Riceland Foods - Jonesboro
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JONESBORO, AR | Milling rice
~374 avg employees | 9 years of OSHA data
Riceland Foods - Jonesboro has an average TCR of 5.6, which is 169% of the industry average (3.3) for Milling rice. This is worse than average.
Safety Insights for Riceland Foods - Jonesboro
Riceland Foods - Jonesboro operates an establishment with approximately 374 full-time equivalent workers in JONESBORO, AR, classified under the Milling rice industry (NAICS 311212). Across 9 years of mandatory OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA) reporting, this employer has accumulated 156 recordable injuries, 1 occupational illnesses, and 2 workplace fatalities. The average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 5.6 injuries per 100 full-time workers per year provides the anchor metric for the D letter grade (Poor Safety Record).
Benchmarked against the Bureau of Labor Statistics industry average of 3.3 for Milling rice, Riceland Foods - Jonesboro's workforce experiences 169% of the typical injury burden. This ratio matters because TCR already normalizes for hours worked — a 200,000-hour exposure base equals roughly 100 full-time workers — so establishments with very different headcounts can be compared directly. A TCR above the benchmark flags a higher-than-typical risk profile for jobseekers, insurers, and enforcement agencies to examine.
Multi-year trend analysis is the single most reliable signal here: a one-year spike could reflect a single severe event, whereas sustained elevation across 9 reporting cycles points to systemic hazard exposure. Readers evaluating Riceland Foods - Jonesboro as an employer, contractor, investment, or regulatory target should examine the yearly DART rate (days away, restricted, or transferred), the fatality count of 2, and any year-over-year deterioration shown in the table below. All figures come directly from employer-submitted OSHA Form 300A summaries — there is no modeling, estimation, or third-party adjustment layered on top of the government data.
Verify This Employer with OSHA
All injury, illness, and fatality figures on this page are sourced from Riceland Foods - Jonesboro's own mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source — name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.
Verify on OSHA Establishment SearchSource: U.S. Department of Labor — OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 311212 — Milling rice.
DART Rate — Transparent Calculation (2024)
DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.
20 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 1,264,806 hours worked = 3.16 DART
Methodology: 29 CFR 1904 — OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping
Cross-Validating Context — Establishment vs Industry vs State
| Benchmark | TCR | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Riceland Foods - Jonesboro (this establishment) | 5.59 | OSHA ITA Form 300A, 9-year avg |
| Grain mills, rice industry avg | 3.30 | BLS IIF, NAICS 311212 |
| Arkansas state avg (all industries) | 12.86 | OSHA ITA, state-level rollup |
Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics — Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program
Reportable Incident Timeline
Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Riceland Foods - Jonesboro to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.
- 2024: 21 reportable incidents · 21 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2023: 23 reportable incidents · 23 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2022: 25 reportable incidents · 24 injuries, 0 illnesses, 1 fatality — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2021: 29 reportable incidents · 29 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2020: 19 reportable incidents · 19 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2019: 11 reportable incidents · 9 injuries, 1 illnesses, 1 fatality — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2018: 12 reportable incidents · 12 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2017: 7 reportable incidents · 7 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2016: 12 reportable incidents · 12 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) — inspection case-number records
Year-by-Year Safety Data
| Year | TCR | DART | Injuries | Illnesses | Fatalities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 3.3 | 3.2 | 21 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 4.5 | 3.7 | 23 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 4.5 | 3.8 | 24 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 6.6 | 4.8 | 29 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 5.4 | 3.7 | 19 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2.5 | 1.3 | 9 | 1 | 1 |
| 2018 | 4.1 | 3.1 | 12 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 2.4 | 1.7 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | 17.0 | 7.1 | 12 | 0 | 0 |
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