State profile · OSHA ITA
Arkansas workplace safety
How 4,393 OSHA-reporting employers across Arkansas compare on workplace injuries, 2016–2024.
- 4,393
- Employers
- 4.4
- Avg TCR
- 67,269
- Injuries
- 117
- Fatalities
The state picture
Arkansas's reporting employers average 4.4 recordable injuries per 100 workers, 1.6 times the ~2.7 all-industry private-sector norm.
- 4.4
- avg TCR · per 100 workers
- 4,393
- employers reporting
- 67,269
- recordable injuries
- 117
- worker fatalities
State average reflects each state's industry mix. Sort the table below by each employer's own grade against its industry benchmark.
15% of Arkansas's reporting establishments earn an F and 20% an A, each measured against its own industry benchmark, not the state line. These grades are a transparent derived index, not an official OSHA rating; see the Methodology for the exact formula.
Where Arkansas ranks among states
54 states & territories by avg TCRArkansas's average TCR of 4.4 is lower than 92% of states, a state average reflects industry mix as much as workplace safety.
A second cut tells a different story: ranked by injury rate alone, Arkansas is #5 of 54. Ranked instead by fatalities per employer establishment, it's #54 of 54, a 49-place swing. A state can run a moderate everyday injury rate while its rarer, most severe incidents cluster differently; the two metrics measure different things and shouldn't be read as interchangeable.
How Arkansas Workplaces Compare
Arkansas hosts 4,393 employer establishments currently reporting to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. These are not small shops: federal rules require ITA submission from workplaces with 250+ employees in any industry, plus workplaces with 20+ employees in the roughly 60 NAICS codes classified as high-hazard (construction, manufacturing, healthcare, warehousing, agriculture, and others). Across this Arkansas cohort, workers have logged 67,269 recordable injuries, producing a state average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 4.4 injuries per 100 full-time workers per year during 2016–2024.
The state has recorded 117 workplace fatalities in the reporting window, which is tracked separately from non-fatal injury counts because fatal events have their own investigation trail under 29 CFR 1904.39. Reading state-level TCR requires context: the headline figure is driven by a state's industry mix. A state with a heavy construction, logging, or meatpacking footprint will mechanically post higher TCR than a state dominated by finance or professional services, even when individual employers are equally well-managed. That is why the employer table below sorts each establishment by its own TCR and letter grade, against the BLS benchmark for its specific industry, not against the state average.
For jobseekers, relocators, investors, and local safety professionals, state-level pages function as an entry point: use the grade-sorted list to spot the safest and highest-risk employers in Arkansas, then click through to an individual establishment for its year-by-year injury, illness, DART, and fatality trajectory. Compare multiple years before drawing conclusions, a single outlier year can reflect a specific event, whereas a sustained pattern across reporting cycles is a more reliable risk signal. All data comes directly from employer-submitted OSHA Form 300A summaries. State OSHA plans in 22 states operate their own enforcement programs in parallel, but the injury data above is harmonized through the federal ITA system.
