General medical and surgical hospitals · Arkansas

Baptist Health Medical Center - Fort Smith

Fort Smith, AR · ~970 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
6.6
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Baptist Health Medical Center - Fort Smith runs at 88% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical General medical and surgical hospitals workplace, earning a grade C.

Baptist Health Medical Center - Fort Smith: 6.6 TCR = 88% of General medical and surgical hospitals BLS 7.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Baptist Health Medical Center - Fort Smith safety composite

Baptist Health Medical Center - Fort Smith scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 67% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 30%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

−5.8

2018→2024

Baptist Health Medical Center - Fort Smith injury rate improved

Baptist Health Medical Center - Fort Smith's TCR fell 5.8 from 11.7 in 2018 to 5.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 11.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.16× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=11.7 · 2019=7.0 · 2020=5.4 · 2021=5.7 · 2022=4.5 · 2023=6.2 · 2024=5.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · Fort Smith, AR AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 6.6 · 88% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #65/85
  • PHOTO Williamson Hospital
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 466 inj
  • SIZE ~970 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Williamson Hospital (0.0 TCR gap)

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Baptist Health Medical Center - Fort Smith in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Baptist Health Medical Center - Fort Smith averages 6.6 TCR (88% of the General medical and surgical hospitals BLS benchmark).

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

Baptist Health Medical Center - Fort Smith TCR series: 2018=11.7 · 2019=7 · 2020=5.4 · 2021=5.7 · 2022=4.5 · 2023=6.2 · 2024=5.9 · BLS 7.5

Where Baptist Health Medical Center - Fort Smith falls in its industry

6,862 General medical and surgical h establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arkansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #65 safest of 85 General medical and surgical h employers in Arkansas.

Baptist Health Medical Center - Fort Smith (970 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2 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 02,0004,0006,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Baptist Health Medical Center - Fort Smith
Baptist Health Medical Center - Fort Smith (970 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Baptist Health Medical Center - Fort Smith has more employees than the General medical and surgical hospitals median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.2. 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 5.9 1.0 57 0 0
2023 6.2 1.8 64 0 0
2022 4.5 1.3 44 0 0
2021 5.7 0.7 54 0 0
2020 5.4 1.9 48 4 0
2019 7.0 2.5 76 0 0
2018 11.7 3.1 123 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · AR · Fort Smith

6,862 General medical and surgical hospitals 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 Williamson Hospital 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lee's Summit Medical Center 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pioneer Medical Center 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Memorial Hospital - Burlington County 6.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE American Greetings Corporation 977 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 6094 956 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fort Smith - 5713 RS Boreham Jr Street 985 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nucor-Yamato Steel Co, Inc. 987 FTE
CITY-NEAR MERCY HOSPITAL FORT SMITH 1,944 FTE
CITY-NEAR ABB Motors and Mechanical, Inc. - Fort Smith 1,298 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rheem Manufacturing Fort Smith 888 FTE
CITY-NEAR ArcBest 630 698 FTE
NAT-TCR Shippers Transport Express Oakland 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Diamond Plastics Corporation Casa Grande 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Clayton Wakarusa 996 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR S04087 - WM of Oregon, Inc 6.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE EP St. Paul MN 970 FTE
NAT-SIZE NP Boulder LLC, dba Boulder Station Hotel & Casino 970 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corporate Staff Offices NAHQ 970 FTE
NAT-SIZE Loenbro, LLC 970 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.