Balloons, rubber, manufacturing · Arkansas

Big River - ARCo

Paris, AR · ~23 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Big River - ARCo runs at 274% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Balloons, rubber, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Big River - ARCo: 9.1 TCR = 274% of Balloons, rubber, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Big River - ARCo safety composite

Big River - ARCo scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 12%), 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)
F 9.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.8

2022→2024

Big River - ARCo injury rate improved

Big River - ARCo's TCR fell 4.8 from 9.7 in 2022 to 4.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 12.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=9.7 · 2023=12.5 · 2024=4.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326299 · Paris, AR ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.1 · 274% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P12
  • PHOTO Preferred Compoundin…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Preferred Compounding - Whitewater (formerly Trostel, Ltd.) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Big River - ARCo in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Big River - ARCo averages 9.1 TCR (274% of the Balloons, rubber, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Big River - ARCo TCR series: 2022=9.7 · 2023=12.5 · 2024=4.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Big River - ARCo falls in its industry

257 Balloons, rubber, manufacturin establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Big River - ARCo (23 employees, TCR 9.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 3.6 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Big River - ARCo
Big River - ARCo (23 employees, TCR 9.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 3.6

Big River - ARCo has fewer employees than the Balloons, rubber, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.6. 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 4.9 0.0 1 0 0
2023 12.5 0.0 3 0 0
2022 9.7 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326299 · AR · Paris

257 Balloons, rubber, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,393 rated employers in Arkansas with headcount on file · 12 employers in Paris, 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 Preferred Compounding - Whitewater (formerly Trostel, Ltd.) 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR ARC - Hamburg Plant 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mill Steel Jeffersonville 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mill Steel Houston 8.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Harry L. Oswald Power Station 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Texarkana Operations AK2L 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cowling Electric PLLC 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pick-it Construction 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stark Manufacturing, LLC 112 FTE
CITY-NEAR Paris Health and Rehabilitation Center 101 FTE
CITY-NEAR Paris Health & Rehabilitation 100 FTE
CITY-NEAR Paris Health & Rehab 98 FTE
NAT-TCR North Park Post-Acute 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Provident Electric Inc Dept 3 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR King Kullen #53 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR The Medical Center of Aurora 9.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Gray and Company / Seneca 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Burton location 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Marlan Tool Inc 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Polaris Door & Trim, Inc. 23 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. 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.