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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 39 of 88| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central Moloney,Inc.--Transformers Plant | Pine Bluff | Distribution transformers, e | C | 3.3 |
| Delta Asphalt of Arkansas Construction | Paragould | - | C | 3.3 |
| Forsgren, INC. | Fort Smith | Pavement, highway, road, str | C | 3.3 |
| Bilco Company Trumann | Trumann | Doors, metal, manufacturing | C | 3.3 |
| Monticello Ar | Monticello | Other Grocery and Related Pr | D | 3.3 |
| Aromatique, Inc | Heber Springs | Potpourri manufacturing | C | 3.3 |
| Wm 66 | Clarksville | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | C | 3.3 |
| Action Inc | Barling | Mechanical contractors | C | 3.3 |
| Patriot Underground Solutions Specialists LLC | Ozark | Construction | C | 3.3 |
| Molex Connectors LLC | Maumelle | Connectors, electronic (e.g. | C | 3.3 |
| Pace Industries, B&C Division | Harrison | Zinc die-castings, unfinishe | C | 3.3 |
| Arkansas Children's Northwest | Springdale | Children's hospitals, genera | A | 3.3 |
| 2498 - Rogers | Rogers | Discount Department Stores | C | 3.3 |
| Amazon.com Services LLC - LIT1 | Little Rock | General Warehousing and Stor | B | 3.3 |
| Dillard's Dollars, Inc. | Mabelville | General warehousing and stor | B | 3.3 |
| 025-00469 | West Memphis | Supermarkets and Other Groce | C | 3.3 |
| All American Poly of Arkansas | North Little Rock | Plastics film and unlaminate | C | 3.3 |
| Webb Wheel Inc. | Siloam Springs | Calipers, brake, automotive, | B | 3.3 |
| 046741-Paragould Po | Paragould | Mail and Parcel Delivery | B | 3.3 |
| 6701 | Bentonville | General Auto Repair (include | D | 3.3 |
| Brentwood Industries Inc Hope | Hope | Awnings, rigid plastics or f | C | 3.3 |
| EPC-Fayetteville | Fayetteville | Bends, pipe, made from purch | C | 3.3 |
| The Blossoms at Hot Springs | Hot Springs | Nursing homes | B | 3.3 |
| UTC Railcar Repair Services - Texarkana, AR | Texarkana | Locomotive and rail car repa | B | 3.3 |
| TMS Ft Smith | Ft Smith | Blast furnace slag processin | C | 3.3 |
| Jonesboro Roofing Co., Inc. | Jonesboro | Roofing Contractors | C | 3.3 |
| Little Rock | Little Rock | Marine supplies (except plea | D | 3.3 |
| NSE - Urbana | El Dorado | General freight trucking, lo | B | 3.3 |
| Arfor - Forrest City | Forrest City | Couriers and Express Deliver | B | 3.3 |
| Bargo Equipment DBA Bargo Machining | Fayetteville | Machine shops | C | 3.3 |
| PSSI - 0525 Tyson Foods Inc. - Pine Bluff | Pine Bluff | Janitorial Services | B | 3.3 |
| 4579 | Fort Smith | Supermarkets and Other Groce | C | 3.3 |
| Superior Linen Service--Eastern Division | Springdale | Laundries, linen and uniform | D | 3.3 |
| Administration | Benton | Mental health facilities, re | C | 3.3 |
| Peco Foods Inc.- Newark Feed Mill | Newark | Animal feed mills (except do | C | 3.3 |
| Greenway Equipment Jonesboro | Jonesboro | Tractor, farm or constructio | D | 3.3 |
| StoneBridge of Cabot | Cabot | Assisted-living facilities w | C | 3.3 |
| Fayetteville, AR-BioLife | Fayetteville | Plasmapheresis Center | C | 3.3 |
| P.I. Roof Maintenance, Inc | North Little Rock | Asphalt roof shingle install | C | 3.3 |
| Lawerence Electric | El Dorado | Low voltage electrical work | C | 3.3 |
| American Railcar Industries | Marmaduke | Railroad cars and car equipm | C | 3.3 |
| 025-00623 | Little Rock | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | C | 3.2 |
| 025-00624 | Russellville | Supermarkets and Other Groce | C | 3.2 |
| Producers Rice Mill, Inc.Stuttgart Dryer | Stuttgart | Rice drying | B | 3.2 |
| QSI Waldron | Waldron | Cleaning building exteriors | B | 3.2 |
| Tweedy Transport, Inc. | Pocahontas | Motor freight carrier, gener | B | 3.2 |
| Entergy Blytheville | Blytheville | Distribution of electric pow | F | 3.2 |
| Hot Springs 3809 | Hot Springs | Home centers, building mater | C | 3.2 |
| Stuttgart 3302 | Stuttgart | Home centers, building mater | C | 3.2 |
| Linen King - Conway | Conway | Industrial launderers | D | 3.2 |
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.