Steel mills · Arkansas

Gerdau Fort Smith Mill

Fort Smith, AR · ~543 workers · 4 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 Mill runs at 91% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Steel mills workplace, earning a grade C.

Gerdau Fort Smith Mill: 3.0 TCR = 91% of Steel mills BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gerdau Fort Smith Mill safety composite

Gerdau Fort Smith Mill scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 26%), 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% 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

−0.6

2019→2024

Gerdau Fort Smith Mill injury rate improved

Gerdau Fort Smith Mill's TCR fell 0.6 from 3.4 in 2019 to 2.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 3.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.85× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=3.4 · 2020=2.7 · 2022=3.1 · 2024=2.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 3.0 · 91% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #12/14
  • PHOTO Gerdau Fort Smith
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 70 inj
  • SIZE ~543 FTE

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

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Gerdau Fort Smith Mill in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gerdau Fort Smith Mill averages 3.0 TCR (91% of the Steel mills BLS benchmark).

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

Gerdau Fort Smith Mill TCR series: 2019=3.4 · 2020=2.7 · 2022=3.1 · 2024=2.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Gerdau Fort Smith Mill falls in its industry

416 Steel mills establishments

Safer than 46% 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 #12 safest of 14 Steel mills employers in Arkansas.

Gerdau Fort Smith Mill (543 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 Mill
Gerdau Fort Smith Mill (543 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 Mill has more employees than the Steel mills 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
2024 2.9 2.6 19 0 0
2022 3.1 2.9 20 0 0
2020 2.7 1.9 13 0 0
2019 3.4 2.4 18 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331110 · AR · Fort Smith

416 Steel mills 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 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR IronUnits LLC 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Granite City Works 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR I/N Tek & Kote 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Gerber Products Co 543 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 7842 543 FTE
STATE-SIZE AR189 Gurdon Plywood 542 FTE
STATE-SIZE 5260 545 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 Chapin SpreaderDivision 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Sangaree Middle School 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Boulder Bluff Elementary School 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Outdoor Creations Inc. 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Division 20 543 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nightingale's Nursing & Attendants 543 FTE
NAT-SIZE HGCORP 543 FTE
NAT-SIZE Broadway Office Complex 543 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, 2022, 2020, 2019. 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.