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 41 of 88| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entergy Magnolia | Magnolia | Distribution of electric pow | F | 3.1 |
| General Baptist Nursing Home of Piggott | Piggott | Skilled nursing facilities | A | 3.1 |
| Heber Springs | Batesville | Satellite dish, household-ty | C | 3.1 |
| Finzer Roller - Arkansas | Searcy | Extruded, molded or lathe-cu | C | 3.1 |
| East End Towing | Little Rock | Motor vehicle towing service | B | 3.1 |
| Best Manufacturing, Inc | Jonesboro | Sheet metal work (except sta | C | 3.1 |
| 457 - Rogers-AR | Rogers | - | C | 3.1 |
| 6094 | Bentonville | General Warehousing and Stor | B | 3.1 |
| 5706 | Little Rock | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | C | 3.1 |
| Diamond Pet Foods - Dumas AR | Dumas | Animal feeds, prepared, dog | C | 3.1 |
| Riceland Foods - Weiner Drier Facility | Weiner | Rice milling | C | 3.1 |
| 025-00644 | Little Rock | Supermarkets and Other Groce | C | 3.1 |
| Wm 1105 | North Little Rock | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | C | 3.1 |
| Wm 6953 | Centerton | - | C | 3.1 |
| Antique Brick and Block | Little Rock | Asphalt and concrete mixture | D | 3.1 |
| 8104 | Little Rock | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | C | 3.1 |
| Mablevale | Mabelvale | Overhead conveyors manufactu | C | 3.1 |
| Unit #2436 | Batesville | Retail | C | 3.1 |
| HRA BatesYouth | Batesville | Residential Mental Health an | C | 3.1 |
| Americold Logistics, LLC: Lowell | Lowell | Warehousing, refrigerated | B | 3.1 |
| ADESA Little Rock | Little Rock | Motor vehicle merchant whole | D | 3.1 |
| Rental Concepts, LLC | Springdale | Tire dealers, automotive | C | 3.1 |
| 49 - Fort Smith | Fort Smith | Industrial Launderers | D | 3.1 |
| J.V. Manufacturing, Inc (Springdale AR) | Springdale | Trash and garbage compactors | C | 3.1 |
| 4186-02559 | Siloam Springs | Dollar Stores | C | 3.1 |
| STR0765 | Russellville | Department stores except dis | C | 3.1 |
| Wm 5738 | Springdale | - | C | 3.1 |
| 7317 | Greenbrier | Supermarkets and Other Groce | C | 3.1 |
| HES Benton | Benton | Environmental remediation se | C | 3.1 |
| 0236 Lowe S of Conway Ar | Conway | Homecenter | C | 3.1 |
| Good Day Farm Arkansas | Pine Bluff | Herb farming, grown under co | B | 3.1 |
| Salem Place Nursing and Rehabilitation Center | Conway | Nursing homes | A | 3.1 |
| 1411 Batesville | Batesville | Home Centers | C | 3.1 |
| 24 | Jacksonville | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | C | 3.1 |
| Bill's Electric Inc. Arkansas | Lowell | Electric contracting | C | 3.1 |
| Zero Mountain Logistics | Ft. Smith | Dry bulk carrier, truck, lon | B | 3.1 |
| 23 | North Little Rock | auto parts & accs stores | C | 3.1 |
| Little Rock AR FXFE-LIT | Little Rock | Less Than Truckload General | B | 3.1 |
| 025-00625 | Conway | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | C | 3.1 |
| 358 | Alma | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | C | 3.1 |
| 4969 | Bentonville | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | C | 3.1 |
| 6704 | Bentonville | Warehouse Storage | B | 3.1 |
| Karcher - Fayetteville | Fayetteville | General warehousing and stor | B | 3.1 |
| #039 Piggly Wiggly | Monticello | - | C | 3.1 |
| Hino Motors Manufacturing U.S.A., Inc. | Marion | Assembly line rebuilding of | B | 3.1 |
| Telamon Corporation - Clarksville | Clarksville | Telecommunications equipment | C | 3.1 |
| West Memphis SD | West Memphis | - | C | 3.1 |
| Lockheed Martin Corporation US AR Camden Arkansas Hwy 205 (1527) | Camden | - | C | 3.1 |
| Ritter Communications - Millington | Millington | Telecommunications carriers, | F | 3.1 |
| Sodexo at Henderson State Grill | Arkadelphia | Food Service Contractors | C | 3.1 |
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.