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

OKF Newlon Warehouse

Fort Smith, AR · ~44 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

OKF Newlon Warehouse runs at 55% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Chickens, processing, fresh, frozen, canned, or cooked (except baby and pet food) workplace, earning a grade B.

OKF Newlon Warehouse: 1.8 TCR = 55% of Chickens, processing, fresh, frozen, canned, or cooked (except baby and pet food) BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

OKF Newlon Warehouse safety composite

OKF Newlon Warehouse scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 27%), 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).

C

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% 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 Newlon Warehouse: 1.0 → 2.6 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 2.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.45× in 2018

OKF Newlon Warehouse's TCR rose 1.6 from 1.0 in 2017 to 2.6 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.45× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311615 · Fort Smith, AR AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.8 · 55% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #12/69
  • PHOTO Smithfield St. James…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~44 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Smithfield St. James, MN (0.0 TCR gap)

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OKF Newlon Warehouse in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows OKF Newlon Warehouse averages 1.8 TCR (55% 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 Newlon Warehouse TCR series: 2017=1 · 2018=2.6 · BLS 3.3

Where OKF Newlon Warehouse falls in its industry

509 Chickens, processing, fresh, f establishments

Safer than 81% 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 #12 safest of 69 Chickens, processing, fresh, f employers in Arkansas.

OKF Newlon Warehouse (44 employees, TCR 1.8) 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 Newlon Warehouse
OKF Newlon Warehouse (44 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 employees and a TCR of 3.5

OKF Newlon Warehouse has fewer employees than the Chickens, processing, fresh, frozen, can median and a lower 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 2.6 2.6 1 0 0
2017 1.0 1.0 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 Smithfield St. James, MN 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Processing plant 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR J & J Enterprises, LLC 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lumber Bridge Processing 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Childress Gin and Elevator Company 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE River Stone Construction, Inc. 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE ECC:EC254 - EC254-Van Buren, AR-0300 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Peco Foods Inc.-Feedmill 44 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 AH4R - Dallas 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Starbucks Coffee Company York Pa 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Nelson Tree Service LLC 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Shared Services Group 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE RGH Enterprises - Portland, OR 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Presence Resurrection Retirement Community 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Piggly Wiggly (#358) 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fas Mfe 44 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.