General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) · Arkansas

Fts- Fort Smith

Fort Smith, AR · ~38 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fts- Fort Smith runs at 58% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) workplace, earning a grade B.

Fts- Fort Smith: 2.6 TCR = 58% of General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fts- Fort Smith safety composite

Fts- Fort Smith scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 90% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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).

B

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% 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%).

Fts- Fort Smith held a steady TCR band

Fts- Fort Smith's TCR held near 0.1 from 2.6 in 2022 to 2.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=2.6 · 2023=2.5 · 2024=2.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484122 · Fort Smith, AR AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.6 · 58% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #15/46
  • PHOTO UST
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~38 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: UST (0.0 TCR gap)

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Fts- Fort Smith in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fts- Fort Smith averages 2.6 TCR (58% of the General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) BLS benchmark).

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

Fts- Fort Smith TCR series: 2022=2.6 · 2023=2.5 · 2024=2.7 · BLS 4.5

Where Fts- Fort Smith falls in its industry

3,020 General freight trucking, long establishments

Safer than 87% 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 #15 safest of 46 General freight trucking, long employers in Arkansas.

Fts- Fort Smith (38 employees, TCR 2.6) 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 Fts- Fort Smith
Fts- Fort Smith (38 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Fts- Fort Smith has fewer employees than the General freight trucking, long-distance, median and a lower 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
2024 2.7 0.0 1 0 0
2023 2.5 2.5 1 0 0
2022 2.6 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484122 · AR · Fort Smith

3,020 General freight trucking, long-distance, less-than-truckload (LTL) 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 UST 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR CAN-ODFL 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR American Linehaul-EWR 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR foster 2.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Thompson Construction Group Inc Nucor JMS 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Alliance Utilities Inc 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Systems Plant Services, Inc.-BLY02 Hickman AR 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Evergreen Industrial Services - El Dorado 38 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 Quality Bakery 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Gotta Groove Records Cleveland 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Camarero Race Track, Corp. 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Equipment 2.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sparling Construction Company 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hood Container Jacksonville 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Midwest Renewable Energy 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hoffman Building Technologies, Inc - Charlotte 38 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: 2024, 2023, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.