Trucking, general freight, long-distance, less-than-truckload (L · Arkansas

Ft. Smith

Ft. Smith, AR · ~71 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ft. Smith runs at 157% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Trucking, general freight, long-distance, less-than-truckload (L workplace, earning a grade D.

Ft. Smith: 7.1 TCR = 157% of Trucking, general freight, long-distance, less-than-truckload (L BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ft. Smith safety composite

Ft. Smith scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 34%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

−0.8

2017→2021

Ft. Smith injury rate improved

Ft. Smith's TCR fell 0.8 from 7.5 in 2017 to 6.7 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2017 at 7.5 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.47× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=7.5 · 2021=6.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484122 · Ft. Smith, AR ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.1 · 157% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK #40/46
  • PHOTO Toledo OH FXFE-TOL
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~71 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Toledo OH FXFE-TOL (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 7.1 TCR (157% of the Trucking, general freight, long-distance, less-than-truckload (L BLS benchmark).

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

Ft. Smith TCR series: 2017=7.5 · 2021=6.7 · BLS 4.5

Where Ft. Smith falls in its industry

3,020 Trucking, general freight, lon establishments

Safer than 34% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arkansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #40 safest of 46 Trucking, general freight, lon employers in Arkansas.

Ft. Smith (71 employees, TCR 7.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Ft. Smith
Ft. Smith (71 employees, TCR 7.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Ft. Smith has more employees than the Trucking, general freight, long-distance median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.6. 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
2021 6.7 3.3 2 0 0
2017 7.5 5.0 5 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484122 · AR · Ft. Smith

3,020 Trucking, general freight, long-distance, less-than-truckload (L 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 Toledo OH FXFE-TOL 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Oshkosh WI FXFE-OSK 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR DBQ 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6284-YR-621 YT 7.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Adams Land Company 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Central Arkansas Construction 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Staley Electric 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Northwest Controls Systems, Inc 71 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 National Restaurants Management Inc 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Pao Milhao LLC 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 2253-H4858 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR American Equipment & Trailer, Inc. Lubbock 7.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Aiken Pest Control, Inc 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alden Meadow Park Rehab and Healthcare 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Robert Bosch Battery Systyems LLC 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Richart Landscape Co. - 001 71 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: 2021, 2017. 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.