Pipe, metal, merchant wholesalers · Arkansas

Boyd Metals of Fort Smith

Fort Smith, AR · ~77 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.1
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Boyd Metals of Fort Smith runs at 459% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Pipe, metal, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Boyd Metals of Fort Smith: 10.1 TCR = 459% of Pipe, metal, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Boyd Metals of Fort Smith safety composite

Boyd Metals of Fort Smith scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 6%), 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).

F

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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

Boyd Metals of Fort Smith: 14.8 → 93.2 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 93.2 TCR · DART/TCR 6.92× in 2020

Boyd Metals of Fort Smith's TCR rose 78.4 from 14.8 in 2016 to 93.2 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 6.92× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423510 · Fort Smith, AR ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.1 · 459% of ind

  • DART 69.9 DART
  • RANK #15/18
  • PHOTO state steel supply OM
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 25 inj
  • SIZE ~77 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: state steel supply OM (0.0 TCR gap)

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Boyd Metals of Fort Smith in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Boyd Metals of Fort Smith averages 10.1 TCR (459% of the Pipe, metal, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Boyd Metals of Fort Smith TCR series: 2016=14.8 · 2017=8.4 · 2018=5.8 · 2019=11.4 · 2020=93.2 · BLS 2.2

Where Boyd Metals of Fort Smith falls in its industry

1,299 Pipe, metal, merchant wholesal establishments

Safer than 9% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arkansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 18 Pipe, metal, merchant wholesal employers in Arkansas.

Boyd Metals of Fort Smith (77 employees, TCR 10.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Boyd Metals of Fort Smith
Boyd Metals of Fort Smith (77 employees, TCR 10.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Boyd Metals of Fort Smith has more employees than the Pipe, metal, merchant wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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
2020 93.2 69.9 4 0 0
2019 11.4 9.2 4 1 0
2018 5.8 4.9 7 0 0
2017 8.4 2.8 6 0 0
2016 14.8 11.1 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423510 · AR · Fort Smith

1,299 Pipe, metal, merchant wholesalers 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 state steel supply OM 10.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Geneva-Liberty Steel 10.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR S & S International, Inc. 10.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Terra Tech Services Glendive 10.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Starko Inc. 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ingevity LLC Crossett Plant 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE AR070 Crossett Chemical 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE White River Materials, Inc. 77 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 Wheeler Trucking 10.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Crestwood Behavioral Health 10.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Store #8 10.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Roses 315 10.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Selfridge Leasing, 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE Turner at Louisiana Sugar Refining Gramercy LA 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE Csfp - Convenience Plant 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stillwater Technologies, LLC - Troy 77 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: 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.