Barbed and twisted wire made in wire drawing plants · Arkansas

Bekaert Corporation

Van Buren, AR · ~439 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

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

Bekaert Corporation runs at 39% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Barbed and twisted wire made in wire drawing plants workplace, earning a grade A.

Bekaert Corporation: 1.3 TCR = 39% of Barbed and twisted wire made in wire drawing plants BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bekaert Corporation safety composite

Bekaert Corporation scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 88% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

−0.8

2023→2024

Bekaert Corporation injury rate improved

Bekaert Corporation's TCR fell 0.8 from 1.7 in 2023 to 0.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 1.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=1.7 · 2024=0.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331222 · Van Buren, AR AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.3 · 39% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/6
  • PHOTO Insteel Wire Product…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~439 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Insteel Wire Products - Sanderson, FL (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bekaert Corporation in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bekaert Corporation averages 1.3 TCR (39% of the Barbed and twisted wire made in wire drawing plants BLS benchmark).

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

Bekaert Corporation TCR series: 2023=1.7 · 2024=0.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Bekaert Corporation falls in its industry

163 Barbed and twisted wire made i establishments

Safer than 88% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

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 6 Barbed and twisted wire made i employers in Arkansas.

Bekaert Corporation (439 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Bekaert Corporation
Bekaert Corporation (439 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Bekaert Corporation has more employees than the Barbed and twisted wire made in wire dra median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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 0.9 0.0 4 0 0
2023 1.7 0.2 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331222 · AR · Van Buren

163 Barbed and twisted wire made in wire drawing plants employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,393 rated employers in Arkansas with headcount on file · 71 employers in Van Buren, 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 Insteel Wire Products - Sanderson, FL 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR SAO : LSM - Wauseon 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Insteel Wire Products FLW 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Merit Steel Co 1.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE FedEx 2200 FORWARD DRIVE 439 FTE
STATE-SIZE VBZ 437 FTE
STATE-SIZE Arkansas Plant 2 437 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 3230 441 FTE
CITY-NEAR Van Buren Drivers 1,245 FTE
CITY-NEAR Van Buren Plant 1,089 FTE
CITY-NEAR Van Buren General Office 850 FTE
CITY-NEAR VBR 751 FTE
NAT-TCR STR0414 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Shawnee Service Center 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR United Electric Company 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 244 Market Place 1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Community Services Board 439 FTE
NAT-SIZE Newport News Va 439 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - MMU9 439 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - DSJ5 439 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. 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.