Beverages, soft drink (including artificially carbonated waters), manufacturing · Arkansas

Ozarks Coca-Cola/Dr Pepper Bottling Company - NWA

Lowell, AR · ~160 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ozarks Coca-Cola/Dr Pepper Bottling Company - NWA runs at 208% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Beverages, soft drink (including artificially carbonated waters), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Ozarks Coca-Cola/Dr Pepper Bottling Company - NWA: 6.9 TCR = 208% of Beverages, soft drink (including artificially carbonated waters), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ozarks Coca-Cola/Dr Pepper Bottling Company - NWA safety composite

Ozarks Coca-Cola/Dr Pepper Bottling Company - NWA scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 22%), 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

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Ozarks Coca-Cola/Dr Pepper Bottling Company - NWA: 6.6 → 7.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 7.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.95× in 2024

Ozarks Coca-Cola/Dr Pepper Bottling Company - NWA's TCR rose 0.6 from 6.6 in 2023 to 7.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.95× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 312111 · Lowell, AR ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 6.9 · 208% of ind

  • DART 6.5 DART
  • RANK #2/4
  • PHOTO shasta bevereages inc.
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~160 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: shasta bevereages inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ozarks Coca-Cola/Dr Pepper Bottling Company - NWA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ozarks Coca-Cola/Dr Pepper Bottling Company - NWA averages 6.9 TCR (208% of the Beverages, soft drink (including artificially carbonated waters), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Ozarks Coca-Cola/Dr Pepper Bottling Company - NWA TCR series: 2023=6.6 · 2024=7.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Ozarks Coca-Cola/Dr Pepper Bottling Company - NWA falls in its industry

516 Beverages, soft drink (includi establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arkansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 4 Beverages, soft drink (includi employers in Arkansas.

Ozarks Coca-Cola/Dr Pepper Bottling Company - NWA (160 employees, TCR 6.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 149 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 02004006008001,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Ozarks Coca-Cola/Dr Pepper Bottling Company - NWA
Ozarks Coca-Cola/Dr Pepper Bottling Company - NWA (160 employees, TCR 6.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 149 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Ozarks Coca-Cola/Dr Pepper Bottling Company - NWA has more employees than the Beverages, soft drink (including artific median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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 7.2 6.5 11 0 0
2023 6.6 5.9 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

312111 · AR · Lowell

516 Beverages, soft drink (including artificially carbonated waters), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,393 rated employers in Arkansas with headcount on file · 52 employers in Lowell, 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 shasta bevereages inc. 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Swire Coca-Cola of Boise 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR G&J Pepsi- Columbus 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR IL - Northlake 6.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE International Paper- Russellville Corrugated Container Plant 160 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2807-0462 160 FTE
STATE-SIZE Skilled care 160 FTE
STATE-SIZE SIIMMONS PET TREATS 159 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lowell, AR - JB Hunt Corporate 4,585 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lowell, AR - JB Hunt Corporate B C 2,760 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lowell, AR - Training and Technology 1,277 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lowell, AR - JB Hunt Corporate A Marketing 822 FTE
NAT-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - TUL5 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Main Office 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - DNK5 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR MiTek 6.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - DOB4 160 FTE
NAT-SIZE Southdale YMCA in Edina 160 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - WCH2 160 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dfa Distributing West - Dallas Tx-3114 Haskell Ave 160 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.