Hot-rolling purchased steel · Arkansas

Friedman Industries Inc

Armorel, AR · ~22 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Friedman Industries Inc runs at 139% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Hot-rolling purchased steel workplace, earning a grade D.

Friedman Industries Inc: 4.6 TCR = 139% of Hot-rolling purchased steel BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Friedman Industries Inc safety composite

Friedman Industries Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 43%), 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).

C

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.7

2019→2021

Friedman Industries Inc injury rate improved

Friedman Industries Inc's TCR fell 0.7 from 3.7 in 2019 to 2.9 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 7.1 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=3.7 · 2020=7.1 · 2021=2.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331221 · Armorel, AR ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.6 · 139% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/4
  • PHOTO JMS Russel Metals Co…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: JMS Russel Metals Corp - Blytheville (0.0 TCR gap)

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Friedman Industries Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Friedman Industries Inc averages 4.6 TCR (139% of the Hot-rolling purchased steel BLS benchmark).

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

Friedman Industries Inc TCR series: 2019=3.7 · 2020=7.1 · 2021=2.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Friedman Industries Inc falls in its industry

206 Hot-rolling purchased steel establishments

Safer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arkansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 4 Hot-rolling purchased steel employers in Arkansas.

Friedman Industries Inc (22 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 77 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 Friedman Industries Inc
Friedman Industries Inc (22 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 77 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Friedman Industries Inc has fewer employees than the Hot-rolling purchased steel median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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
2021 2.9 0.0 1 0 0
2020 7.1 0.0 2 0 0
2019 3.7 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331221 · AR · Armorel

206 Hot-rolling purchased steel employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,393 rated employers in Arkansas with headcount on file · 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 JMS Russel Metals Corp - Blytheville 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Penn Automotive - Romulus 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Grob Inc. 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bekaert Orrville 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Peco Foods Inc.-Truck Shop 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Morrilton Hatchery 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Berryville Growout 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Thomas B. Fitzhugh Generating Station 22 FTE
CITY-NEAR Skyline Steel, LLC 49 FTE
NAT-TCR S03737 - WM of IL - North (Antioch) 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Missoula Store 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Shoprite of Jackson 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 1st Fire Protection Services, LLC 4.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE E&S Precision Machine, Inc. 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Peiffer Machine Services 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Florida Metallizing Service, Inc 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE American Furniture Rental-Charlotte 22 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: 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.