Employer · Arkansas

VBR

Van Buren, AR · ~751 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

VBR runs at 63% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade B.

VBR: 2.1 TCR = 63% of industry BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

VBR safety composite

VBR scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 54%), 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

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 54% 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

VBR: 1.6 → 2.3 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 2.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.58× in 2024

VBR's TCR rose 0.7 from 1.6 in 2016 to 2.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 2.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.58× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311615 · Van Buren, AR AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.1 · 63% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK #17/69
  • PHOTO Koch Foods Processing
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 110 inj
  • SIZE ~751 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Koch Foods Processing (0.0 TCR gap)

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VBR in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows VBR averages 2.1 TCR (63% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

VBR TCR series: 2016=1.6 · 2017=1.7 · 2020=2.8 · 2021=1.1 · 2022=2.8 · 2023=2.2 · 2024=2.3 · BLS 3.3

Where VBR falls in its industry

509 industry establishments

Safer than 74% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arkansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 69 industry employers in Arkansas.

VBR (751 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 05001,0001,5002,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate VBR
VBR (751 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 employees and a TCR of 3.5

VBR has more employees than the industry median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 2.3 1.2 15 0 0
2023 2.2 0.8 16 0 0
2022 2.8 0.8 21 0 0
2021 1.1 0.8 12 0 0
2020 2.8 1.1 22 0 0
2017 1.7 0.8 12 1 0
2016 1.6 0.8 12 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311615 · AR · Van Buren

509 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,393 rated employers in Arkansas with headcount on file · 71 employers in Van Buren, 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 Koch Foods Processing 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Butterball LLC 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR OKF Heavener Feed Mill 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Montevideo Plant 2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Northwest AR Hospitals - Springdale 749 FTE
STATE-SIZE Saline Memorial Hospital 758 FTE
STATE-SIZE Waldron Plant 759 FTE
STATE-SIZE Husqvarna Forestry Products N.A. Inc. 759 FTE
CITY-NEAR Van Buren Drivers 1,245 FTE
CITY-NEAR Van Buren Plant 1,089 FTE
CITY-NEAR Van Buren General Office 850 FTE
CITY-NEAR VBC 671 FTE
NAT-TCR USA Dallas 3937 S 26th Ave 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Stratus Roofing 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Knights Armament Company 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Botetourt County Board of Supervisors 2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ventra Salem LLC 751 FTE
NAT-SIZE VIP,INC. Rancho Cucamonga 751 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hickory DC & HUB / Sutter East - Claremont 751 FTE
NAT-SIZE Magid Glove and Safety Manufacturing Company LLC 751 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 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.