Hot forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished · Arkansas

Gerdau Paragould Rail Products

Paragould, AR · ~27 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Gerdau Paragould Rail Products runs at 45% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Hot forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished workplace, earning a grade A.

Gerdau Paragould Rail Products: 1.5 TCR = 45% of Hot forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gerdau Paragould Rail Products safety composite

Gerdau Paragould Rail Products scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 88% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

78/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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%).

Gerdau Paragould Rail Products held a steady TCR band

Gerdau Paragould Rail Products's TCR held near 0.3 from 3.6 in 2018 to 3.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 3.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=3.6 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=3.5 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=3.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332111 · Paragould, AR AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.5 · 45% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P88
  • PHOTO AFGLOBAL -AMERIFORGE
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: AFGLOBAL -AMERIFORGE (0.0 TCR gap)

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Gerdau Paragould Rail Products in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gerdau Paragould Rail Products averages 1.5 TCR (45% of the Hot forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished BLS benchmark).

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

Gerdau Paragould Rail Products TCR series: 2018=3.6 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=3.5 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=3.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Gerdau Paragould Rail Products falls in its industry

241 Hot forgings made from purchas establishments

Safer than 88% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Gerdau Paragould Rail Products (27 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.0 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Gerdau Paragould Rail Products
Gerdau Paragould Rail Products (27 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.0

Gerdau Paragould Rail Products has fewer employees than the Hot forgings made from purchased iron or median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.0. 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 3.3 0.0 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 3.5 0.0 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 3.6 0.0 0 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332111 · AR · Paragould

241 Hot forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,393 rated employers in Arkansas with headcount on file · 61 employers in Paragould, 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 AFGLOBAL -AMERIFORGE 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Scot Forge - Spring Grove 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Texas Metal Works 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Scot Forge - Clinton 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE 1301-Growout-Live Operations 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Waldron Hatchery 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Grannis/Broken Bow Growout 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dardanelle Growout 27 FTE
CITY-NEAR DRiV Automotive 1,088 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tenneco 1,082 FTE
CITY-NEAR DRiV 1,018 FTE
CITY-NEAR Utility Trailer Manufacturing Company - Paragould, Arkansas 717 FTE
NAT-TCR La Porte DC 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Truvant 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Colonie Ny Distribution Center 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR True Up Companies LLC - LCH 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Dothan Hatchery 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store 1342 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE GCM, Inc. 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Axis Solar 27 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.