Retail Stores · Louisiana

0247 - Lake Charles, La

Lake Charles, LA · ~19 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.1
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

0247 - Lake Charles, La runs at 150% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Retail Stores workplace, earning a grade D.

0247 - Lake Charles, La: 5.1 TCR = 150% of Retail Stores BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

0247 - Lake Charles, La safety composite

0247 - Lake Charles, La scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 76% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

C

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 5.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

TCR Δ

−7.3

2016→2018

0247 - Lake Charles, La injury rate improved

0247 - Lake Charles, La's TCR fell 7.3 from 7.3 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 8.1 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.3 · 2017=8.1 · 2018=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444130 · Lake Charles, LA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.1 · 150% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #13/27
  • PHOTO 0581 - ALBANY, OR
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 0581 - ALBANY, OR (0.0 TCR gap)

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0247 - Lake Charles, La in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows 0247 - Lake Charles, La averages 5.1 TCR (150% of the Retail Stores BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

0247 - Lake Charles, La TCR series: 2016=7.3 · 2017=8.1 · 2018=0 · BLS 3.4

Where 0247 - Lake Charles, La falls in its industry

1,493 Retail Stores establishments

Safer than 60% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Louisiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 27 Retail Stores employers in Louisiana.

0247 - Lake Charles, La (19 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 6.2 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 02004006008001,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate 0247 - Lake Charles, La
0247 - Lake Charles, La (19 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 6.2

0247 - Lake Charles, La has fewer employees than the Retail Stores median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.2. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 8.1 8.1 1 0 0
2016 7.3 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444130 · LA · Lake Charles

1,493 Retail Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 6,723 rated employers in Louisiana with headcount on file · 197 employers in Lake Charles, LA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR 0581 - ALBANY, OR 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kapaa Ace Hardware 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR EL PASO NORTH, TX #00691 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ziegler's Ace Elgin East 5.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE HMT LLC - Shell Norco 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE BYB Trucking LLC 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tarver Land Development, LLC. 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE R. Cloud Construction Co., Inc. 19 FTE
CITY-NEAR Golden Nugget Lake Charles 2,182 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lauberge Casino Resort 1,973 FTE
CITY-NEAR Westlake Chemical Sout 1,063 FTE
CITY-NEAR Westlake Chemical South 1,054 FTE
NAT-TCR 0581 - Albany, or 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Kentucky View (Kyfou) 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Galesburg (Ilgal) 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Federal Building-IRS 669 5.1 TCR

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.