General medical and surgical hospitals · Arkansas

Mercy Hospital Fort Smith

Fort Smith, AR · ~1,944 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Mercy Hospital Fort Smith runs at 80% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical General medical and surgical hospitals workplace, earning a grade B.

Mercy Hospital Fort Smith: 6.0 TCR = 80% of General medical and surgical hospitals BLS 7.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Mercy Hospital Fort Smith safety composite

Mercy Hospital Fort Smith scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 59% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 37%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Mercy Hospital Fort Smith: 6.1 → 7.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 7.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.22× in 2024

Mercy Hospital Fort Smith's TCR rose 1.1 from 6.1 in 2018 to 7.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.22× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · Fort Smith, AR AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade B · TCR 6.0 · 80% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #61/85
  • PHOTO Sentara Williamsburg…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 652 inj
  • SIZE ~1,944 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sentara Williamsburg Regional Medical Center (0.0 TCR gap)

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Mercy Hospital Fort Smith in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Mercy Hospital Fort Smith averages 6.0 TCR (80% of the General medical and surgical hospitals BLS benchmark).

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

Mercy Hospital Fort Smith TCR series: 2018=6.1 · 2019=7 · 2020=6.3 · 2021=4.6 · 2022=4.2 · 2023=6.5 · 2024=7.3 · BLS 7.5

Where Mercy Hospital Fort Smith falls in its industry

6,862 General medical and surgical h establishments

Safer than 37% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arkansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #61 safest of 85 General medical and surgical h employers in Arkansas.

Mercy Hospital Fort Smith (1,944 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2 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 02,0004,0006,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Mercy Hospital Fort Smith
Mercy Hospital Fort Smith (1,944 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Mercy Hospital Fort Smith has more employees than the General medical and surgical hospitals median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.2. 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 7.3 1.3 103 16 0
2023 6.5 1.4 101 0 0
2022 4.2 0.8 70 0 0
2021 4.6 1.7 69 8 0
2020 6.3 1.8 95 18 0
2019 7.0 1.9 111 10 0
2018 6.1 1.5 103 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · AR · Fort Smith

6,862 General medical and surgical hospitals 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 Sentara Williamsburg Regional Medical Center 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR ININD110 ASCENSION ST VINCENT CARMEL 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR HARTFORD HOSPITAL 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Baptist Health System Jacksonville Baptist Medical Center 6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE St. Bernards Hospital 1,975 FTE
STATE-SIZE CHI- ST Vincent Infirmary-Little Rock 1,912 FTE
STATE-SIZE Washington Regional Medical System 1,989 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2643-03010001-030101 1,792 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
CITY-NEAR Rheem Manufacturing Fort Smith 888 FTE
NAT-TCR 10103 Roosevelt Square 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR West Suburban Nursing & Rehabilitation Center 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Nijiya Market - SA 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Cincinnati OH 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Good Samaritan Hospital 1,944 FTE
NAT-SIZE Charlton Memorial Hospital 1,944 FTE
NAT-SIZE Loma Linda University Childrens Hospital 1,944 FTE
NAT-SIZE Upsco Airline (Kyaln) 1,944 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.