Employer · Arkansas

AR207 Hope Particleboard

Hope, AR · ~98 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

AR207 Hope Particleboard runs at 55% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade B.

AR207 Hope Particleboard: 1.8 TCR = 55% of industry BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

AR207 Hope Particleboard safety composite

AR207 Hope Particleboard scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 56% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 39%), 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

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

AR207 Hope Particleboard: 1.0 → 4.4 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 4.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.82× in 2019

AR207 Hope Particleboard's TCR rose 3.5 from 1.0 in 2016 to 4.4 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.82× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321219 · Hope, AR AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.8 · 55% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #4/5
  • PHOTO Norbord
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~98 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Norbord (0.0 TCR gap)

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AR207 Hope Particleboard in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows AR207 Hope Particleboard averages 1.8 TCR (55% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

AR207 Hope Particleboard TCR series: 2016=1 · 2017=0 · 2018=1.8 · 2019=4.4 · BLS 3.3

Where AR207 Hope Particleboard falls in its industry

125 industry establishments

Safer than 56% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arkansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 5 industry employers in Arkansas.

AR207 Hope Particleboard (98 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 137 employees and a TCR of 2.2 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 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate AR207 Hope Particleboard
AR207 Hope Particleboard (98 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 137 employees and a TCR of 2.2

AR207 Hope Particleboard has fewer employees than the industry median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.2. 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
2019 4.4 1.5 2 1 0
2018 1.8 1.8 1 1 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 1.0 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321219 · AR · Hope

125 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,393 rated employers in Arkansas with headcount on file · 41 employers in Hope, 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 Norbord 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Custom Finishers 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0310 - Fiber-Pennsylvania 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR LaSalle Bioenergy 1.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kopco, Inc 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE BEN 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE 8445 ROGERS 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE Unit # 2879 98 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hope Plant 1,294 FTE
CITY-NEAR Southern Bakeries, LLC 299 FTE
CITY-NEAR New Millennium Building Systems, LLC. - Hope 279 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1065 265 FTE
NAT-TCR Christian Street Service Building 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Troy Public Schools 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Tlc home health of Ohio, Inc. 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Brewery 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Oregon Maintenance Shop 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE GLC Fountainview Terrace 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fleet Operations Training 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Marion 98 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: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.