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 65 of 88| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tenaris Hickman | Blytheville | Pipe (e.g., heavy riveted, l | A | 1.3 |
| Big Lots Store #5185 Mountain Home,AR | Mountain Home | Retail Other | A | 1.3 |
| 2318 Conway Folding | Conway | FOLDING PAPERBOARD BOX MANIF | A | 1.3 |
| WSCS | Springdale | Agents, shipping | A | 1.3 |
| Gateway Tire of Little Rock | Little Rock | Motor vehicle tire and tube | B | 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 |
| Sigma Supply - Corporate | Hot Springs | General merchandise, durable | B | 1.3 |
| Ducommun - Berryville | Berryville | Aircraft assemblies, subasse | 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 |
| Dayco Products - Springdale | Springdale | Automotive, truck and bus st | A | 1.3 |
| Country Mart #2232 | Harrison | Supermarkets | A | 1.3 |
| Hft #10 | Paragould | Grocery stores | A | 1.3 |
| Tenneco | Paragould | Automotive, truck and bus su | A | 1.3 |
| Kinco Constructors | Little Rock | Commercial building construc | A | 1.2 |
| Primetals Technologies - Blytheville | Blytheville | Rolling mill machinery and e | A | 1.2 |
| Transport Service 60023 Magnolia | Magnolia | Tanker trucking (e.g., chemi | A | 1.2 |
| U of Ark Athletics | Fayetteville | - | A | 1.2 |
| Nabholz Construction Corporation | Conway | Addition, alteration and ren | A | 1.2 |
| Foster | Fort Smith | Habilitation job counseling | A | 1.2 |
| ABB Motors and Mechanical Inc. | Ozark | Motors, electric (except eng | A | 1.2 |
| Roberts Industrial & Commercial Services, Inc. | Knoxville | Millwrights | A | 1.2 |
| Arkansas Refrigerated Services | Fort Smith | Public warehousing and stora | A | 1.2 |
| L'Oreal - North Little Rock Distribution | North Little Rock | General warehousing and stor | A | 1.2 |
| Magna IV Color Imaging, Inc | Little Rock | Offset printing (except book | A | 1.2 |
| Dassault Aircraft Services - Little Rock | Little Rock | Aircraft manufacturing | A | 1.2 |
| Greenville Tube Company | Clarksville | Tube (e.g., heavy riveted, l | 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 |
| RCX Solutions, Inc | Little Rock | General freight trucking, lo | A | 1.2 |
| 570 - Little Rock | Maumelle | Industrial Launderers | B | 1.2 |
| Sheridan SD 208 Empl | Sheridan | - | A | 1.2 |
| 2534 Lowe S of Blytheville Ar | Blytheville | Homecenter | A | 1.2 |
| Kirby Specialties Corporation | Russellville | Industrial building (except | A | 1.2 |
| Danfoss, LLC | Arkadelphia | Air-conditioning and warm ai | 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 |
| Community Supports Office (West Main Rsvl) | Russellville | 624110 Child and Youth Servi | 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 |
| Peco Foods Feed Mill | Newark | Animal feed mills (except do | A | 1.2 |
| Merchants Wholesale Grocer, Inc. | Mabelvale | Tobacco products merchant wh | B | 1.2 |
| Nidec-Paragould | Paragould | Fractional horsepower electr | A | 1.2 |
| 2741 | Bentonville | Supermarkets and Other Groce | 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 |
| Fred Young Center | Hot Springs | Footwear merchant wholesaler | B | 1.2 |
| NSA Arkansas | Fort Smith | Industrial garments, men's a | A | 1.2 |
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.