Nuts, salted, roasted, cooked, canned, manufacturing · Arkansas

Planters - Fort Smith

Fort Smith, AR · ~300 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Planters - Fort Smith runs at 35% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Nuts, salted, roasted, cooked, canned, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Planters - Fort Smith: 1.4 TCR = 35% of Nuts, salted, roasted, cooked, canned, manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Planters - Fort Smith safety composite

Planters - Fort Smith scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 81% 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).

C

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Planters - Fort Smith: 0.7 → 2.2 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 2.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.1× in 2020

Planters - Fort Smith's TCR rose 1.6 from 0.7 in 2019 to 2.2 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311911 · Fort Smith, AR AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.4 · 35% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #4/4
  • PHOTO Universal Blanchers,…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~300 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Universal Blanchers, dba Olam Edible Nuts Sylvester Facility (0.0 TCR gap)

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Planters - Fort Smith in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Planters - Fort Smith averages 1.4 TCR (35% of the Nuts, salted, roasted, cooked, canned, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Planters - Fort Smith TCR series: 2019=0.7 · 2020=2.2 · BLS 4.1

Where Planters - Fort Smith falls in its industry

150 Nuts, salted, roasted, cooked, establishments

Safer than 81% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arkansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 4 Nuts, salted, roasted, cooked, employers in Arkansas.

Planters - Fort Smith (300 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 02,0004,0006,0008,00010,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Planters - Fort Smith
Planters - Fort Smith (300 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Planters - Fort Smith has more employees than the Nuts, salted, roasted, cooked, canned, m median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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
2020 2.2 1.6 7 0 0
2019 0.7 0.7 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311911 · AR · Fort Smith

150 Nuts, salted, roasted, cooked, canned, manufacturing 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 Universal Blanchers, dba Olam Edible Nuts Sylvester Facility 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR SunGold Horace 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sylvester Plant 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Planters Peanuts 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Planters - Ft. Smith Arkansas Plant 300 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6801 300 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southern Bakeries, LLC 299 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 128 301 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 South Metro 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR OAK Oakland 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Ross store 701 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 0000000039 Quickchek Food Stores 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE GOJO Wooster Campus 300 FTE
NAT-SIZE Aluminum Precision Products Susan 300 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cal Cartage Warehousing & Transloading LLC-Hwy 25 & 307 300 FTE
NAT-SIZE Majestic Bluffs 300 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: 2020, 2019. 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.