Brick Manufacturer · Arkansas

Perla Brick Plants

Malvern, AR · ~123 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Perla Brick Plants runs at 163% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Brick Manufacturer workplace, earning a grade D.

Perla Brick Plants: 5.4 TCR = 163% of Brick Manufacturer BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Perla Brick Plants safety composite

Perla Brick Plants scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 28%), 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% 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

Perla Brick Plants: 3.4 → 5.0 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 9.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.35× in 2023

Perla Brick Plants's TCR rose 1.6 from 3.4 in 2016 to 5.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2018 at 9.4 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.35× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 5.4 · 163% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #2/5
  • PHOTO Hickory manufacturin…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 40 inj
  • SIZE ~123 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hickory manufacturing plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Perla Brick Plants in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Perla Brick Plants averages 5.4 TCR (163% of the Brick Manufacturer BLS benchmark).

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

Perla Brick Plants TCR series: 2016=3.4 · 2017=6.2 · 2018=9.4 · 2019=4.4 · 2022=4 · 2023=5 · BLS 3.3

Where Perla Brick Plants falls in its industry

307 Brick Manufacturer establishments

Safer than 28% 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 #2 safest of 5 Brick Manufacturer employers in Arkansas.

Perla Brick Plants (123 employees, TCR 5.4) 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 Perla Brick Plants
Perla Brick Plants (123 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 57 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Perla Brick Plants has more 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 5.0 1.9 8 0 0
2022 4.0 0.7 6 0 0
2019 4.4 2.2 6 0 0
2018 9.4 7.8 10 2 0
2017 6.2 5.3 7 0 0
2016 3.4 1.1 3 0 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 Hickory manufacturing plant 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR San Felipe Brick Plant 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Texas Clay Brick Plants 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Red River Brick Elgin 5.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kerusso Activewear 123 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sloan Valve-Augusta 123 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nucor Insulated Panel Group - Sheridan AR 123 FTE
STATE-SIZE Grandeur Fasteners, Inc. 123 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 San Felipe Brick Plant 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Huggins Metal Finishing, Inc. 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Atlas Restoration LLC 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Pierz Villa, Inc. 5.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ron Kendall Masonry, Inc. 123 FTE
NAT-SIZE CP Medical Inc. 123 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Sfsu Resident Dining 123 FTE
NAT-SIZE Reyes Group Ltd 123 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.