Employer · Arkansas

Sparks Medical Center

Fort Smith, AR · ~78 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sparks Medical Center runs at 141% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade D.

Sparks Medical Center: 4.2 TCR = 141% of industry BLS 3.0 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sparks Medical Center safety composite

Sparks Medical Center scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
F 13.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Sparks Medical Center: 1.3 → 13.9 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 13.9 TCR · DART/TCR 3.3× in 2022

Sparks Medical Center's TCR rose 12.7 from 1.3 in 2018 to 13.9 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 3.3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722310 · Fort Smith, AR ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.2 · 141% of ind

  • DART 13.9 DART
  • RANK #52/80
  • PHOTO LifeQuest Nursing Ce…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~78 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: LifeQuest Nursing Center (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sparks Medical Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sparks Medical Center averages 4.2 TCR (141% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Sparks Medical Center TCR series: 2018=1.3 · 2019=1.3 · 2020=1.5 · 2021=3.1 · 2022=13.9 · BLS 3.0

Where Sparks Medical Center falls in its industry

6,952 industry establishments

Safer than 41% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arkansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #52 safest of 80 industry employers in Arkansas.

Sparks Medical Center (78 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Sparks Medical Center
Sparks Medical Center (78 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Sparks Medical Center has more employees than the industry median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2022 13.9 13.9 0 9 0
2021 3.1 1.5 2 0 0
2020 1.5 1.5 1 0 0
2019 1.3 1.3 1 0 0
2018 1.3 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722310 · AR · Fort Smith

6,952 industry 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 LifeQuest Nursing Center 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR SODEXO AT BETHANY COLLEGE 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR CHD CLUB 2 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR SODEXO AT USMC E MH FC65 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE The Source MO 78 FTE
STATE-SIZE Plum Point Energy Station 78 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lafferty Equipment Manufacturing Inc 78 FTE
STATE-SIZE EZ LOADER CUSTOM BOAT TRAILERS, INC. 78 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 Uncc Crown Commons 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR buybuy Baby Roseville 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Utopia Packing, LLC 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR ARCH Tuscaloosa 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Es-Pres Res Mc 78 FTE
NAT-SIZE Russell Harris Farms 78 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hamstra Heating & Cooling, Inc. 78 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bed Bath and Beyond Aventura 78 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. 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.