Satellite dish, household-type, installation · Arkansas

Fort Smith

Fort Smith, AR · ~147 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fort Smith runs at 142% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Satellite dish, household-type, installation workplace, earning a grade D.

Fort Smith: 4.0 TCR = 142% of Satellite dish, household-type, installation BLS 2.8 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fort Smith safety composite

Fort Smith scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 16%), 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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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

Fort Smith: 4.8 → 6.5 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 7.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.94× in 2023

Fort Smith's TCR rose 1.8 from 4.8 in 2016 to 6.5 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2017 at 7.2 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.94× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238290 · Fort Smith, AR ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.0 · 142% of ind

  • DART 3.7 DART
  • RANK #13/15
  • PHOTO 650-Milwaukee
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 48 inj
  • SIZE ~147 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 650-Milwaukee (0.0 TCR gap)

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Fort Smith in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fort Smith averages 4.0 TCR (142% of the Satellite dish, household-type, installation BLS benchmark).

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

Fort Smith TCR series: 2016=4.8 · 2017=7.2 · 2018=1.7 · 2019=3.4 · 2020=1.7 · 2021=2.5 · 2022=4.2 · 2023=6.5 · BLS 2.8

Where Fort Smith falls in its industry

1,138 Satellite dish, household-type establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arkansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 15 Satellite dish, household-type employers in Arkansas.

Fort Smith (147 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 2.0 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Fort Smith
Fort Smith (147 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Fort Smith has more employees than the Satellite dish, household-type, installa median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.0. 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 6.5 3.7 7 0 0
2022 4.2 3.6 8 0 0
2021 2.5 1.7 2 1 0
2020 1.7 0.8 2 0 0
2019 3.4 2.5 4 0 0
2018 1.7 1.7 2 0 0
2017 7.2 1.4 14 1 0
2016 4.8 3.7 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238290 · AR · Fort Smith

1,138 Satellite dish, household-type, installation 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 650-Milwaukee 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vortex Industries - San Diego 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mid-States Millwright & Builders, Inc. 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR R.L. Insulation Co., Inc. 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE International Paper Fort Smith South 147 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bass Cat & Yar-Craft Boats 147 FTE
STATE-SIZE Assembled Products Corporation 147 FTE
STATE-SIZE Steve Landers Toyota of NWA 147 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 Unit 231 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Gmi - Ca 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Mandan 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR SC Pet Food Solutions 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE 10049 Tysons 147 FTE
NAT-SIZE Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Taylor 147 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kujawa Enterprises Inc-KEI 147 FTE
NAT-SIZE BizJet 147 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, 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.