Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction · Arkansas

creative design concepts inc

Van Buren, AR · ~58 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.1
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

creative design concepts inc runs at 431% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction workplace, earning a grade F.

creative design concepts inc: 12.1 TCR = 431% of Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction BLS 2.8 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

creative design concepts inc safety composite

creative design concepts inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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 12.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

−24.4

2018→2024

creative design concepts inc injury rate improved

creative design concepts inc's TCR fell 24.4 from 32.8 in 2018 to 8.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 32.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.31× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=32.8 · 2019=14.1 · 2020=6.6 · 2021=6.2 · 2022=8.3 · 2023=8.2 · 2024=8.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Van Buren, AR ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 12.1 · 431% of ind

  • DART 3.7 DART
  • RANK #21/21
  • PHOTO Public Works
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 39 inj
  • SIZE ~58 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Public Works (0.0 TCR gap)

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creative design concepts inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows creative design concepts inc averages 12.1 TCR (431% of the Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction BLS benchmark).

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

creative design concepts inc TCR series: 2018=32.8 · 2019=14.1 · 2020=6.6 · 2021=6.2 · 2022=8.3 · 2023=8.2 · 2024=8.3 · BLS 2.8

Where creative design concepts inc falls in its industry

4,078 Pavement, highway, road, stree establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arkansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #21 safest of 21 Pavement, highway, road, stree employers in Arkansas.

creative design concepts inc (58 employees, TCR 12.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 01,0002,0003,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate creative design concepts inc
creative design concepts inc (58 employees, TCR 12.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

creative design concepts inc has fewer employees than the Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 8.3 3.7 9 0 0
2023 8.2 5.8 7 0 0
2022 8.3 8.3 5 0 0
2021 6.2 4.2 3 0 0
2020 6.6 2.2 1 2 0
2019 14.1 8.1 6 1 0
2018 32.8 8.9 8 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · AR · Van Buren

4,078 Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,393 rated employers in Arkansas with headcount on file · 71 employers in Van Buren, 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 Public Works 12.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Region 1 - Rabb 12.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Menominee County Road Commission 12.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR highway, street and bridge construction 12.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Little Rock Data Center 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Malone's Mechanical Inc. 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Otis Elevator Company-Little Rock 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE MIAS OSHA Safety 58 FTE
CITY-NEAR Van Buren Drivers 1,245 FTE
CITY-NEAR Van Buren Plant 1,089 FTE
CITY-NEAR Van Buren General Office 850 FTE
CITY-NEAR VBR 751 FTE
NAT-TCR Mountain Meadows Senior Living Campus 12.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - HSF5 12.1 TCR
NAT-TCR GT Unlimited LLC 12.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Heritage Place 12.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Redhawk Power Plant 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Steelville Senior Living 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rochester Industrial Control 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Urbana 58 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, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.