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 67 of 88| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 736 | Pine Bluff | Automotive Parts and Accesso | A | 1.1 |
| 2847 Lowe S of Paragould Ar | Paragould | Homecenter | A | 1.1 |
| Levy Environmental Services Company dba Levy NYS Mill Service | Blytheville | Mini-mills, steel | A | 1.1 |
| 1 Prestolite Dr. | Paragould | Copper products made by roll | A | 1.1 |
| Steelworx Industrial Group, LLC | Fayetteville | Addition, alteration and ren | A | 1.1 |
| 2335 Harrison Folding | Harrison | Folding Paperboard Box Manuf | A | 1.1 |
| TETRA Technologies, Inc. - El Dorado, AR | El Dorado | Calcium carbide, chloride, a | A | 1.1 |
| Raytheon_East Camden_AR | East Camden | - | A | 1.1 |
| T195/695 | Magnolia | Automobile carrier trucking, | A | 1.1 |
| Progressive Solutions LLC | Marshall | Arborist services | A | 1.1 |
| Wm 6082 | Clarksville | Refrigerated Warehousing and | A | 1.1 |
| Hft #1 | Wynne | Grocery stores | A | 1.1 |
| Clean Harbors El Dorado | El Dorado | Hazardous waste disposal fac | A | 1.1 |
| Water Tech, Inc. | Fort Smith | Chemicals (except agricultur | A | 1.1 |
| KSC1 | Hot Springs | Eggs, chicken (table, hatchi | A | 1.1 |
| Courtyard North Little Rock | North Little Rock | Traveler Accomdations | A | 1.1 |
| Evergreen Packaging - Pine Bluff | Pine Bluff | Pulp and paper (except groun | A | 1.1 |
| EMERSON | Emerson | - | A | 1.1 |
| Trinity Lighting, Inc. | Jonesboro | Decorative area lighting fix | A | 1.1 |
| HH Cloyes | Paris | Sprockets, power transmissio | A | 1.1 |
| FedEx 1400 EW MARTIN | Conway | Courier and Express Delivery | A | 1.1 |
| Greenway Equipment Russellville | Russellville | Tractor, farm or constructio | B | 1.1 |
| Husqvarna Outdoor Products Lawn & Garden | Nashville | Trimmers, string, lawn and g | A | 1.1 |
| Ole Mexican Foods, INC | Springdale | Tortillas manufacturing | A | 1.1 |
| CECO Concrete : Knoxville Equipment Ctr. | Knoxville | Construction | A | 1.1 |
| MC Express LLC | Jonesboro | General freight trucking, lo | A | 1.1 |
| JMC of Jonesboro, Inc. | Jonesboro | Stampings (except automotive | A | 1.1 |
| 004m - Jonesboro Ar Rntl | Jonesboro | Industrial Launderers | B | 1.1 |
| Powers of Arkansas- NWA Office | Springdale | Heating, ventilation and air | A | 1.1 |
| Wayne Holden Company Inc | Texarkana | Natural gas pipeline constru | A | 1.1 |
| The Blossoms at Mountain View | Mountain View | Skilled nursing facilities | A | 1.1 |
| Nucor Yamato Steel | Blytheville | Bars, steel, made in iron an | A | 1.1 |
| PSSI - 0089 Tyson Foods Inc. - Russellville | Russellville | Janitorial Services | A | 1.1 |
| Remington Ammunition | Lonoke | Small arms ammunition (i.e., | A | 1.1 |
| 8600 | Bentonville | Commercial Printing (except | A | 1.1 |
| Crow Group Inc | Morrilton | Commercial building construc | A | 1.1 |
| Como - Memphis Precast | West Memphis | Concrete product manufacturi | A | 1.1 |
| Kohler Co. | Sheridan | Supply line assemblies, plum | A | 1.1 |
| Clean Harbors Environmental Services El Dorado | El Dorado | Hazardous waste disposal fac | A | 1.1 |
| Systems Plant Services, Inc.-ARK25 | Osceola | Mechanical contractors | A | 1.1 |
| Xanitos EVS at Baptist NEA | Jonesboro | Janitorial | A | 1.1 |
| 7908 | Paragould | Home centers, building mater | A | 1.1 |
| Wm 4128 | Russellville | - | A | 1.1 |
| Lonoke Health and Rehab | Lonoke | Skilled nursing facilities | A | 1.1 |
| Fort Smith II-III | Fort Smith | Warehousing and storage, gen | A | 1.1 |
| Core Industrial | Little Rock | Insulation, boiler, duct and | A | 1.1 |
| Store #048 | El Dorado | Supermarkets | A | 1.1 |
| DGS Aviation Services : XNA - Bentonville | Bentonville | Support Activities for Air T | A | 1.1 |
| Millard Henry Clinic | Russellville | MDs' (medical doctors, excep | A | 1.1 |
| Little Rock - 059 | N. Little Rock | Tire Distributor | A | 1.1 |
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.