Trucking · Arkansas

Ft. Smith

Van Buren, AR · ~44 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ft. Smith runs at 78% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Trucking workplace, earning a grade B.

Ft. Smith: 3.5 TCR = 78% of Trucking BLS 4.5 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ft. Smith safety composite

Ft. Smith scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 42%), 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).

D

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

−0.4

2016→2024

Ft. Smith injury rate improved

Ft. Smith's TCR fell 0.4 from 2.3 in 2016 to 2.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 8.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.56× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.3 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=6.5 · 2019=4.4 · 2020=2.1 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=6.2 · 2023=8.2 · 2024=2.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Van Buren, AR AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 3.5 · 78% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK #59/73
  • PHOTO Mechanicsburg, PA - …
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~44 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mechanicsburg, PA - 100 Fry Drive (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ft. Smith in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ft. Smith averages 3.5 TCR (78% of the Trucking BLS benchmark).

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

Ft. Smith TCR series: 2016=2.3 · 2017=0 · 2018=6.5 · 2019=4.4 · 2020=2.1 · 2021=0 · 2022=6.2 · 2023=8.2 · 2024=2 · BLS 4.5

Where Ft. Smith falls in its industry

3,252 Trucking establishments

Safer than 42% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arkansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #59 safest of 73 Trucking employers in Arkansas.

Ft. Smith (44 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Ft. Smith
Ft. Smith (44 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Ft. Smith has fewer employees than the Trucking median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2024 2.0 2.0 1 0 0
2023 8.2 6.1 4 0 0
2022 6.2 4.2 3 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 2.1 2.1 1 0 0
2019 4.4 0.0 2 0 0
2018 6.5 4.3 3 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 2.3 2.3 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · AR · Van Buren

3,252 Trucking employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,393 rated employers in Arkansas with headcount on file · 71 employers in Van Buren, 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 Mechanicsburg, PA - 100 Fry Drive 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR St. Paul, MN - 443 E Fillmore Ave 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wilmer Terminal-NON DOT 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR IN-Indianapolis-Operating Center 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Childress Gin and Elevator Company 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE River Stone Construction, Inc. 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE ECC:EC254 - EC254-Van Buren, AR-0300 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Peco Foods Inc.-Feedmill 44 FTE
CITY-NEAR Van Buren Drivers 1,245 FTE
CITY-NEAR Van Buren Plant 1,089 FTE
CITY-NEAR Van Buren General Office 850 FTE
CITY-NEAR VBR 751 FTE
NAT-TCR Sonbyrne Sales Inc 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 62049 - Capstone Us Foods Manassas Va 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Allen Contracting Inc. 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Masonry Specialist Corporation 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Williamsport PA FXFE-WPT 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Staunton VA FXFE-STN 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rock Springs WY FXFE-RSP 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Montpelier VT FXFE-MPV 44 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: 2024, 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.