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 31 of 88| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UAFS Overhead | Fort Smith | - | D | 4.2 |
| Pine Bluff School District | Pine Bluff | - | D | 4.2 |
| The Village at Valley Ranch | Little Rock | Skilled nursing facilities | B | 4.2 |
| North Arkansas Electric Cooperative - Salem | Salem | Distribution of electric pow | F | 4.2 |
| Jason Hydrotherapy | North Little Rock | Bathtubs, plastics, manufact | D | 4.2 |
| Fort Smith FTS | Fort Smith | Trucking, general freight, l | C | 4.2 |
| Fields Services, Inc. | Springdale | Janitorial services | C | 4.2 |
| Malone's Mechanical Inc. | Van Buren | Mechanical contractors | D | 4.1 |
| Ben E Keith Foods Mid South | North Little Rock | General-line groceries merch | D | 4.1 |
| 1187 Benton, Ar | Benton | Family Clothing Stores | D | 4.1 |
| LJB | Jonesboro | Freight Transportation | C | 4.1 |
| Waldron Growout | Waldron | Support Activities For Anima | C | 4.1 |
| 5267 Bella Vista | Bella Vista | 453310 Used Merchandise Stor | D | 4.1 |
| Wm 76 | Berryville | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | D | 4.1 |
| Ouachita County Medical Center | Camden | General medical and surgical | B | 4.1 |
| Thompson Construction Group, Inc. - Big River Steel | Osceola | Industrial building (except | D | 4.1 |
| Zero Mountain Russellville | Russellville | Bonded warehousing, refriger | B | 4.1 |
| 5250 Searcy | Searcy | 453310 Used Merchandise Stor | D | 4.1 |
| Little Rock Embassy Suites | Little Rock | Hotels and Motels | D | 4.1 |
| NIBCO Blytheville | Blytheville | Cast iron pipe and pipe fitt | D | 4.1 |
| Louisville Bedding Arizona | Tolleson | Curtains and draperies, wind | D | 4.1 |
| Conway AR FXFE-CWY | Conway | Less Than Truckload General | C | 4.1 |
| Hino Motors Manufacturing Arkansas | Marion | Assembly line rebuilding of | B | 4.1 |
| Wm 6971 | Pea Ridge | - | D | 4.1 |
| Wm 8266 | North Little Rock | - | D | 4.1 |
| 133 | Ashdown | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | D | 4.1 |
| Parkview | Hope | Group homes, intellectual an | C | 4.1 |
| BLY | Blytheville | General freight trucking, lo | C | 4.1 |
| 4021-500275500 | Conway | Food Services | D | 4.1 |
| American Tubing Arkansas LLC | Springdale | Bends, pipe, made from purch | D | 4.1 |
| WTPS Osceola MRT | Osceola | Stevedoring services | C | 4.1 |
| Cresline-West, Inc. | Phoenix | PVC pipe manufacturing | D | 4.1 |
| Univ of Ark Ft Sm-JN | Fort Smith | - | C | 4.1 |
| 3164 | Bentonville | Supermarkets and Other Groce | C | 4.1 |
| Kiech-Shauver-Miller Gin Co. | Monette | Cotton ginning | C | 4.1 |
| Wm 4825 | Hot Springs | - | C | 4.1 |
| PSSI - 0532 Tyson Foods Inc. - Rogers (Chick N Quick) | Rogers | Janitorial Services | C | 4.1 |
| 4186-00378 | Pine Bluff | All Other General Merchandis | C | 4.1 |
| ADC | Harrison | Aluminum die-casting foundri | D | 4.1 |
| Wm 296 | Dardanelle | - | C | 4.0 |
| 2807-2230 | Bentonville | Homecenter | C | 4.0 |
| Semahtronix - Flippin | Flippin | Harness assemblies for elect | D | 4.0 |
| Newly Weds Foods | Springdale | Batters, prepared, made from | D | 4.0 |
| St Marys Reg Medical 1344 263j | Russellville | - | C | 4.0 |
| Covington Court Health and Rehabilitation Center | Fort Smith | Skilled Nursing Facility | B | 4.0 |
| Wm 91 | Forrest City | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | C | 4.0 |
| West Fraser - Russellville Mill | Russellville | Sawmills | D | 4.0 |
| 1409 Harrison Ar | Harrison | Home Centers | C | 4.0 |
| Hot Springs Inpatient Center | Hot Springs | Hospices, inpatient care | B | 4.0 |
| 169 | Lonoke | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | C | 4.0 |
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.