Chickens, slaughtering and dressing · Arkansas

Arkansas Plant 1

Fort Smith, AR · ~429 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Arkansas Plant 1 runs at 127% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Chickens, slaughtering and dressing workplace, earning a grade D.

Arkansas Plant 1: 4.2 TCR = 127% of Chickens, slaughtering and dressing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Arkansas Plant 1 safety composite

Arkansas Plant 1 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 40%), 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).

D

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.4

2019→2023

Arkansas Plant 1 injury rate improved

Arkansas Plant 1's TCR fell 2.4 from 4.4 in 2019 to 1.9 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2020 at 6.9 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=4.4 · 2020=6.9 · 2021=3.1 · 2022=4.7 · 2023=1.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311615 · Fort Smith, AR ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.2 · 127% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #39/69
  • PHOTO Diestel Turkey Ranch
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 83 inj
  • SIZE ~429 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Diestel Turkey Ranch (0.0 TCR gap)

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Arkansas Plant 1 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Arkansas Plant 1 averages 4.2 TCR (127% of the Chickens, slaughtering and dressing BLS benchmark).

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

Arkansas Plant 1 TCR series: 2019=4.4 · 2020=6.9 · 2021=3.1 · 2022=4.7 · 2023=1.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Arkansas Plant 1 falls in its industry

509 Chickens, slaughtering and dre establishments

Safer than 40% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arkansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #39 safest of 69 Chickens, slaughtering and dre employers in Arkansas.

Arkansas Plant 1 (429 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 05001,0001,5002,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Arkansas Plant 1
Arkansas Plant 1 (429 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Arkansas Plant 1 has fewer employees than the Chickens, slaughtering and dressing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2023 1.9 1.6 6 1 0
2022 4.7 4.1 15 3 0
2021 3.1 2.4 15 1 0
2020 6.9 4.5 26 0 0
2019 4.4 3.7 21 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311615 · AR · Fort Smith

509 Chickens, slaughtering and dressing 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 Diestel Turkey Ranch 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR OKF Fort Smith Plant 1 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR DG Foods, LLC Hazlehurst 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sanderson Farms Hazlehurst Processing 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE 11 429 FTE
STATE-SIZE 8799 429 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pace Industries 430 FTE
STATE-SIZE Great Dane Jonesboro 428 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 Sylvania Country Club 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Cheney Tire, Inc. 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Isometric Micro Molding, Inc. 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Finelite, Union City 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE WesTech Engineering, LLC 429 FTE
NAT-SIZE NIBCO Stuarts Draft 429 FTE
NAT-SIZE Raytheon Company 429 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gowan 429 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.