/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 100% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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%).

Arcbest Corp held a steady TCR band

Arcbest Corp's TCR held near 0.1 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.1 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2022=0.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Fort Smith, AR AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.1 · 1% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/73
  • PHOTO Lowell, AR - JB Hunt…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~523 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lowell, AR - JB Hunt Corporate A Marketing (0.0 TCR gap)

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Arcbest Corp in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Arcbest Corp averages 0.1 TCR (1% of the Trucking, general freight, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS benchmark).

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

Arcbest Corp TCR series: 2016=0 · 2022=0.1 · BLS 4.5

Where Arcbest Corp falls in its industry

3,252 Trucking, general freight, lon establishments

Safer than 100% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arkansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 73 Trucking, general freight, lon employers in Arkansas.

Arcbest Corp (523 employees, TCR 0.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Arcbest Corp
Arcbest Corp (523 employees, TCR 0.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Arcbest Corp has more employees than the Trucking, general freight, long-distance median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2022 0.1 0.0 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · AR · Fort Smith

3,252 Trucking, general freight, long-distance, truckload (TL) 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 Lowell, AR - JB Hunt Corporate A Marketing 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR EVANS DELIVERY COMPANY INC 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 300000170856345 - WI-Green Bay-RBC 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR BHRI CLUTE 0.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Arkansas Children's Northwest 522 FTE
STATE-SIZE 8098 519 FTE
STATE-SIZE Anchor Packaging Inc. Paragould 529 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corporate Office - AR 516 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 Evans Delivery Company Inc 0.1 TCR
NAT-TCR ATLCGAMTA01 - AT&T Services, Inc. 0.1 TCR
NAT-TCR CHCGILHQ - AT&T Services, Inc. 0.1 TCR
NAT-TCR OKTNVAEA - AT&T Services, Inc. 0.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Wegmans Tilghman Street 079 523 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6458-ZGRP 523 FTE
NAT-SIZE Infogroup PapS9L 523 FTE
NAT-SIZE 9277-690 Mount Snow 523 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: 2022, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.