Brick Manufacturer · Arkansas

Ouachita Brick Plant

Malvern, AR · ~56 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ouachita Brick Plant runs at 119% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Brick Manufacturer workplace, earning a grade C.

Ouachita Brick Plant: 3.9 TCR = 119% of Brick Manufacturer BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ouachita Brick Plant safety composite

Ouachita Brick Plant scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 84% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 46%), 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

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

−5.6

2016→2023

Ouachita Brick Plant injury rate improved

Ouachita Brick Plant's TCR fell 5.6 from 5.6 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2019 at 6.6 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.6 · 2017=6.3 · 2018=3.3 · 2019=6.6 · 2022=1.6 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327120 · Malvern, AR ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.9 · 119% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/5
  • PHOTO General Shale Columb…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~56 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: General Shale Columbus Brick (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ouachita Brick Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ouachita Brick Plant averages 3.9 TCR (119% of the Brick Manufacturer BLS benchmark).

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

Ouachita Brick Plant TCR series: 2016=5.6 · 2017=6.3 · 2018=3.3 · 2019=6.6 · 2022=1.6 · 2023=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Ouachita Brick Plant falls in its industry

307 Brick Manufacturer establishments

Safer than 46% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arkansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 5 Brick Manufacturer employers in Arkansas.

Ouachita Brick Plant (56 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 57 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Ouachita Brick Plant
Ouachita Brick Plant (56 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 57 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Ouachita Brick Plant has fewer employees than the Brick Manufacturer median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 1.6 0.0 1 0 0
2019 6.6 4.9 3 1 0
2018 3.3 3.3 2 0 0
2017 6.3 3.2 4 0 0
2016 5.6 0.0 2 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327120 · AR · Malvern

307 Brick Manufacturer employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,393 rated employers in Arkansas with headcount on file · 33 employers in Malvern, 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 General Shale Columbus Brick 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Endicott Clay Products Co. 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Resco East Canton 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sergeant Bluff Plant 3.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE TCM Enterprises, LLC 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Thompson Electric 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pappas Foods 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE TMS - BRS 56 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 127 280 FTE
CITY-NEAR 127 263 FTE
CITY-NEAR Food Merchandising : MALVERN 256 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hot Spring Continuous Rolling Plant 208 FTE
NAT-TCR Tyler, Tx #00502 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Forest Envelope 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Fiesta # 23 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Astoria Health & Rehab 3.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Borton LC 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hub Machine & Tool, LP 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE JA Piper Roofing Co 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Blaise Alexander Ford 56 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, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.