Pallets, wood or wood and metal combination, manufacturing · Arkansas

General Pallets, Inc.

Fort Smith, AR · ~63 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
15.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

General Pallets, Inc. runs at 454% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Pallets, wood or wood and metal combination, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

General Pallets, Inc.: 15.0 TCR = 454% of Pallets, wood or wood and metal combination, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

General Pallets, Inc. safety composite

General Pallets, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 8%), 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).

F

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

−5.8

2016→2019

General Pallets, Inc. injury rate improved

General Pallets, Inc.'s TCR fell 5.8 from 22.6 in 2016 to 16.8 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2016 at 22.6 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.56× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=22.6 · 2017=8.3 · 2018=12.3 · 2019=16.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321920 · Fort Smith, AR ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 15.0 · 454% of ind

  • DART 8.4 DART
  • RANK #22/22
  • PHOTO Buckeye Diamond Logi…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 29 inj
  • SIZE ~63 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Buckeye Diamond Logistics - Lima (0.0 TCR gap)

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General Pallets, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows General Pallets, Inc. averages 15.0 TCR (454% of the Pallets, wood or wood and metal combination, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

General Pallets, Inc. TCR series: 2016=22.6 · 2017=8.3 · 2018=12.3 · 2019=16.8 · BLS 3.3

Where General Pallets, Inc. falls in its industry

952 Pallets, wood or wood and meta establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arkansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #22 safest of 22 Pallets, wood or wood and meta employers in Arkansas.

General Pallets, Inc. (63 employees, TCR 15.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.3 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate General Pallets, Inc.
General Pallets, Inc. (63 employees, TCR 15.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.3

General Pallets, Inc. has more employees than the Pallets, wood or wood and metal combinat median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.3. 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
2019 16.8 8.4 4 0 0
2018 12.3 6.8 9 0 0
2017 8.3 6.6 5 0 0
2016 22.6 16.4 11 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321920 · AR · Fort Smith

952 Pallets, wood or wood and metal combination, 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 Buckeye Diamond Logistics - Lima 14.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hammond Plant 15.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Girard Wood Products Orting 15.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR EDWARD L BAKER ENTERPRISES INC CORNING FACILITY 14.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE 7102110 FPL Big Cypress 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE Freyaldenhoven Mechanical 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lost Forty Brewing 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE NSA Arkansas 63 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 Plasidyne Eng. & Mfg. 15.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Silver Ridge Healthcare Center 15.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Bernard foods 15.0 TCR
NAT-TCR HG323 15.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE MRP Beavercreek 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Covanta Montgomery, Inc. - Transfer Station 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ft. Lauderdale Ready Mix Plant 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE 194 ABC Supply Co., Inc 63 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: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.