Severe Workplace Injuries in Hope, Arkansas
Employers in Hope reported 19 severe work injuries to OSHA from 2015 through November 2025: 10 workers hospitalized and 10 amputations (53% of reports). Manufacturing accounts for the most reports. OSHA opened an inspection after 8 of them.
Reports by year
Industries
How workers were hurt
Parts of the body injured
OSHA inspections in Hope since 2016
Workplace safety inspectors opened 22 inspections at Hope workplaces, and 13 of them (59%) ended with at least one violation. Inspectors cited 21 serious, 0 willful and 1 repeat violations, with current penalties totaling $197,980.
Rules cited most often:
Recent inspections with penalties
| Employer | Violations | Penalty |
|---|---|---|
| Dansons Hope LLC (referral, details) | 2 (1 serious+) | $16,550 |
| East Baking Company Inc. (referral, details) | 5 (4 serious+) | $28,484 |
| East Baking Company Inc. (referral, details) | 1 (1 serious+) | $8,872 |
| Oldcastle Lawn & Garden, Inc. (referral, details) | 1 | $9,209 |
| Amerities South LLC (referral, details) | 2 (2 serious+) | $8,438 |
| Anacleto Banegas Mayorga (planned, details) | 2 (2 serious+) | $5,626 |
| Sls Trucking, Inc. (fatality/catastrophe, details) | 9 (6 serious+) | $15,661 |
| Tyson Foods, Inc. (complaint, details) | 1 | $9,116 |
| Southern Bakeries, LLC (complaint, details) | 2 (1 serious+) | $14,000 |
| Southern Bakeries LLC (referral, details) | 3 (2 serious+) | $4,200 |
| Tyson Foods Inc. (programmed, details) | 5 (1 serious+) | $55,000 |
| Southern Bakery (complaint, details) | 2 | $1,000 |
Penalties as currently recorded by OSHA; they can drop after settlement or contest. Inspection data covers federal OSHA inspections and state-run safety program inspections reported to OSHA.
Most recent reports
The 19 newest severe injury reports from Hope employers, as OSHA published them.
Nov 3, 2025 · Tyson Chicken Inc. Amputation
An employee was sliding a mold drum into a forming machine when his left middle finger was caught in a pinch point, resulting in an amputation at the first joint.
Caught or wedged between objects nonrunning · Other finger(s) (other) · Agriculture, forestry and fishing
Dec 22, 2024 · TYSON FOODS INC. Hospitalized
An employee was cleaning a product laydown machine and putting a belt back up when her personal protective equipment was caught by a sprocket and her arm was pulled into the spinning shaft. The employee sustained an open fracture to her right forearm.
Struck by running powered equipment during maintenance, cleaning, testing · Forearm(s) · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1795135
Oct 31, 2024 · TYSON FOODS INC. Amputation
An employee was replacing a floor drain grate when the grate caught his middle fingertip, resulting in an amputation of the finger pad.
Injured by object handled by person (other) · Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s) · Manufacturing
Jul 15, 2024 · East Baking Company Inc. Amputation
An employee was cleaning dough from a corn meal sifter. The tip of their left middle finger was pinched off, resulting in amputation of the fingertip.
Struck by running powered equipment during maintenance, cleaning, testing · Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s) · Manufacturing
Jul 12, 2024 · Anthony Wood Treating, Inc. Hospitalized
An employee was working from a step ladder and putting grease in a fitting on a cylinder door. His leg was caught between two of the ladder's rungs and the ladder folded up. He fell and broke his leg.
Fall to lower level from collapsing structure or equipment · Leg(s) · Manufacturing
Oct 26, 2023 · Hope Baking Company, Inc. Hospitalized
An employee was pushing trays out of the back of the tray former machine when his right hand and middle finger were caught in the machine and fractured.
Caught in running equipment or machinery · Hand(s) · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1706597
Oct 24, 2023 · Hope Baking Company, Inc. Hospitalized
On October 24, 2023, an employee was working in the bread department on the production line. As they went to remove dough that became stuck on the roller, the fingers on their right hand were crushed.
Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation · Hand(s) · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1706570
Feb 13, 2023 · Oldcastle Lawn And Garden Amputation
An employee was jogging bags on a form fill and seal machine when a bag became stuck. The employee opened the jaws of the unit to remove the bags. When placing the bags back on the jaws, the jog button was pressed, causing the machine to clamp onto the employee's finger. They sustained a left index fingertip amputation.
Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning · Fingertip(s) · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1650689
Dec 6, 2022 · Amerities South LLC Hospitalized
An employee was using a snorkel system to suction hot oil out of a railcar tanker. Pressure had built up in the hose and pushed extra air pressure into the oil. This caused the hot oil and gases up to 180 degrees to be blown in the employee's face, arms, and chest. He sustained second and third-degree burns to the face and arms.
Contact with hot objects or substances · Multiple body parts (other) · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1637842
May 24, 2022 · Brentwood Industries, Inc. Amputation
An employee was helping another employee with a plastic roll on a line. A roll bar and its metal plate crushed the employee's left index finger, resulting in amputation of the finger.
Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects · Finger(s), fingernail(s) (other) · Manufacturing
Mar 12, 2020 · Anthony Wood Treating, Inc Hospitalized
An employee got out of his forklift and it moved forward, running over his foot and causing a compound fracture. He was hospitalized.
Struck or run over by rolling powered vehicle · Foot (feet) · Manufacturing
Aug 16, 2019 · TYSON FOODS INC. Amputation
An employee raised the door to a breading machine and the machine caused an amputation to the employee's right index finger.
Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects · Finger(s), fingernail(s) · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1425890
Aug 19, 2018 · BAKERY FEEDS Hospitalized
An employee was repairing a tower master where cables come out of a bucket to load modules of dough into a trailer. He climbed into one of the buckets and a kink formed in the cable, which slid off a U-bolt and jerked, dropping about 4 feet. Later, the cable came loose and the bucket fell about 25 feet to the ground with the employee still inside. He fractured his right foot and pinky toe and injured his vertebrae, requiring hospitalization.
Fall from collapsing structure or equipment 21 to 25 feet · Multiple foot (feet) locations · Manufacturing
May 16, 2018 · SOUTHERN BAKERIES Amputation
An employee was sweeping flour dust off of equipment when the machine guard unlatched and opened the machine guard door. The employee was attempting to close the door when another piece of the machine guarding became unsecured. While attempting to reinstall the guard that became unsecured, the employee's hand contacted the exposed motor chain, which was running. This caused the employee's hand to be pulled into the in-running chain and sprocket, partially amputating the employee's left pinky finger and lacerating three fingers.
Caught in running equipment or machinery (other) · Finger(s), fingernail(s) (other) · Wholesale trade
Feb 7, 2018 · SOUTHERN BAKERIES, LLC Amputation
An employee was replacing the belt on the blower motor of a flour silo when the motor energized and amputated the left middle fingertip.
Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning · Fingertip(s) · Manufacturing
Jun 13, 2016 · Southern Bakeries LLC Amputation
An employee was checking the drive bracket on a conveyor when the conveyor activated. His left thumb tip was caught and amputated in the conveyor chain. The conveyor was unguarded and not locked out at the time of the incident.
Caught in running equipment or machinery (other) · Fingertip(s) · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1156706
Apr 23, 2016 · TYSON FOODS INC. Hospitalized
An employee was cleaning the equipment and floors in an area when an ammonia release occurred. The employee was exposed to the ammonia and suffered second degree burns to her right leg, requiring hospitalization.
Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue · Leg(s) · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1142960
Nov 25, 2015 · TYSON FOODS INC. Amputation
An employee was moving a strapper machine after making boxes. The machine amputated his left pinky fingertip when he moved it back into position.
Contact with objects and equipment · Fingertip(s) · Manufacturing
Aug 1, 2015 · TYSON FOODS INC. Hospitalized
A maintenance employee was getting a glass to rinse out his mouth after having some coffee. He immediately noticed the water tasted funny and spit out the water. A chemical sanitizer, pH+, used in the facility had back-flowed into the potable water lines and contaminated the drinking water. The employee's lips, inside of the mouth, and tongue were burned.
Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue · Multiple mouth locations · Manufacturing
After a workplace injury in Arkansas
Most work injuries are handled through workers' compensation, which pays medical bills and part of lost wages whether or not anyone was at fault, and usually rules out suing the employer. A separate claim may be possible against someone else, such as an equipment maker or another company on the site. Reporting deadlines are short, so tell your employer about an injury right away.
Workers compensation lawyers in Arkansas
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Source: OSHA's Severe Injury Reports, 2015 through November 2025 (loaded November 9, 2026). Employers must report any work-related amputation, loss of an eye or in-patient hospitalization to OSHA within 24 hours. Employer names, addresses and incident descriptions are as OSHA publishes them. A report records an injury, not a finding that the employer broke a rule; OSHA opens an inspection for some reports. The data covers workplaces under federal OSHA. States that run their own OSHA program (such as California, Washington, Michigan, North Carolina and Virginia) are mostly missing, and work-related deaths are reported separately.
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