General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) · Arkansas

SMS Trucking, Inc.

Cabot, AR · ~27 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

SMS Trucking, Inc. runs at 122% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) workplace, earning a grade D.

SMS Trucking, Inc.: 5.5 TCR = 122% of General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

SMS Trucking, Inc. safety composite

SMS Trucking, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 21%), 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

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

−5.1

2018→2020

SMS Trucking, Inc. injury rate improved

SMS Trucking, Inc.'s TCR fell 5.1 from 8.1 in 2018 to 3.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 8.1 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.54× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=8.1 · 2020=3.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Cabot, AR ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 122% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK #70/73
  • PHOTO United Transport, Inc.
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: United Transport, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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SMS Trucking, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows SMS Trucking, Inc. averages 5.5 TCR (122% of the General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) BLS benchmark).

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

SMS Trucking, Inc. TCR series: 2018=8.1 · 2020=3 · BLS 4.5

Where SMS Trucking, Inc. falls in its industry

3,252 General freight trucking, long establishments

Safer than 21% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arkansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #70 safest of 73 General freight trucking, long employers in Arkansas.

SMS Trucking, Inc. (27 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate SMS Trucking, Inc.
SMS Trucking, Inc. (27 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

SMS Trucking, Inc. has fewer employees than the General freight trucking, long-distance, median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 3.0 3.0 1 0 0
2018 8.1 8.1 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · AR · Cabot

3,252 General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,393 rated employers in Arkansas with headcount on file · 22 employers in Cabot, 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 United Transport, Inc. 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kansas City Terminal 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR General Freight Trucking 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR ATL 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE 1301-Growout-Live Operations 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Waldron Hatchery 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Grannis/Broken Bow Growout 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dardanelle Growout 27 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2587 476 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2587 417 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pinnacle Structures, Inc. 179 FTE
CITY-NEAR 025-00613 128 FTE
NAT-TCR REN030 Hatfield 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Vantage Equipment LLC, Syracuse Branch 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 1016 Baytown, TX 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Hampton Inn West Palm Beach 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE 108-Tri Supply co 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Turner at Solvay Chemicals Inc. La Porte TX 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mission Trace MT 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE DGS Aviation Services : IAH - Houston 27 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, 2018. 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.