Other Grocery and Related Products Merchant Wholesalers · Arkansas

Ft Smith Ar

Name: Ft Smith Ar Workplace Safety Data
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Ft Smith, AR · ~124 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 8.3
Avg TCR: 2.2
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Ft Smith Ar runs at 376% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Other Grocery and Related Products Merchant Wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Ft Smith Ar: 8.3 TCR = 376% of Other Grocery and Related Products Merchant Wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ft Smith Ar safety composite

Ft Smith Ar scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 13%), 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).

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 8.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers
DART rate: F 10.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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

Ft Smith Ar: 6.3 → 10.2 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 10.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.24× in 2023

Ft Smith Ar's TCR rose 4.0 from 6.3 in 2021 to 10.2 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.24× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424490 · Ft Smith, AR ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.3 · 376% of ind

DART 10.2 DART
RANK #13/17
PHOTO Larsen Beverage Corp…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 21 inj
SIZE ~124 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Larsen Beverage Corporation - Pleasant View (0.0 TCR gap)

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8.3
Larsen Beverag

8.3
C020 Easton

8.3
Pierre - PI

8.3
Orrville

8.3

What this shows Ft Smith Ar averages 8.3 TCR (376% of the Other Grocery and Related Products Merchant Wholesalers BLS benchmark).

Ft Smith Ar TCR series: 2021=6.3 · 2023=10.2 · BLS 2.2

Where Ft Smith Ar falls in its industry

1,278 Other Grocery and Related Prod establishments

Safer than 29% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.0.

Grade F

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 17 Other Grocery and Related Prod employers in Arkansas.

Ft Smith Ar (124 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 6.0

Ft Smith Ar has more employees than the Other Grocery and Related Products Merch median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.0. 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	10.2	10.2	14	0	0
2021	6.3	6.3	7	1	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424490 · AR · Ft Smith

1,278 Other Grocery and Related Products Merchant Wholesalers 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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Larsen Beverage Corporation - Pleasant View	OGDEN, UT	8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	C020 Easton	EASTON, MD	8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Pierre - PI	PIERRE, SD	8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Orrville	ORRVILLE, OH	8.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE	HOT SPRINGS	HOT SPRINGS	124 FTE
STATE-SIZE	El Dorado (formerly El Dorado Packaging)	EL DORADO	124 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Wheeling Machine Products - Pine Bluff	PINE BLUFF	124 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Manufacturing	MONTICELLO	124 FTE
NAT-TCR	Village of Downs	Downs, IL	8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Sioux Falls CE	Sioux Falls, SD	8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Chandler Fashion Center	Chandler, AZ	8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	LaGrander's Hillside Dairy, Inc.	Stanley, WI	8.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Bel-Air Country Club	Los Angeles, CA	124 FTE
NAT-SIZE	311 Riggs Street	Bloomer, WI	124 FTE
NAT-SIZE	The Waterford Care Center	Chicago, IL	124 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Superior Traffic Control, LLC	Christiana, TN	124 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, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.