Other Grocery and Related Products Merchant Wholesalers · Arkansas

Ft. Smith Ar

Ft. Smith, AR · ~108 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.9
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ft. Smith Ar runs at 357% 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: 7.9 TCR = 357% of Other Grocery and Related Products Merchant Wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y 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 32%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% 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

−1.7

2016→2020

Ft. Smith Ar injury rate improved

Ft. Smith Ar's TCR fell 1.7 from 9.1 in 2016 to 7.4 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 11.6 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.84× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=9.1 · 2017=3.5 · 2018=11.6 · 2019=7.6 · 2020=7.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 7.9 · 357% of ind

  • DART 6.6 DART
  • RANK #12/17
  • PHOTO LIVINGSTON LA
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 46 inj
  • SIZE ~108 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: LIVINGSTON LA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ft. Smith Ar in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ft. Smith Ar averages 7.9 TCR (357% of the Other Grocery and Related Products Merchant Wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Ft. Smith Ar TCR series: 2016=9.1 · 2017=3.5 · 2018=11.6 · 2019=7.6 · 2020=7.4 · BLS 2.2

Where Ft. Smith Ar falls in its industry

1,278 Other Grocery and Related Prod establishments

Safer than 33% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arkansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 17 Other Grocery and Related Prod employers in Arkansas.

Ft. Smith Ar (108 employees, TCR 7.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 6.0 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Ft. Smith Ar
Ft. Smith Ar (108 employees, TCR 7.9) 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
2020 7.4 6.6 9 0 0
2019 7.6 7.6 9 0 0
2018 11.6 10.0 14 0 0
2017 3.5 3.5 4 0 0
2016 9.1 8.2 10 0 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 · 12 employers in Ft. 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 LIVINGSTON LA 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR TYLER TX 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Zook Molasses Co. 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sidari's Italian Foods 7.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE CONWAY OFFICE & FIELD 108 FTE
STATE-SIZE OKF Corporate Offices 108 FTE
STATE-SIZE Alpha Packaging 108 FTE
STATE-SIZE Arkansas 108 FTE
CITY-NEAR ARK 391 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ft. Smith Metal 172 FTE
CITY-NEAR ARFOS - FT. SMITH 149 FTE
CITY-NEAR FT. SMITH (ARFOS) 117 FTE
NAT-TCR Great Lakes Management The Glenn Hopkins Terraces 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR PCS Wireless, LLC 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Southeast Food 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Parker Place 7.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Garden Ranch Family Center 108 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rochling GLastic Composites 108 FTE
NAT-SIZE Webco Manor 108 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1808 Glenview, Inc. 108 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: 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.