Brick Manufacturer · Arkansas

Fort Smith Brick Plant

Fort Smith, AR · ~46 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fort Smith Brick Plant runs at 308% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Brick Manufacturer workplace, earning a grade F.

Fort Smith Brick Plant: 10.2 TCR = 308% of Brick Manufacturer BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fort Smith Brick Plant safety composite

Fort Smith Brick Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Fort Smith Brick Plant: 2.5 → 17.8 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 17.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1× in 2018

Fort Smith Brick Plant's TCR rose 15.3 from 2.5 in 2017 to 17.8 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327120 · Fort Smith, AR ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.2 · 308% of ind

  • DART 10.2 DART
  • RANK #5/5
  • PHOTO Florida Tile Nationa…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~46 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Florida Tile National Distribution Center (0.1 TCR gap)

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Fort Smith Brick Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fort Smith Brick Plant averages 10.2 TCR (308% of the Brick Manufacturer BLS benchmark).

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

Fort Smith Brick Plant TCR series: 2017=2.5 · 2018=17.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Fort Smith Brick Plant falls in its industry

307 Brick Manufacturer establishments

Safer than 7% 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 #5 safest of 5 Brick Manufacturer employers in Arkansas.

Fort Smith Brick Plant (46 employees, TCR 10.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 57 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Fort Smith Brick Plant
Fort Smith Brick Plant (46 employees, TCR 10.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 57 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Fort Smith Brick Plant has fewer employees than the Brick Manufacturer 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
2018 17.8 10.2 7 0 0
2017 2.5 2.5 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327120 · AR · Fort Smith

307 Brick Manufacturer 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 Florida Tile National Distribution Center 10.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR mcavoy brick 2019 10.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cherokee Brick & Tile Company, Tri-State Plant 10.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cushwa Plant 9.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hilburn Builders, Inc. 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE AJR Field 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE Systems Plant Services, Inc.- Hickman BLY02-14 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE Newark Feedmill 46 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 KWF Wesley Chapel, FL 10.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Dubuque IA Depot 10.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Truyu Clinic DeMers 10.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Westfield/ SSL MA 10.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Oldcastle OPI - Easton 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Oldcastle OPI - Topeka 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Quikrete - MIA 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE RAFS of PCB, Inc 46 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: 2018, 2017. 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.