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 65 of 88| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tenaris Hickman | Blytheville | Pipe (e.g., heavy riveted, l | A | 1.3 |
| Gateway Tire of Little Rock | Little Rock | Motor vehicle tire and tube | B | 1.3 |
| Big Lots Store #5185 Mountain Home,AR | Mountain Home | Retail Other | A | 1.3 |
| PAM Transport - North Little Rock, AR | North Little Rock | General freight trucking, lo | A | 1.3 |
| WSCS | Springdale | Agents, shipping | A | 1.3 |
| ARK | Ft. Smith | Dog and cat food (e.g., cann | A | 1.3 |
| Morgan Manufacturing Inc | Hot Springs | Hydraulic cylinders, fluid p | A | 1.3 |
| Dayco Products - Springdale | Springdale | Automotive, truck and bus st | A | 1.3 |
| Tenneco | Paragould | Automotive, truck and bus su | A | 1.3 |
| Ducommun - Berryville | Berryville | Aircraft assemblies, subasse | A | 1.3 |
| Sigma Supply - Corporate | Hot Springs | General merchandise, durable | B | 1.3 |
| Country Mart #2232 | Harrison | Supermarkets | A | 1.3 |
| Hft #10 | Paragould | Grocery stores | A | 1.3 |
| Jacksonville Dirt Cheap | Jacksonville | Department stores, discount | A | 1.3 |
| Vitality Living Pleasant Hills | Little Rock | Assisted-living facilities w | A | 1.3 |
| Kinco Constructors | Little Rock | Commercial building construc | A | 1.2 |
| Nabholz Construction Corporation | Conway | Addition, alteration and ren | A | 1.2 |
| Roberts Industrial & Commercial Services, Inc. | Knoxville | Millwrights | A | 1.2 |
| Magna IV Color Imaging, Inc | Little Rock | Offset printing (except book | A | 1.2 |
| Primetals Technologies - Blytheville | Blytheville | Rolling mill machinery and e | A | 1.2 |
| ABB Motors and Mechanical Inc. | Ozark | Motors, electric (except eng | A | 1.2 |
| Dassault Aircraft Services - Little Rock | Little Rock | Aircraft manufacturing | A | 1.2 |
| Transport Service 60023 Magnolia | Magnolia | Tanker trucking (e.g., chemi | A | 1.2 |
| L'Oreal - North Little Rock Distribution | North Little Rock | General warehousing and stor | A | 1.2 |
| Arkansas Refrigerated Services | Fort Smith | Public warehousing and stora | A | 1.2 |
| Foster | Fort Smith | Habilitation job counseling | A | 1.2 |
| U of Ark Athletics | Fayetteville | - | A | 1.2 |
| 774 - Fort Smith | Fort Smith | All Other Cut and Sew Appare | A | 1.2 |
| Mountain Home Manufacturing Plant | Mountain Home | MOUNTAIN HOME MANUFACTURING | A | 1.2 |
| Greenville Tube Company | Clarksville | Tube (e.g., heavy riveted, l | A | 1.2 |
| RCX Solutions, Inc | Little Rock | General freight trucking, lo | A | 1.2 |
| Kirby Specialties Corporation | Russellville | Industrial building (except | A | 1.2 |
| Danfoss, LLC | Arkadelphia | Air-conditioning and warm ai | A | 1.2 |
| 2534 Lowe S of Blytheville Ar | Blytheville | Homecenter | A | 1.2 |
| Sheridan SD 208 Empl | Sheridan | - | A | 1.2 |
| 570 - Little Rock | Maumelle | Industrial Launderers | B | 1.2 |
| Peco Foods Feed Mill | Newark | Animal feed mills (except do | A | 1.2 |
| Central Wire Inc. Dumas, AR | Dumas | Barbed and twisted wire made | A | 1.2 |
| AZZ Galvanizing - Arizona | Goodyear | Hot dip galvanizing metals a | A | 1.2 |
| Mad Butcher #574 | Fordyce | Food (i.e., groceries) store | A | 1.2 |
| Cash Saver #557 | Monticello | Food (i.e., groceries) store | A | 1.2 |
| 6882 | Clarksville | General Freight Trucking, Lo | A | 1.2 |
| Community Supports Office (West Main Rsvl) | Russellville | 624110 Child and Youth Servi | A | 1.2 |
| Entergy Searcy | Searcy | Distribution of electric pow | C | 1.2 |
| Pruitt Tool & Supply Co - Fort Smith, AR | Fort Smith | Drilling equipment, oil and | A | 1.2 |
| Nidec-Paragould | Paragould | Fractional horsepower electr | A | 1.2 |
| Fred Young Center | Hot Springs | Footwear merchant wholesaler | B | 1.2 |
| Merchants Wholesale Grocer, Inc. | Mabelvale | Tobacco products merchant wh | B | 1.2 |
| 2741 | Bentonville | Supermarkets and Other Groce | A | 1.2 |
| Reliable Fire Protection, LLC | North Little Rock | Fire sprinkler system instal | A | 1.2 |
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).
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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.