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 58 of 88| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pinnacle Telecom | Fort Smith | Telecommunications equipment | B | 1.8 |
| AR207 Hope Particleboard | Hope | - | B | 1.8 |
| 1299-Feedmill | Nashville | Animal feed mills (except do | A | 1.8 |
| Mechanical Service Company- North Little Rock | North Little Rock | Central air-conditioning equ | B | 1.8 |
| MAUMELLE_1438595 | Maumelle | Mail and Parcel Delivery | A | 1.8 |
| Actagro Osceola Plant AR | Osceola | Farm Supplies Merchant Whole | C | 1.8 |
| Sodexo at Baptist Health Mc Little Rock | Little Rock | Building Cleaning and Maint | A | 1.8 |
| Unit #2709 | Fayetteville | Retail | B | 1.8 |
| Little Rock Operations Center AK6H | Little Rock | - | D | 1.8 |
| #405 The Mad Butcher | Sheridan | - | B | 1.8 |
| River Valley #1096 | Little Rock | Lawn care supplies (e.g., ch | C | 1.8 |
| Flint Creek | Gentry | Excavating, earthmoving, or | B | 1.8 |
| Lowell | Lowell | Refrigerated warehousing | A | 1.8 |
| Harris Arizona Rebar - Phoenix | Phoenix | Barge sections, prefabricate | B | 1.8 |
| 081 ABC Supply Co., Inc | N Little Rock | Wholesale Building Materials | C | 1.8 |
| Hostess Brands LLC- Arkadelphia | Arkadelphia | Commercial bakeries | B | 1.8 |
| Americold Logistics, LLC: Johnson | Johnson | Warehousing, refrigerated | A | 1.8 |
| Schefers Roofing Company | Rogers | Roofing contractors | B | 1.8 |
| Wm 5837 | Rogers | - | B | 1.8 |
| Wentworth LLC | Magnolia | Nursing homes | A | 1.8 |
| 7842 | Bentonville | General Warehousing and Stor | A | 1.8 |
| International Paper- Russellville Corrugated Container Plant | Russellville | Boxes, corrugated and solid | B | 1.8 |
| Oak Manor Nursing & Rehabilitation Center | Booneville | Homes for the aged with nurs | A | 1.8 |
| 517X | Bentonville | Car rental | D | 1.8 |
| Arkansas Plastics Operations | Sheridan | Plumbing fixtures (e.g., sho | B | 1.8 |
| Home2 Suites Fort Smith | Fort Smith | Hotels (except casino hotels | B | 1.8 |
| 7102110 FPL Big Cypress | Cawfordsville | Power and Communication Line | B | 1.8 |
| NMF inc. | Wynne | Leather footwear manufacturi | B | 1.8 |
| Future Fuel Chemical Company | Batesville | Carbon organic compounds, no | B | 1.8 |
| Delta Plastics Altheimer | Altheimer | General warehousing and stor | A | 1.8 |
| Texarkana Resources for the Disabled | Texarkana | Vocational habilitation job | A | 1.8 |
| United Initiators, Inc. | Helena | Peroxides, organic, manufact | B | 1.8 |
| Flowers Bakery of Texarkana, LLC. | Texarkana | Rolls and buns (including fr | B | 1.8 |
| 167 | Crossett | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | B | 1.8 |
| Marrlin Transit Inc. | Van Buren | Trucking, general freight, l | A | 1.8 |
| Willowbend at Marion | Marion | Skilled nursing facilities | A | 1.8 |
| Klein Tools, Inc. | Fort Smith | Canvas bags manufacturing | B | 1.8 |
| Valley Plating Works, Inc. Arkansas | Conway | Electroplating metals and fo | B | 1.7 |
| Kagome Foods Inc | Osceola | Margarine-butter blend made | B | 1.7 |
| Ll Glenn Plaza Loop LLC | Little Rock | Automobile dealers, new only | B | 1.7 |
| Timber Logistics, Inc. | Warren | Logging | A | 1.7 |
| Wm 33 | Nashville | - | B | 1.7 |
| VinTech Nano Materials | Springdale | Greases, synthetic lubricati | B | 1.7 |
| 128 | Jonesboro | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | B | 1.7 |
| Store #622 | Pine Bluff | Supermarkets | B | 1.7 |
| PotlatchDeltic: WARREN | Warren | Sawmills | B | 1.7 |
| Bentonville 134 | Bentonville | Handling or repair of wooden | B | 1.7 |
| USA Bentonville 8200 SW Regional Airport Blvd | Bentonville | - | D | 1.7 |
| QSI Dardanelle | Dardanelle | Building exterior cleaning s | A | 1.7 |
| 67220017--Dassault Falcon Jet | Little Rock | - | B | 1.7 |
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.