Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers · Arkansas

Newport, AR

Newport, AR · ~37 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Newport, AR runs at 175% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Newport, AR: 3.8 TCR = 175% of Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Newport, AR safety composite

Newport, AR scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 38%), 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% 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

−1.7

2016→2024

Newport, AR injury rate improved

Newport, AR's TCR fell 1.7 from 4.3 in 2016 to 2.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 9.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.69× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.3 · 2017=9.4 · 2018=6.3 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=9.0 · 2023=2.9 · 2024=2.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424910 · Newport, AR ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.8 · 175% of ind

  • DART 2.7 DART
  • RANK #9/11
  • PHOTO Rutherford-Main
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~37 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Rutherford-Main (0.0 TCR gap)

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Newport, AR in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Newport, AR averages 3.8 TCR (175% of the Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Newport, AR TCR series: 2016=4.3 · 2017=9.4 · 2018=6.3 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=9 · 2023=2.9 · 2024=2.7 · BLS 2.2

Where Newport, AR falls in its industry

1,202 Agricultural chemicals merchan establishments

Safer than 46% 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 #9 safest of 11 Agricultural chemicals merchan employers in Arkansas.

Newport, AR (37 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Newport, AR
Newport, AR (37 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Newport, AR has more employees than the Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesal 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
2024 2.7 2.7 1 0 0
2023 2.9 2.9 1 0 0
2022 9.0 6.0 2 1 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 6.3 6.3 2 0 0
2017 9.4 9.4 3 0 0
2016 4.3 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424910 · AR · Newport

1,202 Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,393 rated employers in Arkansas with headcount on file · 23 employers in Newport, 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 Rutherford-Main 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Garden City Kansas 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mid-Valley OR 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bomgaars Supply,Inc. - McCook 3.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Turner at Evergreen Packaging Pine Bluff AR 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE PI Roof Maintenance Inc. 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ridout - Door 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Paltech Enterprises of Arkansas - Carthage, MO 37 FTE
CITY-NEAR Shearer's Foods - Newport 412 FTE
CITY-NEAR Shearer's Foods - NPT 334 FTE
CITY-NEAR Arkansas Steel Associates, LLC 269 FTE
CITY-NEAR Unity Health Harris Medical Center 212 FTE
NAT-TCR CMP Pharma, Inc. 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 1229 - Everett 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 1155 - Watchung 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Euro Performance Cars Inc 3.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Embraer Executive Jet Services, LLC - MLB 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Endress+Hauser Wetzer USA, Inc. 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hospice of Fayette County, Inc. 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Unadilla Silo Company 37 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, 2017, 2016. 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.