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 19 of 88| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Vincent Hospital Hot Springs | Hot Springs | Hospitals, general medical a | B | 5.8 |
| Cave City Mat Manuf - 177 | Cave City | Industrial Launderers | F | 5.8 |
| Arning Companies Clarksville | Clarksville | Structural steel, fabricated | D | 5.8 |
| 4535-0649 | Hot Springs | Retail/Home Furnishings | D | 5.8 |
| Anthony Hardwood Composites, Inc. | Sheridan | Laminated structural wood me | D | 5.8 |
| West Memphis Pipe & Precast | West Memphis | Concrete product manufacturi | D | 5.8 |
| Pssi / Simmons Foods Inc. - Van Buren | Van Buren | Building Maintenance Service | D | 5.8 |
| #407 The Mad Butcher | Warren | - | D | 5.8 |
| Big Lots Store #1381 Harrison, AR | Harrison | Retail Other | D | 5.8 |
| East Arkansas Area Agency on Aging- Phillips | Helena | Home care of elderly, non-me | D | 5.8 |
| FS3 | Fort Smith | Bonded warehousing, general | C | 5.7 |
| Asphalt Producers, LLC | Jonesboro | Asphalt paving mixtures made | D | 5.7 |
| 4769-838-Williams Sonoma | Little Rock | Furniture Merchant Wholesale | F | 5.7 |
| C088 Camden | Camden | - | F | 5.7 |
| B31 | Maumelle | Wholesale Distribution of Me | F | 5.7 |
| 5213 Fayetteville College | Fayetteville | 453310 Used Merchandise Stor | D | 5.7 |
| Waldron SNF Operations LLC | Waldron | Skilled nursing facilities | C | 5.7 |
| 4795-Ea-Lit-Little Rock-Lit-Trml | Little Rock | Scheduled passenger air tran | D | 5.7 |
| Encore Health & Rehabilitation | Malvern | Skilled nursing facilities | C | 5.7 |
| Newton County Healthcare Association, Inc | Jasper | Convalescent homes or conval | C | 5.7 |
| The Fresh Market 153 | Rogers | Supermarkets and Other Groce | D | 5.7 |
| Arfos - Ft. Smith | Ft. Smith | Couriers and Express Deliver | C | 5.7 |
| RHM Gin & Warehouse | Marked Tree | Cotton ginning | D | 5.7 |
| OKF Transportation | Fort Smith | Chickens, processing, fresh, | D | 5.7 |
| Propak - Clarksville, AR | Clarksville | Wood Container and Pallet Ma | D | 5.7 |
| Anthony Timberlands, Inc. Bearden | Bearden | Dimension lumber, softwood, | D | 5.7 |
| Pine Bluff Truck and Trailer, Inc. | Pine Bluff | Truck repair shops, general | F | 5.7 |
| Wm 3231 | Greenwood | - | D | 5.7 |
| Highland Industrial Park, Inc. | Camden | General warehousing and stor | C | 5.7 |
| 2807-0597 | Hot Springs | Homecenter | D | 5.7 |
| Windmill Rice Company | Jonesboro | Grain mills, rice | D | 5.7 |
| Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Jonesboro | Jonesboro | Rehabilitation hospitals (ex | D | 5.7 |
| Roberts-McNutt NW | Springdale | Roof membrane installation | F | 5.7 |
| Bass Cat & Yar-Craft Boats | Midway | Boats (i.e., suitable or int | D | 5.7 |
| Greenhurst Nursing Center | Charleston | Nursing homes | C | 5.7 |
| OKF Fort Smith Reed Lane Plant | Fort Smith | Chickens, processing, fresh, | D | 5.7 |
| Standard Materials Group | Fayetteville | Concrete batch plants (inclu | D | 5.7 |
| West Memphis Custodial | West Memphis | - | D | 5.7 |
| Baptist Health-Ft Sm | Fort Smith | - | D | 5.7 |
| Intimidator Group | Batesville | Grass mowing equipment, powe | D | 5.7 |
| Sringdale | Springdale | Batters, prepared, made from | D | 5.7 |
| 8799 | Bentonville | General Warehousing and Stor | C | 5.7 |
| Americold West Memphis - Cb | West Memphis | Other Direct Selling Establi | D | 5.7 |
| 2743 | Sherwood | Supermarkets and Other Groce | D | 5.6 |
| Wm 16 | Van Buren | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | D | 5.6 |
| 045976-Morrilton Po | Morrilton | Mail and Parcel Delivery | D | 5.6 |
| Cox & Luter, Inc. | Knobel | Grain merchant wholesalers | F | 5.6 |
| Sii - Marked Tree | Marked Tree | Tanks, storage, plastics or | D | 5.6 |
| Wm 144 | Fayetteville | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | D | 5.6 |
| Hot Springs | Hot Springs | Cable laying (e.g., cable te | F | 5.6 |
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.