Employer · Arkansas

VBZ

Fort Smith, AR · ~437 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

VBZ runs at 86% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical industry workplace, earning a grade C.

VBZ: 2.9 TCR = 86% of industry BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

VBZ safety composite

VBZ scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 59% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 28%), 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 54% 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

VBZ: 2.5 → 4.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.9× in 2024

VBZ's TCR rose 2.0 from 2.5 in 2020 to 4.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.9× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311615 · Fort Smith, AR AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.9 · 86% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #31/69
  • PHOTO Heavener Processing …
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 50 inj
  • SIZE ~437 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Heavener Processing Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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VBZ in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows VBZ averages 2.9 TCR (86% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

VBZ TCR series: 2020=2.5 · 2021=3.4 · 2022=2.6 · 2023=1.3 · 2024=4.5 · BLS 3.3

Where VBZ falls in its industry

509 industry establishments

Safer than 59% 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 #31 safest of 69 industry employers in Arkansas.

VBZ (437 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 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 05001,0001,5002,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate VBZ
VBZ (437 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 employees and a TCR of 3.5

VBZ has fewer employees than the industry median and a lower 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
2024 4.5 2.6 7 0 0
2023 1.3 1.3 6 0 0
2022 2.6 0.9 12 0 0
2021 3.4 1.1 15 0 0
2020 2.5 0.7 10 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311615 · AR · Fort Smith

509 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 Heavener Processing Plant 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR VPGC, LLC 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Peco Foods Inc.-Poultry Processing Plant 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Selbyville Processing 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Arkansas Plant 2 437 FTE
STATE-SIZE Northwest AR Hospitals - Bentonville 437 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4108 436 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 2 436 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 USA College Park 4340 Global Gtwy Connector 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Patriot Energy Solutions Corp 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR miyama USA, Inc. 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Innovative Refrigeration Systems, Inc. 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE New York Headquarters 437 FTE
NAT-SIZE Caroc - Rocklin Center 437 FTE
NAT-SIZE Carmel Valley Ranch 437 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fike Corporation 437 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, 2021, 2020. 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.