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 74 of 88| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Murphy Oil USA, Inc | El Dorado | Corporate offices | B | 0.5 |
| ArcBest Technologies | Fort Smith | Facilities (i.e., clients' f | C | 0.5 |
| Plum Point Energy Station | Osceola | Power generation, fossil fue | A | 0.5 |
| Ritter Communications - Jonesboro | Jonesboro | Telecommunications carriers, | B | 0.5 |
| Ashdown | Ashdown | 0 | A | 0.5 |
| Elliott Electrical, Inc. | Bryant | Electrical wiring contractor | A | 0.5 |
| OKF Corporate Offices | Fort Smith | Chickens, processing, fresh, | A | 0.5 |
| Harrison Waiver | Harrison | Activity centers for disable | A | 0.5 |
| SSI Inc. Fort Smith | Fort Smith | Structural steel erecting or | A | 0.5 |
| Gregg Farm Services | Midway | Lawn and garden equipment an | A | 0.5 |
| Husqvarna Forestry Products N.A. Inc. | Nashville | Lawn and garden equipment ma | A | 0.5 |
| KeyTronic AR | Fayetteville | Printed circuit assemblies m | A | 0.5 |
| 4002 | North Little Rock | Customer service call center | A | 0.5 |
| Carrier Commercial Services (Little Rock) | Little Rock | Plumbing, Heating, and Air-C | A | 0.5 |
| 8234 | Searcy | General Warehousing and Stor | A | 0.5 |
| 1296-Live Haul | Dequeen | Trucking, specialized freigh | A | 0.5 |
| Frick | Fort Smith | Activity centers for disable | A | 0.5 |
| Carter Express - Paragould, AR | Paragould | General freight trucking, lo | A | 0.5 |
| LIT | Little Rock | Couriers & Messengers | A | 0.5 |
| Sealed Air | Rogers | Film, plastics, packaging, m | A | 0.5 |
| Otis Elevator Company-Little Rock | Little Rock | ElevatorEscalator-Installati | A | 0.5 |
| Fort Smith Courtyard | Ft. Smith | Hotels and Motels | A | 0.5 |
| Wm 8234 | Searcy | - | A | 0.5 |
| Freyaldenhoven H&C | Conway | Heating, ventilation and air | A | 0.5 |
| Entergy Independence Steam Electric Station | Newark | Power generation, fossil fue | A | 0.5 |
| L'Oreal - North Little Rock Manufacturing | North Little Rock | Toilet preparations (e.g., c | A | 0.5 |
| Nursing & Rehab @ good shepherd | Little Rock | Skilled nursing facilities | A | 0.5 |
| Rogers - Br 5 | Rogers | Low voltage electrical work | A | 0.5 |
| Wm 4686 | Bentonville | - | A | 0.5 |
| Albemarle Corporation Magnolia Plants | Magnolia | Bromine manufacturing | A | 0.5 |
| Rogers | Rogers | Cutting tool and machine too | A | 0.5 |
| Emerson Professional Tools MFG LLC | Ash Flat | Power transmission equipment | A | 0.5 |
| Fayetteville AR | Fayetteville | ABA Therapy | A | 0.5 |
| Kohler Co. - Distribution Center | Sheridan | General warehousing and stor | A | 0.5 |
| Wm 6001 | Rogers | - | A | 0.5 |
| Northwest Controls Systems, Inc | North Little Rock | Heating, ventilation and air | A | 0.5 |
| 572 - Harrison | Harrison | Industrial Launderers | A | 0.5 |
| Novus Arkansas, LLC | Little Rock | Cattle feeds, supplements, c | A | 0.5 |
| D & B Janitorial Services, Inc. | Little Rock | Building cleaning services, | A | 0.5 |
| 2576-647 | Little Rock | Psychiatric and Substance Ab | A | 0.5 |
| Ess Transportation Inc | Damascus | Bulk liquids trucking, local | A | 0.5 |
| Ft Smith Service Center | Fort Smith | Distribution of electric pow | A | 0.5 |
| 8020722 Mars Fort Smith AR | Fort Smith | Staffing | A | 0.5 |
| Baxter Healthcare Corporation | Mountain Home | IV apparatus manufacturing | A | 0.5 |
| 0462 Lowe S of Ft. Smith Ar | Fort Smith | Homecenter | A | 0.5 |
| Southwestern Energy Company-D&C Operations | Conway | Gas, natural, extraction | A | 0.5 |
| Searcy,AR | Searcy | 713940 Fitness and Recreatio | A | 0.4 |
| Glory Transportation, Inc | Fayetteville | Motor freight carrier, gener | A | 0.4 |
| Sig Sauer Corporation | Jacksonville | Ammunition, small arms (i.e. | A | 0.4 |
| 5780 | Paragould | Supermarkets and Other Groce | A | 0.4 |
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.