Beverages, alcoholic (except distilled spirits, wine), merchant wholesalers · Arkansas

O'Connor Distributing- White River Division

Newport, AR · ~32 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
2.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

O'Connor Distributing- White River Division runs at 127% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Beverages, alcoholic (except distilled spirits, wine), merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

O'Connor Distributing- White River Division: 2.8 TCR = 127% of Beverages, alcoholic (except distilled spirits, wine), merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

O'Connor Distributing- White River Division safety composite

O'Connor Distributing- White River Division scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 23%), 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).

C

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% 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

O'Connor Distributing- White River Division: 2.8 → 7.6 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 7.6 TCR · DART/TCR 2.72× in 2023

O'Connor Distributing- White River Division's TCR rose 4.8 from 2.8 in 2018 to 7.6 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 2.72× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424810 · Newport, AR ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 2.8 · 127% of ind

  • DART 7.6 DART
  • RANK #4/9
  • PHOTO Southern Tier
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~32 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Southern Tier (0.0 TCR gap)

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O'Connor Distributing- White River Division in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows O'Connor Distributing- White River Division averages 2.8 TCR (127% of the Beverages, alcoholic (except distilled spirits, wine), merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

O'Connor Distributing- White River Division TCR series: 2018=2.8 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=6.4 · 2023=7.6 · BLS 2.2

Where O'Connor Distributing- White River Division falls in its industry

664 Beverages, alcoholic (except d establishments

Safer than 87% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arkansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 9 Beverages, alcoholic (except d employers in Arkansas.

O'Connor Distributing- White River Division (32 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 6.4 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate O'Connor Distributing- White River Division
O'Connor Distributing- White River Division (32 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 6.4

O'Connor Distributing- White River Division has fewer employees than the Beverages, alcoholic (except distilled s median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.4. 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 7.6 7.6 3 0 0
2022 6.4 6.4 2 0 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 2.8 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424810 · AR · Newport

664 Beverages, alcoholic (except distilled spirits, wine), 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 Southern Tier 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bama Budweiser of Selma, Inc 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lancaster HDD 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Crescent Crown Distributing, L.L.C. // Lafayette 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Peco Foods Inc.-Hatchery 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE black oak gin co llc 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Benton 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pine Bluff Office 32 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 Trackonomy Systems, Inc. 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 6 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR NAGL Manufacturing 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Western Dairy Transport-Hyrum 2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE 012q - Jupiter Regional Cost Center Fl Rntl 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pearson Builders Inc. 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Office/Warehouse 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gunter Construction Roofing, Inc. 32 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, 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.