Chickens, processing, fresh, frozen, canned, or cooked (except baby and pet food) · Arkansas

OKF Fort Smith Broilers

Fort Smith, AR · ~31 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

OKF Fort Smith Broilers runs at 138% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Chickens, processing, fresh, frozen, canned, or cooked (except baby and pet food) workplace, earning a grade D.

OKF Fort Smith Broilers: 4.5 TCR = 138% of Chickens, processing, fresh, frozen, canned, or cooked (except baby and pet food) BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

OKF Fort Smith Broilers safety composite

OKF Fort Smith Broilers scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 28%), 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

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 54% 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

OKF Fort Smith Broilers: 3.9 → 5.2 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 5.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.57× in 2018

OKF Fort Smith Broilers's TCR rose 1.3 from 3.9 in 2017 to 5.2 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.57× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311615 · Fort Smith, AR ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.5 · 138% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #44/69
  • PHOTO Brakebush Irving, Inc.
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~31 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Brakebush Irving, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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OKF Fort Smith Broilers in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows OKF Fort Smith Broilers averages 4.5 TCR (138% of the Chickens, processing, fresh, frozen, canned, or cooked (except baby and pet food) BLS benchmark).

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

OKF Fort Smith Broilers TCR series: 2017=3.9 · 2018=5.2 · BLS 3.3

Where OKF Fort Smith Broilers falls in its industry

509 Chickens, processing, fresh, f establishments

Safer than 36% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arkansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #44 safest of 69 Chickens, processing, fresh, f employers in Arkansas.

OKF Fort Smith Broilers (31 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 05001,0001,5002,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate OKF Fort Smith Broilers
OKF Fort Smith Broilers (31 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 employees and a TCR of 3.5

OKF Fort Smith Broilers has fewer employees than the Chickens, processing, fresh, frozen, can median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 5.2 2.6 2 0 0
2017 3.9 3.9 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311615 · AR · Fort Smith

509 Chickens, processing, fresh, frozen, canned, or cooked (except baby and pet food) 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 Brakebush Irving, Inc. 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Red Bird Farms Dist. Co. 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pilgrims 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Decatur processing plant 4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE RiceTec Arkansas Station 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Star City Hatchery 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bieker Electric, Inc. 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Systems Plant Services, Inc.-BRS Osceola, AR 31 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 Briarwood Health Care 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Cloverleaf Cold Storage-Sanford 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Brian Center Health & Rehabilitation/Statesville 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Selinsgrove Institutional Casework 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE HCC 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE 34-TOLEDO 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Newark 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Westbrook Dental Lab 31 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.