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

Planters - Ft. Smith Arkansas Plant

Name: Planters - Ft. Smith Arkansas Plant Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Fort Smith, AR · ~300 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 0.9
Avg TCR: 4.1
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Planters - Ft. Smith Arkansas Plant runs at 22% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Nuts, salted, roasted, cooked, canned, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Planters - Ft. Smith Arkansas Plant: 0.9 TCR = 22% of Nuts, salted, roasted, cooked, canned, manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Planters - Ft. Smith Arkansas Plant safety composite

Planters - Ft. Smith Arkansas Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 93% 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).

75/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): A 0.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 93% of industry peers
DART rate: C 0.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.4

2017→2018

Planters - Ft. Smith Arkansas Plant injury rate improved

Planters - Ft. Smith Arkansas Plant's TCR fell 0.4 from 1.1 in 2017 to 0.7 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 1.1 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=1.1 · 2018=0.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 22% of ind

DART 0.4 DART
RANK #2/4
PHOTO Nutkao USA
BOOK 2y book
INJ 5 inj
SIZE ~300 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Nutkao USA (0.0 TCR gap)

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0.9
Nutkao USA

0.9
Modesto Specia

0.9
Wyoming 3300 M

0.9
Hormel Foods C

0.8

What this shows Planters - Ft. Smith Arkansas Plant averages 0.9 TCR (22% of the Nuts, salted, roasted, cooked, canned, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Planters - Ft. Smith Arkansas Plant TCR series: 2017=1.1 · 2018=0.7 · BLS 4.1

Where Planters - Ft. Smith Arkansas Plant falls in its industry

150 Nuts, salted, roasted, cooked, establishments

Safer than 93% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arkansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 4 Nuts, salted, roasted, cooked, employers in Arkansas.

Planters - Ft. Smith Arkansas Plant (300 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Planters - Ft. Smith Arkansas Plant 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
2018	0.7	0.4	2	0	0
2017	1.1	0.8	3	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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Nutkao USA	BATTLEBORO, NC	0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Modesto Specialty Food Ingredients	MODESTO, CA	0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Wyoming 3300 Manufacturig Facility	WYOMING, MI	0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Hormel Foods Corporation LLC	FRESNO, CA	0.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Planters - Fort Smith	FORT SMITH	300 FTE
STATE-SIZE	6801	BENTONVILLE	300 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Southern Bakeries, LLC	HOPE	299 FTE
STATE-SIZE	WM 128	JONESBORO	301 FTE
CITY-NEAR	MERCY HOSPITAL FORT SMITH	Fort Smith	1,944 FTE
CITY-NEAR	ABB Motors and Mechanical, Inc. - Fort Smith	Fort Smith	1,298 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Fort Smith - 5713 RS Boreham Jr Street	Fort Smith	985 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Baptist Health Medical Center - Fort Smith	Fort Smith	970 FTE
NAT-TCR	Schilli Corp	Fenton, MO	0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	Longhorn Plant	Saginaw, TX	0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	Memorial Hermann Medical Group	Houston, TX	0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	Certech: Wood-Ridge, NJ	Wood-Ridge, NJ	0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE	USDA/ARS/WRRC	Albany, CA	300 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Kate Spade Corporate NJ	N. Bergen, NJ	300 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Westwood Hills Nursing & Rehab	Wilkesboro, NC	300 FTE
NAT-SIZE	University Mechanical and Engineering Contractors Inc. AZ	Tempe, AZ	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: 2018, 2017. 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.