Other Animal Food Manufacturing · Arkansas

Waldron Feed Mill

Waldron, AR · ~25 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.1
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Waldron Feed Mill runs at 132% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Other Animal Food Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Waldron Feed Mill: 5.1 TCR = 132% of Other Animal Food Manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Waldron Feed Mill safety composite

Waldron Feed Mill scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 76% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 30%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% 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%).

Waldron Feed Mill held a steady TCR band

Waldron Feed Mill's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 13.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=0.0 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=10.6 · 2021=13.9 · 2022=6.7 · 2023=10.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311119 · Waldron, AR ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.1 · 132% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #14/21
  • PHOTO Mar-Jac Poultry MS L…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mar-Jac Poultry MS LLC - Farms (0.0 TCR gap)

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Waldron Feed Mill in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Waldron Feed Mill averages 5.1 TCR (132% of the Other Animal Food Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Waldron Feed Mill TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=10.6 · 2021=13.9 · 2022=6.7 · 2023=10 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.9

Where Waldron Feed Mill falls in its industry

756 Other Animal Food Manufacturin establishments

Safer than 30% 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 #14 safest of 21 Other Animal Food Manufacturin employers in Arkansas.

Waldron Feed Mill (25 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 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 050100150200 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Waldron Feed Mill
Waldron Feed Mill (25 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Waldron Feed Mill has fewer employees than the Other Animal Food Manufacturing median and a higher 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 10.0 3.3 2 1 0
2022 6.7 3.3 1 1 0
2021 13.9 13.9 1 3 0
2020 10.6 10.6 0 3 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311119 · AR · Waldron

756 Other Animal Food Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,393 rated employers in Arkansas with headcount on file · 11 employers in Waldron, 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 Mar-Jac Poultry MS LLC - Farms 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Park City Feed Mill 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Darling Ingredients : Muscatine 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kent Nutrition Group- Hagerstown 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE 1300-Hatchery 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Carroll Electric - Pea Ridge 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE North Arkansas Electric Cooperative - Ash Flat 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE JL Bryson, Inc. 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR Waldron Plant 759 FTE
CITY-NEAR Waldron SNF Operations LLC 73 FTE
CITY-NEAR TYW 64 FTE
CITY-NEAR MERCY HOSPITAL WALDRON 61 FTE
NAT-TCR Erick Nielsen Enterprises Inc 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Sunrise Village 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Colton Terminal 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR DC14 5.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Robards Feed Mill 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Central Valley Training Center, Inc.- Administration 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE LWC Mitchell 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Oglethorpe Feed Mill 25 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, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.