Rolls and buns (including frozen) made in commercial bakeries · Arkansas

Southern Bakeries, LLC

Hope, AR · ~299 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Southern Bakeries, LLC runs at 255% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Rolls and buns (including frozen) made in commercial bakeries workplace, earning a grade F.

Southern Bakeries, LLC: 8.4 TCR = 255% of Rolls and buns (including frozen) made in commercial bakeries BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Southern Bakeries, LLC safety composite

Southern Bakeries, LLC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 61% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 18%), 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 8.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% 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

Southern Bakeries, LLC: 6.4 → 9.5 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 11.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.23× in 2021

Southern Bakeries, LLC's TCR rose 3.1 from 6.4 in 2018 to 9.5 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 11.0 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.23× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311812 · Hope, AR ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.4 · 255% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK #7/9
  • PHOTO US Bakery dba Franz …
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 66 inj
  • SIZE ~299 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: US Bakery dba Franz Bakery (0.0 TCR gap)

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Southern Bakeries, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Southern Bakeries, LLC averages 8.4 TCR (255% of the Rolls and buns (including frozen) made in commercial bakeries BLS benchmark).

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

Southern Bakeries, LLC TCR series: 2018=6.4 · 2019=6.8 · 2020=11 · 2021=9.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Southern Bakeries, LLC falls in its industry

1,014 Rolls and buns (including froz establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arkansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 9 Rolls and buns (including froz employers in Arkansas.

Southern Bakeries, LLC (299 employees, TCR 8.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 117 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 01,0002,0003,000 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Southern Bakeries, LLC
Southern Bakeries, LLC (299 employees, TCR 8.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 117 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Southern Bakeries, LLC has more employees than the Rolls and buns (including frozen) made i median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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
2021 9.5 2.0 17 7 0
2020 11.0 3.3 16 11 0
2019 6.8 0.4 6 10 0
2018 6.4 2.6 27 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311812 · AR · Hope

1,014 Rolls and buns (including frozen) made in commercial bakeries employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,393 rated employers in Arkansas with headcount on file · 41 employers in Hope, 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 US Bakery dba Franz Bakery 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wenner Bakery-New Jersey Facility 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR AMBASSADOR PERSONNEL, INC @ FBC-BATESVILLE 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lansing Sales Branch 8.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Planters - Ft. Smith Arkansas Plant 300 FTE
STATE-SIZE Planters - Fort Smith 300 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6801 300 FTE
STATE-SIZE Acute Care Hospital 298 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hope Plant 1,294 FTE
CITY-NEAR New Millennium Building Systems, LLC. - Hope 279 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1065 265 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1065 264 FTE
NAT-TCR Dunwoody Village 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Brunswick Health and Rehabilitation Center 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR The Westin Jersey City Newport 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Audi St Paul 8.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Closure Systems International Inc. (aka - CVM) 299 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4813-48130009-Freeman Expo Lanham 299 FTE
NAT-SIZE Performance Contractors, Inc. - Exxon Baytown 299 FTE
NAT-SIZE FOX Factory - Watsonville 299 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: 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.