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
Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more states. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
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 42 of 88| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joshen Paper & Packaging of AR | Little Rock | Bags, paper and disposable p | D | 3.1 |
| Arsea - Searcy | Searcy | Couriers and Express Deliver | A | 3.1 |
| Ritter Communications - Millington | Millington | Telecommunications carriers, | F | 3.1 |
| Arkansas Childrens Northwest | Springdale | - | B | 3.1 |
| Mercy Hospital Boonville | Boonville | General medical and surgical | A | 3.1 |
| Sodexo at Henderson State Grill | Arkadelphia | Food Service Contractors | C | 3.1 |
| Morrilton Hatchery | Morrilton | Poultry Hatcheries | B | 3.0 |
| Fayetteville Hatchery (CV) | Fayetteville | Poultry Hatcheries | B | 3.0 |
| Primary Poultry - Springdale AR Plant | Springdale | Turkeys, slaughtering and dr | C | 3.0 |
| Wm 714 | Helena-West Helena | - | C | 3.0 |
| ABB Motors and Mechanical, Inc. - Southwest Die | Fort Smith | Aluminum die-casting foundri | C | 3.0 |
| Atwoods 49 | Camden | Retail Store | C | 3.0 |
| 4054-Abs 0021 0611 | Texarkana | Supermarkets and Other Groce | C | 3.0 |
| Ritter Communications - Rogers | Rogers | Telecommunications carriers, | F | 3.0 |
| Peco Foods Inc.-Hatchery | Pocahontas | Chicken hatcheries | B | 3.0 |
| Weaver-Bailey Contractors,Inc. | El Paso | Pavement, highway, road, str | C | 3.0 |
| River Stone Construction, Inc. | Dardanelle | Masonry contractors | C | 3.0 |
| Leola Lumber Mill | Leola | Lumber, softwood dimension, | C | 3.0 |
| Roehm America LLC | Osceola | Acrylic film and unlaminated | C | 3.0 |
| 025-00636 | Little Rock | Supermarkets and Other Groce | C | 3.0 |
| PRT, Inc. | Nashville | General freight trucking, lo | B | 3.0 |
| Rich Mountain Electric Cooperative, Inc. | Mena | Distribution of electric pow | F | 3.0 |
| Harrison Energy Partners NWA | Springdale | Industrial process piping in | C | 3.0 |
| Hiland Dairy | Little Rock | Milk, fluid (except canned), | C | 3.0 |
| Shearer's Foods - Newport | Newport | Tortilla chips manufacturing | B | 3.0 |
| 5000 | West Memphis | Petroleum Lubricating Oil an | C | 3.0 |
| Butterball LLC | Jonesboro | Meat products (e.g., hot dog | C | 3.0 |
| Anthony Wood Treating, Inc. | Hope | Treating purchased wood and | C | 3.0 |
| IFB Solutions - Arkansas | Little Rock | Notebooks (including mechani | C | 3.0 |
| Georg Fischer LLC - Little Rock, AR | Little Rock | Fittings and unions, rigid p | C | 3.0 |
| Gerdau Fort Smith Mill | Fort Smith | Steel mills | C | 3.0 |
| Dalton's Place at Waldron | Waldron | Assisted-living facilities w | B | 3.0 |
| Arkansas Poly & Printing, LLC | Van Buren | Packaging film, plastics, si | C | 3.0 |
| Gerdau Fort Smith | Fort Smith | Mini-mills, steel | C | 3.0 |
| Assembled Products Corporation | Rogers | Golf carts and similar motor | C | 3.0 |
| 21 | Conway | Automobile and Other Motor V | D | 3.0 |
| 106 Springdale | Springdale | Electrical Wholesaler | D | 3.0 |
| Wm 468 | Texarkana | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | C | 3.0 |
| 4168 | Beebe | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | C | 3.0 |
| Baptist Health Medical Center - Van Buren | Van Buren | General medical and surgical | A | 3.0 |
| Select Specialty Hospital - Fort Smith, Inc | Fort Smith | Hospitals, specialty (except | B | 3.0 |
| Springdale Health and Rehabilitation Center | Springdale | Skilled Nursing Facility | A | 3.0 |
| Russellville (BAMG) | Russellville | Tire retreading | C | 3.0 |
| Plant 42 Bentonville | Bentonville | Central-mixed concrete manuf | C | 3.0 |
| 025-00606 | Maumelle | Supermarkets and Other Groce | C | 3.0 |
| 3331 | Pine Bluff | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | C | 3.0 |
| Five Rivers Medical Center | Pocahontas | Hospitals, general medical a | A | 3.0 |
| Making Rainbows Hope/Administration Building | Hope | Child day care services | B | 3.0 |
| AWJ Electric Company LLC | Springdale | Electrical contractors | C | 3.0 |
| Anchor Packaging Inc. Jonesboro | Jonesboro | Bags, plastics film, single | C | 3.0 |
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).
Look up a Arkansas employer → · Compare all states → · How TCR is measured →
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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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.