Pipe, metal, merchant wholesalers · Arkansas

Ryerson - Fort Smith

Fort Smith, AR · ~25 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.4
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ryerson - Fort Smith runs at 246% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Pipe, metal, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Ryerson - Fort Smith: 5.4 TCR = 246% of Pipe, metal, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ryerson - Fort Smith safety composite

Ryerson - Fort Smith scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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).

F

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
F 12.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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

Ryerson - Fort Smith: 0.0 → 19.2 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 19.2 TCR · DART/TCR 2.36× in 2022

Ryerson - Fort Smith's TCR rose 19.2 from 0.0 in 2016 to 19.2 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 2.36× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423510 · Fort Smith, AR ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 5.4 · 246% of ind

  • DART 12.8 DART
  • RANK #9/18
  • PHOTO Austin
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Austin (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ryerson - Fort Smith in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ryerson - Fort Smith averages 5.4 TCR (246% of the Pipe, metal, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Ryerson - Fort Smith TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=8.1 · 2018=0 · 2019=5.2 · 2020=5.5 · 2021=0 · 2022=19.2 · BLS 2.2

Where Ryerson - Fort Smith falls in its industry

1,299 Pipe, metal, merchant wholesal establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arkansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 18 Pipe, metal, merchant wholesal employers in Arkansas.

Ryerson - Fort Smith (25 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Ryerson - Fort Smith
Ryerson - Fort Smith (25 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Ryerson - Fort Smith has fewer employees than the Pipe, metal, merchant wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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
2022 19.2 12.8 3 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 5.5 5.5 1 0 0
2019 5.2 5.2 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 8.1 4.0 2 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423510 · AR · Fort Smith

1,299 Pipe, metal, merchant wholesalers 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 Austin 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR State Steel Supply Company 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Catoosa 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ulbrich of Illinois 5.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE 1300-Hatchery 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Carroll Electric - Pea Ridge 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE North Arkansas Electric Cooperative - Ash Flat 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE JL Bryson, Inc. 25 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 Bodycote Thermal Processing, Inc. - Livonia 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR ATW-ODFL 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR HGC Framing, LLC 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Walsh Arlington 5.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bartlett Milling Company, L.P. - Coffeyville 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Br USA, LLC 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Goodwill Industries of the Valleys, Inc. Cave Spring (22) 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cockerham's #4 25 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 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.