Cushions, carpet and rug, urethane and other foam plastics (except polystrene), manufacturing · Arkansas

Ft. Smith Foam

Fort Smith, AR · ~130 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ft. Smith Foam runs at 73% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Cushions, carpet and rug, urethane and other foam plastics (except polystrene), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Ft. Smith Foam: 2.4 TCR = 73% of Cushions, carpet and rug, urethane and other foam plastics (except polystrene), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ft. Smith Foam safety composite

Ft. Smith Foam scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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 Foam: 2.2 → 2.6 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 2.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2018

Ft. Smith Foam's TCR rose 0.4 from 2.2 in 2016 to 2.6 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326150 · Fort Smith, AR AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 73% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P62
  • PHOTO UFP Technologies - I…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~130 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: UFP Technologies - Iowa (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ft. Smith Foam in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ft. Smith Foam averages 2.4 TCR (73% of the Cushions, carpet and rug, urethane and other foam plastics (except polystrene), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Ft. Smith Foam TCR series: 2016=2.2 · 2018=2.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Ft. Smith Foam falls in its industry

474 Cushions, carpet and rug, uret establishments

Safer than 62% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Ft. Smith Foam (130 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Ft. Smith Foam
Ft. Smith Foam (130 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Ft. Smith Foam has more employees than the Cushions, carpet and rug, urethane and o median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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 2.6 0.0 6 0 0
2016 2.2 1.1 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326150 · AR · Fort Smith

474 Cushions, carpet and rug, urethane and other foam plastics (except polystrene), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,393 rated employers in Arkansas with headcount on file · 249 employers in Fort 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 UFP Technologies - Iowa 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR SwimWays NC 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Leggett & Platt Aurora 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Future Foam Inc. 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Diversified Construction & Design LLC, 130 FTE
STATE-SIZE Westrock Coffee Roasting 130 FTE
STATE-SIZE Idaho Timber of Carthage 130 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pipelife Jetstream 130 FTE
CITY-NEAR MERCY HOSPITAL FORT SMITH 1,944 FTE
CITY-NEAR ABB Motors and Mechanical, Inc. - Fort Smith 1,298 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fort Smith - 5713 RS Boreham Jr Street 985 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baptist Health Medical Center - Fort Smith 970 FTE
NAT-TCR Wilderness Resort & Hotel, Inc 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Design Manufacturing, LLC 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 4818-48180055-6290 Shelby View Dr.-Wc 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Liberty Carton - Texas 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE MOF 130 FTE
NAT-SIZE OCY - Central 130 FTE
NAT-SIZE PEC-Johnson City 130 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lav 3 130 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, 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.