Motor vehicle metal parts stamping · Arkansas

Defiance Metal Products: Heber Springs, AR

Name: Defiance Metal Products: Heber Springs, AR Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Heber Springs, AR · ~202 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 9.1
Avg TCR: 5.4
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Defiance Metal Products: Heber Springs, AR runs at 168% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Motor vehicle metal parts stamping workplace, earning a grade D.

Defiance Metal Products: Heber Springs, AR: 9.1 TCR = 168% of Motor vehicle metal parts stamping BLS 5.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Defiance Metal Products: Heber Springs, AR safety composite

Defiance Metal Products: Heber Springs, AR scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 11%), 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).

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 9.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers
DART rate: F 4.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% 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

Defiance Metal Products: Heber Springs, AR: 6.1 → 7.8 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 11.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.5× in 2019

Defiance Metal Products: Heber Springs, AR's TCR rose 1.7 from 6.1 in 2016 to 7.8 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 11.6 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336370 · Heber Springs, AR ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 9.1 · 168% of ind

DART 4.6 DART
RANK P11
PHOTO ITW Drawform Waterbury
BOOK 4y book
INJ 69 inj
SIZE ~202 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ITW Drawform Waterbury (0.1 TCR gap)

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9.3
LMV Automotive

9.2
This site

9.1
ITW Drawform W

9
Advanced Assem

8.9

What this shows Defiance Metal Products: Heber Springs, AR averages 9.1 TCR (168% of the Motor vehicle metal parts stamping BLS benchmark).

Defiance Metal Products: Heber Springs, AR TCR series: 2016=6.1 · 2017=10.8 · 2018=11.6 · 2019=7.8 · BLS 5.4

Where Defiance Metal Products: Heber Springs, AR falls in its industry

510 Motor vehicle metal parts stam establishments

Safer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Defiance Metal Products: Heber Springs, AR (202 employees, TCR 9.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 145 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Defiance Metal Products: Heber Springs, AR has more employees than the Motor vehicle metal parts stamping median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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
2019	7.8	4.6	17	0
2018	11.6	8.9	25	1
2017	10.8	7.4	18	1
2016	6.1	2.7	9	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336370 · AR · Heber Springs

510 Motor vehicle metal parts stamping employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,393 rated employers in Arkansas with headcount on file · 19 employers in Heber Springs, AR · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	ITW Drawform Waterbury	WATERBURY, CT	9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	LMV Automotive Systems	LIBERTY, MO	9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Advanced Assembly Products, Inc.	HAZEL PARK, MI	8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	TTD - Alexis	TOLEDO, OH	9.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Anchor Packaging Inc. Jonesboro	JONESBORO	202 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Little Rock	LITTLE ROCK	202 FTE
STATE-SIZE	102	STUTTGART	202 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Goodwill Industries of Arkansas Inc	LITTLE ROCK	202 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Saint Jean Industries	Heber Springs	422 FTE
CITY-NEAR	NDX Green	Heber Springs	272 FTE
CITY-NEAR	NDX GREEN LABORATORIES	Heber Springs	246 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Mayville Engineering Company Heber Springs, AR	Heber Springs	197 FTE
NAT-TCR	Allied Omaha Retread	Omaha, NE	9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	Customer Service Center	Fort Worth, TX	9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	4800 Kindred Rehab Hosp Northeast	Humble, TX	9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	KWF GA East Point Distribution Center	East Point, GA	9.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE	American Electrical Testing Co., LLC	Foxboro, MA	202 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Annin Flagmakers-South Boston	South Boston, VA	202 FTE
NAT-SIZE	IPI Offenders	Anamosa, IA	202 FTE
NAT-SIZE	National Publishing	Philadelphia, PA	202 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: 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.