Other Animal Food Manufacturing · Arkansas

Hope Feed Mill

Hope, AR · ~29 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.1
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hope Feed Mill runs at 285% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Other Animal Food Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Hope Feed Mill: 11.1 TCR = 285% of Other Animal Food Manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hope Feed Mill safety composite

Hope Feed Mill scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 0%), 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 11.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
F 25.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% 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

Hope Feed Mill: 5.5 → 54.8 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 54.8 TCR · DART/TCR 4.93× in 2022

Hope Feed Mill's TCR rose 49.3 from 5.5 in 2017 to 54.8 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 4.93× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311119 · Hope, AR ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.1 · 285% of ind

  • DART 54.8 DART
  • RANK #20/21
  • PHOTO J.D. Heiskell & Co. …
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~29 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: J.D. Heiskell & Co. Hanford CA (0.1 TCR gap)

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Hope Feed Mill in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hope Feed Mill averages 11.1 TCR (285% of the Other Animal Food Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Hope Feed Mill TCR series: 2017=5.5 · 2018=8.1 · 2019=2.7 · 2020=11 · 2021=28.3 · 2022=54.8 · BLS 3.9

Where Hope Feed Mill falls in its industry

756 Other Animal Food Manufacturin establishments

Safer than 4% 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 #20 safest of 21 Other Animal Food Manufacturin employers in Arkansas.

Hope Feed Mill (29 employees, TCR 11.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 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 050100150200 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Hope Feed Mill
Hope Feed Mill (29 employees, TCR 11.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Hope Feed Mill has fewer employees than the Other Animal Food Manufacturing 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
2022 54.8 54.8 2 7 0
2021 28.3 25.4 1 9 0
2020 11.0 11.0 0 4 0
2019 2.7 0.0 1 0 0
2018 8.1 4.0 2 0 0
2017 5.5 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311119 · AR · Hope

756 Other Animal Food Manufacturing 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 J.D. Heiskell & Co. Hanford CA 11.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trouw Nutrition Neosho 10.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Feed Energy Company - DM 11.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mid-State Milling Inc Main 10.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Entergy Russellville 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE East Harding Construction 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE ACE Glass Construction - NW 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Electrical 29 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 5472-NAI-0034-0034-02876 11.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Vi at La Jolla Village 11.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Minneapolis ARC 11.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Lincoln Place 11.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Matthews of Pewaukee 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hartland Place 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE 04-21-02 Northeast Div - Blue Ridge Region 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Phoenix (GCR) 29 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.