Ready-mix concrete manufacturing and distributing · Arkansas

Smith's Ready Mix

Nashville, AR · ~60 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Smith's Ready Mix runs at 56% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Ready-mix concrete manufacturing and distributing workplace, earning a grade B.

Smith's Ready Mix: 1.9 TCR = 56% of Ready-mix concrete manufacturing and distributing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Smith's Ready Mix safety composite

Smith's Ready Mix scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 84% 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

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% 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

Smith's Ready Mix: 0.0 → 3.7 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 3.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1× in 2023

Smith's Ready Mix's TCR rose 3.7 from 0.0 in 2019 to 3.7 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327320 · Nashville, AR AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.9 · 56% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #2/10
  • PHOTO BLT Companies
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~60 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: BLT Companies (0.0 TCR gap)

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Smith's Ready Mix in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Smith's Ready Mix averages 1.9 TCR (56% of the Ready-mix concrete manufacturing and distributing BLS benchmark).

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

Smith's Ready Mix TCR series: 2019=0 · 2023=3.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Smith's Ready Mix falls in its industry

1,316 Ready-mix concrete manufacturi establishments

Safer than 84% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

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 10 Ready-mix concrete manufacturi employers in Arkansas.

Smith's Ready Mix (60 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 33 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Smith's Ready Mix
Smith's Ready Mix (60 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 33 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Smith's Ready Mix has more employees than the Ready-mix concrete manufacturing and dis median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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
2023 3.7 1.9 2 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327320 · AR · Nashville

1,316 Ready-mix concrete manufacturing and distributing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,393 rated employers in Arkansas with headcount on file · 21 employers in Nashville, 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 BLT Companies 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Port of Vancouver 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR TX/NM - East TX Maintenance - 4597 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR ESE Texas RM Delivery 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Entergy LR 9th & LA 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE Steelworx Industrial Group, LLC 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE Freedom Fire Pro, LLC 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kerry Hot Springs 60 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nashville Plant 1,440 FTE
CITY-NEAR Husqvarna Forestry Products N.A. Inc. 759 FTE
CITY-NEAR Husqvarna Outdoor Products Lawn & Garden 652 FTE
CITY-NEAR Husqvarna Plastics 215 FTE
NAT-TCR JR Peters, Inc. 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Pawtucket, RI 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Shambaugh & Son LP 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Lowes Foods Corporate Office 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Paradigm Enterprises, Inc. 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE Polygal, Inc. 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pipe Valves, Inc. 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bradford Industries 60 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: 2023, 2019. 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.