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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
Russellville AR FXFE-RVR Russellville Less Than Truckload General A 0.7
ABB Motors and Mechanical, Inc. - Fort Smith Fort Smith Motors, electric (except eng A 0.7
Springdale Hampton Springdale Hotels and Motels A 0.7
Signode- Fordyce, Arkansas Fordyce Air bag assemblies manufactu A 0.7
Arkansas Distributing,CO West Memphis Beverages, alcoholic (except A 0.7
Lumber One Home Center of Stuttgart, Inc. Stuttgart Home centers, building mater A 0.7
Ft Smith AR Fort Smith Paper and Paperboard A 0.7
Tms - Brs Osceola Blast furnace slag processin A 0.7
CertainTeed RPG Little Rock Little Rock Cements, asphalt roofing, ma A 0.7
Transport Service 60023 TSC Magnolia Magnolia Tanker trucking (e.g., chemi A 0.7
Brookdale Conway Conway Assisted-living facilities w A 0.7
Gates Corporation Siloam Springs Belting, rubber (e.g., conve A 0.7
6051 Bentonville Warehouse Storage A 0.7
RiceTec Arkansas Station Harrisburg Rice (except wild rice) farm A 0.7
Ryder Location 07611 Jonesboro Warehousing, refrigerated A 0.7
Steve's Electric, LLC Paragould Electrical contractors A 0.7
Hackney Ladish INC Russellville Pipe Fittings A 0.7
Crossett Health Foundation dba Ashley County Medical Center Crossett Hospitals, general medical a A 0.7
Courtyard Rehab and Health El Dorado Skilled nursing facilities A 0.7
Entergy Russellville Russellville Distribution of electric pow B 0.7
BHGAR - Ozark - Cataberry Run (AR012) Ozark Distribution of natural gas B 0.7
Cash Saver #3821 Jonesboro Supermarkets A 0.7
Main Wk Sh Hot Springs Lawnmowers, nonpowered, manu A 0.7
Wheeling Machine Products - Pine Bluff Pine Bluff Steel manufacturing A 0.7
National Park Medical Center - FNS Hot Springs - A 0.7
Wilson's Gun Shop Inc Berryville Aircraft artillery manufactu A 0.7
USA AR North Little Rock North Little Rock Plumbing and heating contrac A 0.7
Bluestem Arkansas LLC Little Rock Offset printing (except book A 0.7
Glatfelter Fort Smith Air laid nonwoven fabrics ma A 0.7
Conway Folding Conway - A 0.7
25 North Heber Springs Corporate offices C 0.7
Beebe Public Sch Main Campus Beebe - A 0.7
Chibuzo, Inc dba General Pallets & Crates Fort Smith Pallets, wood or wood and me A 0.7
Hydro Extrusion Phoenix Fabrication Phoenix Harness parts, metal, manufa A 0.7
Parks Brothers Farms, Inc. Van Buren Bedding plant growing (excep A 0.7
Proinsco, LLC Fort Smith Insulation contractors A 0.7
Riverside Motors Inc DBA Mercedes Benz of Little Rock Little Rock Automobile dealers, new only A 0.7
M7172 Northwest Med Springdale - A 0.7
20923 Little Rock Little Rock Bus operation, school and em A 0.7
Little Rock Campus (Headquarters) Little Rock Electric power generation, f B 0.6
Starko Inc. Wilmar Structural steel erecting or A 0.6
Code 3 Services, LLC El Dorado Environmental remediation se A 0.6
Canfor Southern Pine Urbana Sawmill El Dorado Dimension lumber, softwood, A 0.6
Holman Logistics - MSDC Conway General warehousing and stor A 0.6
GNB Fort Smith LLC - Stryten Energy Fort Smith Batteries, storage, manufact A 0.6
VRS Little Rock, AR Little Rock Translation and Interpretati D 0.6
Systems Plant Services, Inc. El Dorado Corporate offices C 0.6
Weldon, Williams & Lick, Inc. Fort Smith Print shops, flexographic (e A 0.6
Fayette Janitorial LLC- George's Springdale Springdale Janitorial services A 0.6
Kohler Co. - Arkansas Faucets Sheridan Plumbing fixture fittings an A 0.6
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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.