Ready-mix concrete manufacturing and distributing · Arkansas

Arkhola - Southside Ready Mix

Barling, AR · ~26 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Arkhola - Southside Ready Mix runs at 228% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Ready-mix concrete manufacturing and distributing workplace, earning a grade F.

Arkhola - Southside Ready Mix: 7.5 TCR = 228% of Ready-mix concrete manufacturing and distributing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Arkhola - Southside Ready Mix safety composite

Arkhola - Southside Ready Mix scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 6%), 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Arkhola - Southside Ready Mix: 4.2 → 10.9 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 10.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.45× in 2023

Arkhola - Southside Ready Mix's TCR rose 6.7 from 4.2 in 2020 to 10.9 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.45× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327320 · Barling, AR ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.5 · 228% of ind

  • DART 10.9 DART
  • RANK #10/10
  • PHOTO Superior Concrete/DC…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Superior Concrete/DC Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Arkhola - Southside Ready Mix in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Arkhola - Southside Ready Mix averages 7.5 TCR (228% of the Ready-mix concrete manufacturing and distributing BLS benchmark).

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

Arkhola - Southside Ready Mix TCR series: 2020=4.2 · 2023=10.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Arkhola - Southside Ready Mix falls in its industry

1,316 Ready-mix concrete manufacturi establishments

Safer than 21% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arkansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 10 Ready-mix concrete manufacturi employers in Arkansas.

Arkhola - Southside Ready Mix (26 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 33 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Arkhola - Southside Ready Mix
Arkhola - Southside Ready Mix (26 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 33 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Arkhola - Southside Ready Mix has fewer employees than the Ready-mix concrete manufacturing and dis median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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
2023 10.9 10.9 3 0 0
2020 4.2 4.2 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327320 · AR · Barling

1,316 Ready-mix concrete manufacturing and distributing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,393 rated employers in Arkansas with headcount on file · 5 employers in Barling, 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 Superior Concrete/DC Plant 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Laredo Ready Mix Ltd 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Central Builders all locations 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Transit Mix Main Plant 7.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Green Forest Hatchery 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Clarksville Hatchery #1 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE RHM Gin & Warehouse 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hope Growout 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR Action Inc 177 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ashton Place Health and Rehabilitaion 150 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ashton Place Health and Rehab 138 FTE
CITY-NEAR APAC Construction (Muskogee) 33 FTE
NAT-TCR Treeland TF8 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Brookdale Meadowmont 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Inland Empire 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR James Wickliffe 7.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Minnesota Oncology - Woodbury 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE DSB Plus Petaluma 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE LeafGuard of Southern Georgia 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Angelbeck Lumber Co., Inc. 26 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: 2023, 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.