Unions, pipe, metal (except made from purchased pipe), manufacturing · Arkansas

Smith-Blair by Xylem

Texarkana, AR · ~290 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Smith-Blair by Xylem runs at 61% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Unions, pipe, metal (except made from purchased pipe), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Smith-Blair by Xylem: 2.0 TCR = 61% of Unions, pipe, metal (except made from purchased pipe), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Smith-Blair by Xylem safety composite

Smith-Blair by Xylem scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 69% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 36%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% 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%).

Smith-Blair by Xylem held a steady TCR band

Smith-Blair by Xylem's TCR held near 0.1 from 2.2 in 2022 to 2.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.84× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=2.2 · 2023=1.4 · 2024=2.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332919 · Texarkana, AR AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.0 · 61% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK P69
  • PHOTO Summit Packaging Sys…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~290 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Summit Packaging Systems Racine (0.0 TCR gap)

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Smith-Blair by Xylem in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Smith-Blair by Xylem averages 2.0 TCR (61% of the Unions, pipe, metal (except made from purchased pipe), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Smith-Blair by Xylem TCR series: 2022=2.2 · 2023=1.4 · 2024=2.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Smith-Blair by Xylem falls in its industry

100 Unions, pipe, metal (except ma establishments

Safer than 69% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Smith-Blair by Xylem (290 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 91 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 0200400600 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Smith-Blair by Xylem
Smith-Blair by Xylem (290 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 91 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Smith-Blair by Xylem has more employees than the Unions, pipe, metal (except made from pu median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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
2024 2.4 1.7 7 0 0
2023 1.4 1.1 4 0 0
2022 2.2 1.5 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332919 · AR · Texarkana

100 Unions, pipe, metal (except made from purchased pipe), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,393 rated employers in Arkansas with headcount on file · 44 employers in Texarkana, 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 Summit Packaging Systems Racine 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nor-Cal 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Franklin NH 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nelson Irrigation Corporation 2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE TDC 290 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tri-Lakes Services, Inc. 289 FTE
STATE-SIZE 128 291 FTE
STATE-SIZE Specialty Care 291 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cooper Tire & Rubber Texarkana Plant 1,744 FTE
CITY-NEAR Southern Refrigerated Transport 847 FTE
CITY-NEAR 468 361 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 468 327 FTE
NAT-TCR One Source Building Services, Inc. 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Principal Builders, Inc. 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Star Exhibits 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Clovernook Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Aeroguard LLC. 290 FTE
NAT-SIZE Accelore Group LLC 290 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corteva Agriscience - Pittsburg Operations 290 FTE
NAT-SIZE MZI Group Inc. 290 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: 2024, 2023, 2022. 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.