Applicators, wood, manufacturing · Arkansas

Hope Pellet Mill

Hope, AR · ~24 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hope Pellet Mill runs at 344% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Applicators, wood, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Hope Pellet Mill: 11.3 TCR = 344% of Applicators, wood, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hope Pellet Mill safety composite

Hope Pellet Mill scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 9%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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%).

TCR Δ

−8.5

2022→2023

Hope Pellet Mill injury rate improved

Hope Pellet Mill's TCR fell 8.5 from 15.6 in 2022 to 7.1 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 15.6 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.63× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=15.6 · 2023=7.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321999 · Hope, AR ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.3 · 344% of ind

  • DART 7.1 DART
  • RANK #7/7
  • PHOTO All American Stair C…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: All American Stair Co Inc (0.1 TCR gap)

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Hope Pellet Mill in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hope Pellet Mill averages 11.3 TCR (344% of the Applicators, wood, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Hope Pellet Mill TCR series: 2022=15.6 · 2023=7.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Hope Pellet Mill falls in its industry

405 Applicators, wood, manufacturi establishments

Safer than 9% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arkansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 7 Applicators, wood, manufacturi employers in Arkansas.

Hope Pellet Mill (24 employees, TCR 11.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 050100150200250300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Hope Pellet Mill
Hope Pellet Mill (24 employees, TCR 11.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Hope Pellet Mill has fewer employees than the Applicators, wood, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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 7.1 7.1 3 0 0
2022 15.6 0.0 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321999 · AR · Hope

405 Applicators, wood, 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 All American Stair Co Inc 11.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Top Shelf Closets 11.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Salamanca Lumber Company Incorporated 11.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Carris Reels CA 11.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Peco Foods Inc-Live Haul 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Taylor Gin Co 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE AECI - Dell Power Plant 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Producers Rice Mill, Inc. Stuttgart Construction 24 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 Cherrelyn Healthcare Center 11.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Liberty Commons Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center Of Bladen County 11.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Arden Courts King of Prussia 11.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Macy's Termite & Pest Control dba Good News Pest Solutions 11.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Insulsafe Textiles, Inc. 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Metals USA Grand Rapids Location #545 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Lake Crystal 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Common Ground 24 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, 2022. 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.