Mini-mills, steel · Arkansas

Gerdau Fort Smith

Fort Smith, AR · ~532 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Gerdau Fort Smith runs at 91% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Mini-mills, steel workplace, earning a grade C.

Gerdau Fort Smith: 3.0 TCR = 91% of Mini-mills, steel BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gerdau Fort Smith safety composite

Gerdau Fort Smith scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 40%), 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)
D 3 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

−1.0

2016→2018

Gerdau Fort Smith injury rate improved

Gerdau Fort Smith's TCR fell 1.0 from 3.5 in 2016 to 2.5 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 3.5 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.5 · 2018=2.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331110 · Fort Smith, AR AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.0 · 91% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #11/14
  • PHOTO Gerdau Fort Smith Mill
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 29 inj
  • SIZE ~532 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Gerdau Fort Smith Mill (0.0 TCR gap)

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Gerdau Fort Smith in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gerdau Fort Smith averages 3.0 TCR (91% of the Mini-mills, steel BLS benchmark).

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

Gerdau Fort Smith TCR series: 2016=3.5 · 2018=2.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Gerdau Fort Smith falls in its industry

416 Mini-mills, steel establishments

Safer than 47% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arkansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 14 Mini-mills, steel employers in Arkansas.

Gerdau Fort Smith (532 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 155 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Gerdau Fort Smith
Gerdau Fort Smith (532 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 155 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Gerdau Fort Smith has more employees than the Mini-mills, steel median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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 2.5 1.5 15 0 0
2016 3.5 1.6 14 6 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331110 · AR · Fort Smith

416 Mini-mills, steel 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 Gerdau Fort Smith Mill 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Granite City Works 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR IronUnits LLC 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR ArcelorMittal Weirton 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Anchor Packaging Inc. Paragould 529 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 5260 535 FTE
STATE-SIZE Denali Water Solutions 537 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gerdau - 01 538 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 MB-Rome 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Enterprise Lubbock Admin 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Alpin Haus 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR CCC 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Southeast Georgia Health System Cooperative Health Services, Inc. 532 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America, Inc. 532 FTE
NAT-SIZE Therapeutic Resources Physical, Occupational and Speech Therapy Services, LLP 532 FTE
NAT-SIZE Townline 532 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.