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.

Arkansas grade distribution 4,392 graded establishments · width = share

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 TCR

Arkansas'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 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

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Employer CityIndustryGradeAvg TCR
Riceland Foods - Corning Drier Facility Corning Milling rice C 2.7
2598 Lowe S of Van Buren Ar Van Buren Homecenter B 2.7
Wm 127 Malvern Warehouse Clubs and Supercen B 2.7
Wm 1065 Hope Warehouse Clubs and Supercen B 2.7
119 Batesville Warehouse Clubs and Supercen B 2.7
Psl 131 Marshall Landscape care and maintenan B 2.7
Further Processing Springdale Poultry slaughtering and pro C 2.7
Kitchen South Siloam Springs - B 2.7
Lowell CSM Lowell Buildings, prefabricated met C 2.7
Bay Bay Planting crops B 2.7
Danville Plant Danville Poultry Processing C 2.7
Mercy Hospital Berryville Berryville General medical and surgical A 2.7
SAHCDC Stuttgart Day care centers for disable B 2.7
424 Bentonville snack and nonalcoholic bever C 2.7
McGehee, AR Mcgehee Agricultural chemicals merch D 2.7
Beaver Lake Concrete Rogers Dry bulk carrier, truck, lon B 2.7
Quality Millwork, Inc. Springdale Building materials supply de B 2.7
Rockline Industries Booneville Booneville Paper products (except offic C 2.7
569 North Little Rock - D 2.7
JBR Jonesboro General freight trucking, lo B 2.7
CGI Federal Inc - Hot Springs Passport Center Hot Springs Passport Production C 2.7
Great Dane Jonesboro Jonesboro Automobile transporter trail C 2.7
Wm 348 Monticello Warehouse Clubs and Supercen B 2.7
Wm 7317 Greenbrier - B 2.7
Hot Springs Village POA Hot Springs Village Apartment managers' offices D 2.7
National Management Resources Lyon College Batesville Building cleaning services, B 2.7
Mechanical Jonesboro Heating, ventilation and air C 2.7
Eventures, LLC Fayetteville Party rental supply centers D 2.7
DANCOR TRANSIT INC Van Buren Ark. Van Buren Motor freight carrier, gener B 2.7
Stuttgart Rice Division, Riceland Foods Inc. Stuttgart Rice, brown, manufacturing C 2.7
0162 - Little Rock North North Little Rock Discount Department Stores B 2.7
Middleton Heat and Air Bryant Air-conditioning system (exc C 2.7
Ryerson - RMP Hickman Blytheville Pipe, metal, merchant wholes D 2.7
TNM Lumberworks of Ark, Inc Forman Sawmills C 2.7
Umphers Construction Hot Springs Structural steel erecting or C 2.7
Systems Plant Services, Inc.- Blytheville, AR Remote Shop El Dorado Mechanical contractors C 2.7
Peco Foods Inc.-Feedmill Corning Chicken feeds, prepared, man B 2.6
Danville Hatchery Danville Poultry Hatcheries B 2.6
Alessi Keyes Construction North Little Rock Commercial building construc C 2.6
Unit #0663 North Little Rock Retail B 2.6
339 Fordyce All Other General Merchandis B 2.6
S03989 - Two Pine Landfill North Little Rock - C 2.6
Gerdau - 01 Fort Smith Steel Manufacturing B 2.6
Sherwood Nursing & Rehab-CAN Sherwood Skilled nursing facilities A 2.6
The Blossoms at North Little Rock North Little Rock Nursing homes A 2.6
Fts- Fort Smith Fort Smith General freight trucking, lo B 2.6
VBC Van Buren - B 2.6
Wadley Regional Medical Ctr at Hope Hope General medical and surgical A 2.6
TRA - Lowell Lowell 488490 Other Support Activit B 2.6
Valley View Agri Jonesboro Conveyor system installation C 2.6
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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.

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.