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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
Lanxess Corporation-RheinChemie Additives Little Rock Rubber goods, mechanical (i. B 1.7
International Paper Fort Smith North Fort Smith Boxes, corrugated and solid B 1.7
Three Rivers Health and Rehabilitation Marked Tree Skilled nursing facilities A 1.7
Greenway Equipment Weiner Weiner Tractor, farm or constructio C 1.7
El Dorado (formerly El Dorado Packaging) El Dorado Bags, plastics film, single B 1.7
MUSSOP El Dorado, AR El Dorado Building exterior cleaning s A 1.7
Hot Springs Continuous Rolling Mill Malvern Aluminum castings (except di B 1.7
Americold Logistics, LLC: Russellville El Mira Russellville Refrigerated warehousing A 1.7
Wm 6718 Searcy - C 1.7
Motion Systems : Benton Benton Fluid Power Cylinder and Act B 1.7
455 - Fayetteville-AR Fayetteville - B 1.7
Electrical Contractor Fort Smith Electrical contractors B 1.7
1520 South Caraway Road Jonesboro Electrical contractors and o B 1.7
Hanesbrands Clarksville Underwear made in apparel kn B 1.7
Bray Fast Freight, LLC Batesville Trucking, general freight, l A 1.7
Sloan Valve-Augusta Augusta Foundries (except die-castin B 1.7
BEI Arkansas Lowell Electric contracting B 1.7
KeyTronic Fayetteville Printed circuit assemblies m B 1.7
5738 Springdale Supermarkets and Other Groce A 1.7
Trinity Rail Maintenance Services #4034 Jonesboro Railroad rolling stock manuf B 1.7
Star Transportation - Jonesboro Ar Jonesboro Specialized Freight (except A 1.7
RMR Driver Services Bryant General freight trucking, lo A 1.7
Lockheed Martin Corporation Camden, AR (1527) Camden - B 1.7
Harry L. Oswald Power Station Little Rock Electric power generation, f D 1.7
OurPharma-Fayetteville Fayetteville Pharmaceutical preparations B 1.7
Wm 6882 Clarksville - A 1.7
Silgan Plastic Food Containers Fort Smith Awnings, rigid plastics or f B 1.7
LSI - Little Rock Little Rock Freight transportation, inla A 1.7
National Park Medical Center - EVS Hot Springs - A 1.7
Ammunition Operations Lonoke Ammunition, small arms (i.e. B 1.7
PotlatchDeltic - Warren Warren Sawmills B 1.7
Cargill Poultry Gentry Turkey production A 1.7
Sig Sauer Inc (Arkansas) Jacksonville Ammunition, small arms (i.e. B 1.7
Anchor Packaging Distribution Center Paragould Film, plastics, packaging, m B 1.7
Americold Logistics, LLC: Texarkana Texarkana Warehousing, refrigerated A 1.7
ARLIT Little Rock Warm Air Heating and Air-Con B 1.7
CertainTeed Gypsum Nashville Gypsum building products man B 1.7
Cards Nwa, LLC Springdale Waste collection services, n B 1.7
Ryerson - Little Rock Little Rock Pipe, metal, merchant wholes B 1.7
AS Arkansas Service Center Proctor Water Tank Rehab and Mainten B 1.7
40150 - Capstone Family Dollar Memphis Ar West Memphis General warehousing and stor A 1.7
Exide Technologies-Fort Smith Fort Smith Lead acid storage batteries B 1.7
DSAR Little Little Rock Residential Mental Health an A 1.7
2nd Street, P-19719 Fort Smith Chickens, processing, fresh, A 1.6
Sevier County Medical Center De Queen Hospitals, general medical a A 1.6
4021-500599200 Monticello Food Services B 1.6
Store #082 Crossett Supermarkets A 1.6
KBM Industrial Services, Inc. Russellville Millwrights B 1.6
Outdoor Cap Company Inc Bentonville Clothing, men's and boys', m B 1.6
Leather Brothers, Inc. Conway Dog furnishings (e.g., colla A 1.6
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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.