Courier Services Except by Air · Arkansas

Ft. Smith (Arfos)

Ft. Smith, AR · ~117 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.1
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ft. Smith (Arfos) runs at 125% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Courier Services Except by Air workplace, earning a grade D.

Ft. Smith (Arfos): 8.1 TCR = 125% of Courier Services Except by Air BLS 6.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ft. Smith (Arfos) safety composite

Ft. Smith (Arfos) scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 49%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 8.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

DART rate
D 5.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% 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 (Arfos): 5.0 → 11.8 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 11.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.73× in 2018

Ft. Smith (Arfos)'s TCR rose 6.7 from 5.0 in 2016 to 11.8 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.73× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 492110 · Ft. Smith, AR ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 8.1 · 125% of ind

  • DART 5.9 DART
  • RANK #43/70
  • PHOTO FedEx 261 YELLOWBIRD…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~117 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: FedEx 261 YELLOWBIRD RD (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ft. Smith (Arfos) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ft. Smith (Arfos) averages 8.1 TCR (125% of the Courier Services Except by Air BLS benchmark).

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

Ft. Smith (Arfos) TCR series: 2016=5 · 2017=7.5 · 2018=11.8 · BLS 6.5

Where Ft. Smith (Arfos) falls in its industry

6,679 Courier Services Except by Air establishments

Safer than 49% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 8.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arkansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #43 safest of 70 Courier Services Except by Air employers in Arkansas.

Ft. Smith (Arfos) (117 employees, TCR 8.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 8.0 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Ft. Smith (Arfos)
Ft. Smith (Arfos) (117 employees, TCR 8.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 8.0

Ft. Smith (Arfos) has more employees than the Courier Services Except by Air median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 8.0. 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
2018 11.8 5.9 10 0 0
2017 7.5 5.0 5 1 0
2016 5.0 3.8 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

492110 · AR · Ft. Smith

6,679 Courier Services Except by Air 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 FedEx 261 YELLOWBIRD RD 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - DLI6 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - BFI8 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR CAZA DYY5 8.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE SFI WET 117 FTE
STATE-SIZE SMPKG 117 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2807-2534 117 FTE
STATE-SIZE 025-00469 117 FTE
CITY-NEAR ARK 391 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ft. Smith Metal 172 FTE
CITY-NEAR ARFOS - FT. SMITH 149 FTE
CITY-NEAR FT. SMITH AR 108 FTE
NAT-TCR Laredo (Txreo) 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Giant Eagle #3476 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-Swy 0020 2559 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Brookdale North Ogden 8.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Opelika (Alope) 117 FTE
NAT-SIZE Merced Center (Camer) 117 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6400-Swy 0024 0043 117 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wingate at Sudbury 117 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, 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.