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 36 of 88| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Little Rock, AR Office CS | North Little Rock | Cellular phone tower constru | D | 3.6 |
| TownePlace Suites Bentonville | Bentonville | Hotels (except casino hotels | D | 3.6 |
| Mundo-Tech, Inc | Rogers | Wrought iron or steel pipe a | C | 3.6 |
| Harrison (Arhar) | Harrison | Courier Services Except by A | B | 3.6 |
| Custom-Pak Arkansas | Walnut Ridge | Awnings, rigid plastics or f | C | 3.6 |
| 724010000 | Jonesboro | Transportation Air Cargo | B | 3.6 |
| Grandeur Fasteners, Inc. | Danville | Bolts, metal, manufacturing | C | 3.6 |
| Oakley Pendleton Warehouse | Dumas | Mixing purchased fertilizer | C | 3.6 |
| Industrial | El Dorado | Natural nonfood coloring, ma | C | 3.6 |
| National Custom Hollow Metal | Little Rock | Frames, door and window, met | C | 3.6 |
| 3479 | Rogers | Supermarkets and Other Groce | C | 3.6 |
| Gateway Tire of Arkansas | Trumann | Motor vehicle tire and tube | D | 3.6 |
| Little Rock (Arlit) | Little Rock | Courier Services Except by A | B | 3.6 |
| RVI-Texarkana | Texarkana | Rendering And Meat Byproduct | C | 3.6 |
| Armal - Malvern Center | Malvern | Couriers and Express Deliver | B | 3.6 |
| Wood Specialty Products, Inc. | Rogers | Home stereo systems manufact | C | 3.6 |
| North West Medical Center - Springdale | Springdale | - | B | 3.6 |
| Crow Paving and Construction | Morrilton | Commercial building construc | D | 3.6 |
| SAF-HOLLAND, Inc. - Dumas | Dumas | Automotive, truck and bus su | B | 3.6 |
| THLP CO, LLC Searcy | Searcy | Ice cream manufacturing | C | 3.6 |
| 2643-03010001-030108 | Morrilton | General Medical and Surgical | A | 3.6 |
| 235 | Corning | Discount Department Stores | C | 3.6 |
| 200Pocahontas | Pocahontas | Rendering plants | C | 3.6 |
| Central Moloney LLC | Pine Bluff | Specialty transformers, elec | C | 3.6 |
| Wm 8 | Morrilton | - | C | 3.6 |
| 124 | Little Rock | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | C | 3.6 |
| Allen Engineering | Paragould | Concrete finishing machinery | C | 3.5 |
| Homewood Suites Fort Smith | Fort Smith | Hotels (except casino hotels | C | 3.5 |
| Wm 4168 | Beebe | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | C | 3.5 |
| Big Lots Store #1546 FORT SMITH, AR | Fort Smith | Retail Other | C | 3.5 |
| 2575 | Conway | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | C | 3.5 |
| C092 West Memphis PC | West Memphis | - | C | 3.5 |
| Jonesboro AR FXFE-JBR | Jonesboro | Less Than Truckload General | B | 3.5 |
| 0235 Lowe S of Russellville Ar | Russellville | Homecenter | C | 3.5 |
| 709 | Sherwood | Drywall and Insulation Contr | D | 3.5 |
| Ft. Smith | Van Buren | Trucking | B | 3.5 |
| Wabash Harrison | Harrison | Wood Flooring Manufacturing | C | 3.5 |
| Producers Rice Ingredients | Stuttgart | Rice milling | C | 3.5 |
| Batesville Ar Distribution | Batesville | Other Grocery and Related Pr | D | 3.5 |
| FSM-ODFL | Fort Smith | General Freight Trucking, lo | B | 3.5 |
| Sloan Valve | Augusta | Foundries (except die-castin | C | 3.5 |
| Zero Mountain Lowell | Lowell | Bonded warehousing, refriger | B | 3.5 |
| AR Lamp Manufacturing | Van Buren | Decorative area lighting fix | C | 3.5 |
| Tmx2553 - Russellville | Russellville | - | B | 3.5 |
| Little Rock Hauling | North Little Rock | Refuse hauling, local | D | 3.5 |
| Dardanelle Growout | Dardanelle | Support Activities For Anima | B | 3.5 |
| Essick Air Products | Little Rock | Portable humidifiers and deh | C | 3.5 |
| Area Agency on Aging of NW AR | Harrison | Home care of elderly, non-me | C | 3.5 |
| Powers of Arkansas- North Little Rock Office | North Little Rock | Heating, ventilation and air | D | 3.5 |
| 0597 Lowe S of Hot Springs Ar | Hot Springs | Homecenter | C | 3.5 |
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.