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 57 of 88| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bbs Ar | Bentonville | Janitorial services | A | 1.9 |
| 2576-07805816-5816 | Little Rock | Mental Health Facility | A | 1.9 |
| Arkansas Children'S | Little Rock | - | B | 1.9 |
| Fleming Network & Security Services Inc. | Bryant | Electric contracting | B | 1.9 |
| Woodfield Trucking | Camden | General freight trucking, lo | A | 1.9 |
| American Greetings Corporation | Osceola | Greeting card publishers and | F | 1.9 |
| Enterprise Rent A Car-51N4/51V4 | Little Rock | Automobile rental | D | 1.9 |
| Camden Operations | Hampton | Rockets, ammunition (except | B | 1.9 |
| Wm 7842 | Bentonville | General Warehousing and Stor | A | 1.9 |
| Smith's Ready Mix | Nashville | Ready-mix concrete manufactu | B | 1.9 |
| 025-00632 | Little Rock | Supermarkets and Other Groce | B | 1.9 |
| General Cable Malvern | Malvern | Copper products made by roll | B | 1.9 |
| Triumph Airborne Structures | Hot Springs National Park | Maintenance and repair servi | A | 1.8 |
| BHGAR - Fayetteville Borick Dr (AR007) | Fayetteville | Natural gas distribution sys | D | 1.8 |
| North Arkansas Electric Cooperative - Mountain Home | Mountain Home | Distribution of electric pow | D | 1.8 |
| Hoover Treated Wood Products - Pine Bluff | Pine Bluff | wood preserving | B | 1.8 |
| Hot Spring Continuous Rolling Plant | Malvern | Aluminum sheet made by flat | B | 1.8 |
| Branch 1/5/8/12 - Hot Springs | Hot Springs | Plumbing supply stores | B | 1.8 |
| 5245 Texarkana | Texarkana | 453310 Used Merchandise Stor | B | 1.8 |
| Chi St Vincent Morrilton | Morrilton | Food Service Contractors | B | 1.8 |
| TXK-ODFL | Texarkana | General Freight Trucking, lo | A | 1.8 |
| Lew Thompson and Son Trucking, Inc. | Huntsville | General freight trucking, lo | A | 1.8 |
| PSSI - 0085 Simmons Foods Inc. - Van Buren | Van Buren | Janitorial Services | A | 1.8 |
| CHRISTUS Dubuis Hospital of Fort Smith | Fort Smith | Extended care hospitals (exc | A | 1.8 |
| St. Vincent Health System - EV | Little Rock | - | A | 1.8 |
| Alliance Rubber Company | Hot Springs | Rubber bands manufacturing | B | 1.8 |
| AR Operation | Batesville | Broiler chicken production | A | 1.8 |
| Emerson EWP | Emerson | Manufacturing | B | 1.8 |
| The Blossoms at Cumberland | Little Rock | Skilled nursing facilities | A | 1.8 |
| White River Materials, Inc | Mtn Home | Ready-mix concrete manufactu | B | 1.8 |
| Holmes Erection, Inc | Fort Smith | Crane rental with operator | B | 1.8 |
| Pet Solutions | Danville | Fats, animal, rendering | B | 1.8 |
| BHGAR - Lowell (AR016) | Lowell | Distribution of natural gas | D | 1.8 |
| Pal-Serv LLC | North Little Rock | Pallets, wood or wood and me | B | 1.8 |
| OKF Newlon Warehouse | Fort Smith | Chickens, processing, fresh, | B | 1.8 |
| Atlantic Track Runway Services | Texarkana | Prestressed concrete beam, s | B | 1.8 |
| 1627 Lowe S of N. Little Rock Ar | North Little Rock | Homecenter | B | 1.8 |
| J A Riggs Tractor Company | Little Rock | Industrial equipment and mac | C | 1.8 |
| AHF Products | Warren | Cornices, wood, manufacturin | B | 1.8 |
| Tarco Plant | North Little Rock | Asphalt saturated mats and f | B | 1.8 |
| Midwest Block - Fayb | Springdale | Producer of Pavers and Block | B | 1.8 |
| Murphree Family Investments, Inc. d/b/a Wade's Heating, Air Conditioning and Electric | Batesville | Electrical wiring contractor | B | 1.8 |
| Canfor Southern Pine | Eldorado | Beams, wood, made from logs | B | 1.8 |
| Bay, AR | Bay | Agricultural chemicals merch | C | 1.8 |
| AR - Klipsch | Hope | Loudspeakers manufacturing | B | 1.8 |
| INDUSTRIAL IRON WORKS, INC., dba ADAMS FERTILIZER EQUIPMENT | Dewitt | Fertilizing machinery, farm- | B | 1.8 |
| Ll Glenn Rd LLC | Little Rock | Automobile dealers, new only | B | 1.8 |
| LRS - Bethel Heights AR | Bethel Heights | Other Nonhaz Waste Treat & D | B | 1.8 |
| JBT Foodtech Russellville | Russellville | Food Production Machinery Ma | B | 1.8 |
| Unit #1961 | Fort Smith | Retail | B | 1.8 |
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.