TCR, interpreted
Far above average
4.4 avg TCR
State profile · OSHA ITA
Arkansas workplace safety
How 4,393 OSHA-reporting employers across Arkansas compare on workplace injuries, 2016–2024. Average TCR uses the 3,782 establishments with a credible rate (see methodology).
- 4,393
- Employers
- 4.4
- Avg TCR (rated)
- 67,269
- Injuries (all)
- 117
- Fatalities (all)
Arkansas vs all states by OSHA-reporting employer count
Where this state's ITA establishment inventory sits among every tracked state and territory (coverage signal, not a safety ranking)
4,393 33rd of 54 higher than 21 of 54 states
States and territories, banded by OSHA ITA reporting employer count
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Source official public datasets · 2026
The state picture
Arkansas's 3,782 rated 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 · rated subset
- 3,782
- rated employers
- 4,393
- all reporting employers
- 67,269
- recordable injuries (all)
Inventory counts and injury/fatality totals cover all 4,393 ITA establishments; the average TCR excludes zero-rate and corrupt-hours filings. See Methodology → Three Populations.
A · 20% B · 16% C · 30% D · 18% F · 15%
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.
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A second cut tells a different story: ranked by rated-subset injury rate alone, Arkansas is #5 of 54. Ranked instead by fatalities per rated employer establishment (same 3,782-employer subset), 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 on the same population 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. The published state average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 4.4 injuries per 100 full-time workers uses the 3,782 establishments with a credible rate (zero-rate and corrupt-hours filings stay in the inventory counts above but are excluded from the average, see methodology).
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 3 of 88| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SpringHill Suites Little Rock West | Little Rock | Hotel management services (i | F | 15.1 |
| Lit-Ground Ops | Little Rock | Scheduled Passenger Air Tran | F | 15.1 |
| Russellville Nursing and Rehabilitation Center | Russellville | Skilled nursing facilities | F | 15.1 |
| 6458-ZTXA | Texarkana | Local Messengers and Local D | F | 15.1 |
| SCNC, Inc. dba Spring Creek Health & Rehab | Cabot | Skilled nursing facilities | F | 15.0 |
| Marck Recycling & Waste Services of NEA | Jonesboro | Waste collection services, n | F | 15.0 |
| General Pallets, Inc. | Fort Smith | Pallets, wood or wood and me | F | 15.0 |
| B&B Rentals, LLC | Springdale | Tire dealers, automotive | F | 15.0 |
| Edward L Baker Enterprises Inc Corning Facility | Corning | Box shook manufacturing | F | 14.9 |
| Mt. View | Mt. View | Mental health facilities, re | F | 14.9 |
| INDUSTRIAL_1367929 | Little Rock | Mail and Parcel Delivery | F | 14.8 |
| Forrest City (Arfor) | Forrest City | Courier Services Except by A | F | 14.8 |
| Prescott SNF Operations LLC | Prescott | Skilled nursing facilities | F | 14.8 |
| Lake View Terrace Memory Care Residence | Lake Havasu City | Assisted-living facilities w | F | 14.8 |
| Heritage Square Healthcare Center | Blytheville | Skilled nursing facilities | F | 14.8 |
| Intimidator Group BBB | Batesville | Grass mowing equipment, powe | F | 14.8 |
| Tri County Farmers Association - Slovak/Stuttgart | Stuttgart | Farm supply stores | F | 14.6 |
| Westwood Health and Rehab, Inc. | Springdale | Skilled nursing facilities | F | 14.6 |
| 045139-Lit-Forest Park Sta | Little Rock | Mail and Parcel Delivery | F | 14.6 |
| Highlands of Stamps | Stamps | Group homes for the disabled | F | 14.5 |
| Fort Smith, Ar #00195 | Fort Smith | Retail Hardware Stores | F | 14.5 |
| Man-Inc-Mansfield Juvenile Treat | Mansfield | RESIDENTIAL YOUTH CARE FACIL | F | 14.4 |
| BVNC, Inc. dba Mountain Meadows Health and Rehabilitation | Batesville | Skilled nursing facilities | F | 14.4 |
| Manila Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Inc. dba Manila Nursing Center | Manila | Skilled nursing facilities | F | 14.3 |
| STUTTGART_1383811 | Stuttgart | Mail and Parcel Delivery | F | 14.2 |
| OKF Fort Smith Feed Mill | Fort Smith | Canning poultry (except baby | F | 14.2 |
| 000021107 Walmart Hq Dgtc | Bentonville | Food Services | F | 14.2 |
| WRNC, Inc. dba Chapel Woods Health and Rehabilitation | Warren | Skilled nursing facilities | F | 14.1 |
| Riverview Behavioral Health | Texarkana | Psychiatric and Substance Ab | F | 14.1 |
| Main Office Little Rock_1438578 | Little Rock | Mail and Parcel Delivery | F | 14.0 |
| Valley Behavioral Health | Fort Smith | Psychiatric and Substance Ab | F | 14.0 |
| Artex - Texarkana | Texarkana | Couriers and Express Deliver | F | 13.8 |
| 046413-Nlr-Main Office Sta | North Little Rock | Mail and Parcel Delivery | F | 13.7 |
| NWA Nursing Center, LLC dba The Maples at Har-Ber Meadows | Springdale | Skilled nursing facilities | F | 13.7 |
| ASHER_1353468 | Little Rock | Mail and Parcel Delivery | F | 13.7 |
| Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society | Mountain Home | Nursing homes | F | 13.7 |
| Occdp Nwa | Lowell | Artificially carbonated wate | F | 13.6 |
| Beebe Retirement Center, Inc. | Beebe | Skilled nursing facilities | F | 13.5 |
| Ritter Production Farms, Inc. | Judsonia | Blackberry farming | F | 13.5 |
| 0094 - Little Rock, Ar | Little Rock | Retail Stores | F | 13.5 |
| TWO MEN AND A TRUCK- Bentonville AR | Bentonville | Van lines, moving and storag | F | 13.4 |
| Chapel Ridge Health and Rehab | Fort Smith | Nursing homes | F | 13.3 |
| The Home City Ice Company Rogers | Rogers | Ice (except dry ice) manufac | F | 13.3 |
| AFNC, Inc. dba EagleCrest Nursing and Rehab | Ash Flat | Skilled nursing facilities | F | 13.3 |
| Fayetteville Health and Rehabilitation Center | Fayetteville | Skilled Nursing Facility | F | 13.2 |
| West Shores | Hot Springs | Retirement homes with nursin | F | 13.2 |
| 6458-ZFTS | Fort Smith | Local Messengers and Local D | F | 13.2 |
| Advanced Care Hospital of White County | Searcy | Extended care hospitals (exc | F | 13.2 |
| EZ Loader Trailers | Midway | Boat transporter trailers, s | F | 13.1 |
| Anthony Timberlands - Malvern | Malvern | Sawmills | F | 13.1 |
Nationwide states with similar injury rates or employer scale
Two PlainSafetyScore-derived peer sets for Arkansas: nearest states and territories by rated-subset average Total Case Rate and by OSHA-reporting employer inventory. These are cross-state neighborhoods, not the employer list above.
Similar average TCR
Nearest states by rated-subset Total Case Rate (4.4 here).
Similar employer inventory
Nearest states by reporting employer count (4,393 here).
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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainSafetyScore
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.