Employers in Arkansas, by injury rate
Page 13 of 88| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frit Industries | Walnut Ridge | Mixing purchased fertilizer | F | 7.3 |
| Pepper Source Rogers | Rogers | Cheese based salad dressing | D | 7.3 |
| Terra Renewal Inc | Dardanelle | Rendering fats | F | 7.3 |
| Berryville Plant | Berryville | Poultry Processing | F | 7.2 |
| Sinco, Inc. | Conway | Air cowls, sheet metal (exce | F | 7.2 |
| Berryville | Berryville | Semiconductor and Related De | F | 7.2 |
| Drew Foam Companies, Inc. | Monticello | Foam polystyrene products ma | F | 7.2 |
| Akin House, Inc. | Dumas | Furniture, household-type, u | F | 7.2 |
| River Valley Hatchery | Russellville | Poultry Hatcheries | D | 7.2 |
| Multiwall Sheridan a division of Signode Industrial Group | Sheridan | Shipping containers, corruga | F | 7.2 |
| DBG | Conway | Ducts, sheet metal, manufact | F | 7.2 |
| Archway Apartments (Russellville)(651) | Russellville | 624120 Services for the Elde | D | 7.2 |
| Dillmeier Glass Company | Van Buren | Glass products (except packa | F | 7.2 |
| Inland Waste Solutions Bethel Heights | Bethel Heights | Garbage collection services | F | 7.2 |
| Arkansas Steel Processing | Osceola | Metals service centers | F | 7.2 |
| 2643-03080001-030802 | Hot Springs | General Medical and Surgical | C | 7.2 |
| 045144-Lit-Westside Sta | Little Rock | Mail and Parcel Delivery | D | 7.1 |
| Decatur Processing | Decatur | - | F | 7.1 |
| Lee Wilson & Company LLC | Wilson | Cotton ginning | D | 7.1 |
| Collom & Carney Clinic-Prescott | Prescott | Family physicians' offices ( | D | 7.1 |
| Ranger Boats | Flippin | Boats (i.e., suitable or int | F | 7.1 |
| Central Arkansas Development Council | Benton | Community action advocacy or | F | 7.1 |
| STUTTGART | Stuttgart | Confectionery Merchant Whole | F | 7.1 |
| Pugh Lubricants West Memphis | West Memphis | Oil, petroleum, bulk station | F | 7.1 |
| HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital of Jonesboro | Jonesboro | Hospitals, specialty (except | D | 7.1 |
| 3375 Keystone Automotive | Springdale | Automotive parts, new, merch | F | 7.1 |
| Green Forest Plant | Green Forest | Poultry Processing | F | 7.1 |
| Newberry Tanks & Equipment, LLC | West Memphis | Gas storage tanks, heavy gau | F | 7.1 |
| Arkansas Heart Hospital | Little Rock | Hospitals, general medical a | C | 7.1 |
| Russellville Home Base | Russellville | Hospices, inpatient care | C | 7.1 |
| Bed Bath and Beyond Hot Springs | Hot Springs | retailing new home furnishin | F | 7.1 |
| PnP Little Rock | Little Rock | Scrap materials (e.g., autom | F | 7.1 |
| Snow/Yellville | Yellville | Charcoal briquettes, wood, m | F | 7.1 |
| 4054-ABS-0020-0022-00611 | Texarkana | Supermarkets and Other Groce | F | 7.1 |
| Ft. Smith | Ft. Smith | Trucking, general freight, l | D | 7.1 |
| Job Path - Fayetteville | Fayetteville | 561311 Employment Placement | F | 7.1 |
| REN455 Aerial District | Little Rock | Exterminating and Pest Contr | D | 7.1 |
| Paris Health and Rehabilitation Center | Paris | Skilled Nursing Facility | C | 7.1 |
| The Hall Group | North Little Rock | Lawnmowers, agricultural-typ | F | 7.0 |
| Fox Ridge North Little Rock | Little | Assisted-living facilities w | D | 7.0 |
| Unity Health Harris Hospital | Newport | Hospitals, general medical a | C | 7.0 |
| PARKHILL_1376803 | North Little Rock | Mail and Parcel Delivery | D | 7.0 |
| Shipley Motor Equipment Company | Pottsville | Automobile merchant wholesal | F | 7.0 |
| Armth - Mountain Home Center | Midway | Couriers and Express Deliver | C | 7.0 |
| Little Rock-Colonel, AR - TPR | Little Rock | Blood and Organ Banks | D | 7.0 |
| Grannis/Broken Bow Growout | Dequeen | Support Activities For Anima | D | 7.0 |
| McCourt Manufacturing | Fort Smith | Chairs, portable folding, au | F | 7.0 |
| Apple Creek Health and Rehab | Centerton | Skilled nursing facilities | C | 7.0 |
| Whitley Place - Russellville | Russellville | 623210 Residential Intellect | D | 7.0 |
| Bergman Feed Mill | Bergman | Other Animal Food Manufactur | D | 7.0 |
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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What Arkansas's safety record means for you
Arkansas averages a TCR of 4.4 - about 1.6× the ~2.7 national private-sector norm. A state average hides wide employer-by-employer variation.
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State averages use the credible-subset mean across reporting establishments; they are statistical summaries, not regulatory assessments.
Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.