Food Services · Arkansas

500275500 Univ. of Central Ark

Conway, AR · ~180 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
23.4
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

500275500 Univ. of Central Ark runs at 780% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Food Services workplace, earning a grade F.

500275500 Univ. of Central Ark: 23.4 TCR = 780% of Food Services BLS 3.0 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

500275500 Univ. of Central Ark safety composite

500275500 Univ. of Central Ark scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 1%), 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

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 23.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 21.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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

500275500 Univ. of Central Ark: 3.4 → 43.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 43.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.93× in 2024

500275500 Univ. of Central Ark's TCR rose 40.1 from 3.4 in 2023 to 43.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.93× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722310 · Conway, AR ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 23.4 · 780% of ind

  • DART 21.7 DART
  • RANK #80/80
  • PHOTO 500471500 WESTERN KE…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~180 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 500471500 WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIV. (0.0 TCR gap)

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500275500 Univ. of Central Ark in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 500275500 Univ. of Central Ark averages 23.4 TCR (780% of the Food Services BLS benchmark).

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

500275500 Univ. of Central Ark TCR series: 2023=3.4 · 2024=43.4 · BLS 3.0

Where 500275500 Univ. of Central Ark falls in its industry

6,952 Food Services establishments

Safer than 1% 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 #80 safest of 80 Food Services employers in Arkansas.

500275500 Univ. of Central Ark (180 employees, TCR 23.4) 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate 500275500 Univ. of Central Ark
500275500 Univ. of Central Ark (180 employees, TCR 23.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5

500275500 Univ. of Central Ark has more employees than the Food Services 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
2024 43.4 21.7 4 0 0
2023 3.4 1.1 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722310 · AR · Conway

6,952 Food Services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,393 rated employers in Arkansas with headcount on file · 124 employers in Conway, 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 500471500 WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIV. 23.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 500101500 MONMOUTH COLLEGE 23.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trinity Services Group - St. Tammany 23.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 500023000 ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY 23.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Shippers Products 180 FTE
STATE-SIZE General Cable 180 FTE
STATE-SIZE Matthews international searcy bronze 180 FTE
STATE-SIZE North Little Rock 180 FTE
CITY-NEAR Conway Regional Health System 1,682 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nabholz Construction Corporation 1,267 FTE
CITY-NEAR Virco Manufacturing Corporation - Conway 501 FTE
CITY-NEAR 5 382 FTE
NAT-TCR Bristol Farms - 026 - LANM Hermosa Beach 23.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Amador Residential Care Facility 23.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Syc-Hhh1-Spring Arbor Sal Cottage 23.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Grocery Outlet of Madras 23.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kedrion Biopharma 180 FTE
NAT-SIZE Diamond Graphics LLC 180 FTE
NAT-SIZE Times Supermarket - Mililani 180 FTE
NAT-SIZE Casper Company 180 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. 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.