Dog and cat food (e.g., canned, dry, frozen, semimoist), manufacturing · Arkansas

ARK

Ft. Smith, AR · ~391 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.3
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

ARK runs at 32% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Dog and cat food (e.g., canned, dry, frozen, semimoist), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

ARK: 1.3 TCR = 32% of Dog and cat food (e.g., canned, dry, frozen, semimoist), manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

ARK safety composite

ARK scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 85% 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

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% 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

ARK: 1.6 → 2.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1× in 2024

ARK's TCR rose 0.6 from 1.6 in 2016 to 2.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311111 · Ft. Smith, AR AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.3 · 32% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #2/8
  • PHOTO NCH
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 49 inj
  • SIZE ~391 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: NCH (0.0 TCR gap)

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ARK in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows ARK averages 1.3 TCR (32% of the Dog and cat food (e.g., canned, dry, frozen, semimoist), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

ARK TCR series: 2016=1.6 · 2017=1.3 · 2018=0.9 · 2019=1.8 · 2020=0.3 · 2021=1.2 · 2022=0.7 · 2023=1.3 · 2024=2.2 · BLS 3.9

Where ARK falls in its industry

302 Dog and cat food (e.g., canned establishments

Safer than 85% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

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 8 Dog and cat food (e.g., canned employers in Arkansas.

ARK (391 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 103 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 0200400600 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate ARK
ARK (391 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 103 employees and a TCR of 3.3

ARK has more employees than the Dog and cat food (e.g., canned, dry, fro median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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 2.2 1.3 14 2 0
2023 1.3 0.2 8 0 0
2022 0.7 0.6 4 0 0
2021 1.2 1.2 5 0 0
2020 0.3 0.3 1 0 0
2019 1.8 1.5 6 0 0
2018 0.9 0.0 2 1 0
2017 1.3 0.6 4 0 0
2016 1.6 1.0 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311111 · AR · Ft. Smith

302 Dog and cat food (e.g., canned, dry, frozen, semimoist), manufacturing 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 NCH 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR MCB 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nestle Purina Petcare Company 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR TFH Publications Nylabone Products 1.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bekaert Van Buren (BKVB) 390 FTE
STATE-SIZE 85 392 FTE
STATE-SIZE 03010001-030109 ST VINCENT MEDICAL CENTER NORTH 390 FTE
STATE-SIZE Trinity Rail Maintenance Services 389 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ft. Smith Metal 172 FTE
CITY-NEAR ARFOS - FT. SMITH 149 FTE
CITY-NEAR FT. SMITH (ARFOS) 117 FTE
CITY-NEAR FT. SMITH AR 108 FTE
NAT-TCR Michael L. Shular D/B/A La Quinta Inn 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR CMC Construction Services Baton Rouge 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Pike North Carolina Statewide Operations 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Pike Mississippi Statewide Operations 1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Setex Inc 391 FTE
NAT-SIZE IKEA #488 Seattle 391 FTE
NAT-SIZE NSLIJ Research 391 FTE
NAT-SIZE Columbus 391 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, 2021, 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.