Blast furnace slag processing · Arkansas

Nucor Yamato Blytheville

Blytheville, AR · ~54 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Nucor Yamato Blytheville runs at 72% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Blast furnace slag processing workplace, earning a grade B.

Nucor Yamato Blytheville: 2.4 TCR = 72% of Blast furnace slag processing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nucor Yamato Blytheville safety composite

Nucor Yamato Blytheville scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 35%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Nucor Yamato Blytheville: 1.9 → 3.4 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 3.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.72× in 2018

Nucor Yamato Blytheville's TCR rose 1.5 from 1.9 in 2016 to 3.4 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.72× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327992 · Blytheville, AR AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 72% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #3/4
  • PHOTO TMS Norfolk
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~54 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: TMS Norfolk (0.0 TCR gap)

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Nucor Yamato Blytheville in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Nucor Yamato Blytheville averages 2.4 TCR (72% of the Blast furnace slag processing BLS benchmark).

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

Nucor Yamato Blytheville TCR series: 2016=1.9 · 2017=1.8 · 2018=3.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Nucor Yamato Blytheville falls in its industry

97 Blast furnace slag processing establishments

Safer than 42% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arkansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 4 Blast furnace slag processing employers in Arkansas.

Nucor Yamato Blytheville (54 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 41 employees and a TCR of 1.9 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 050100150200250 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Nucor Yamato Blytheville
Nucor Yamato Blytheville (54 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 41 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Nucor Yamato Blytheville has more employees than the Blast furnace slag processing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. 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 3.4 1.7 2 0 0
2017 1.8 1.8 1 0 0
2016 1.9 1.9 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327992 · AR · Blytheville

97 Blast furnace slag processing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,393 rated employers in Arkansas with headcount on file · 59 employers in Blytheville, 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 TMS Norfolk 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Clariant Corporation 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR TMS Petersburg 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR AluChem Inc. 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Layne Christensen 2015 South Main Street 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gary Carpenter Construction Co. Inc. 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE B&N Clearing and Environmental LLC 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE TNM Lumberworks of Ark, Inc 54 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nucor Yamato Steel 993 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nucor-Yamato Steel Co, Inc. 987 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nucor Steel Arkansas 845 FTE
CITY-NEAR MAVERICK TUBE CORPORATION 503 FTE
NAT-TCR Eastmont Towers 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Powertech America 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR NA-US-VT-South Burlington-Bowdoin Street 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR FTI Industries 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Fort Dodge Service Center 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE D & J Electric 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Solaris Senior Living of Stuart, LLC 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE MaineGeneral Medical Center - Winthrop Health Center 54 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, 2017, 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.