Discount Department Stores · Louisiana

1399 - Lake Charles

Lake Charles, LA · ~149 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.1
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

1399 - Lake Charles runs at 238% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Discount Department Stores workplace, earning a grade F.

1399 - Lake Charles: 8.1 TCR = 238% of Discount Department Stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

1399 - Lake Charles safety composite

1399 - Lake Charles scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 13%), 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).

F

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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%).

Rising injury rate

1399 - Lake Charles: 3.7 → 8.4 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 15.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.74× in 2024

1399 - Lake Charles's TCR rose 4.7 from 3.7 in 2019 to 8.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 15.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.74× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452112 · Lake Charles, LA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.1 · 238% of ind

  • DART 6.0 DART
  • RANK #44/48
  • PHOTO 0795 - Knoxville NW
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~149 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 0795 - Knoxville NW (0.0 TCR gap)

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1399 - Lake Charles in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 1399 - Lake Charles averages 8.1 TCR (238% of the Discount Department Stores BLS benchmark).

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

1399 - Lake Charles TCR series: 2019=3.7 · 2021=9.8 · 2022=15 · 2023=3.6 · 2024=8.4 · BLS 3.4

Where 1399 - Lake Charles falls in its industry

4,991 Discount Department Stores establishments

Safer than 17% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Louisiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #44 safest of 48 Discount Department Stores employers in Louisiana.

1399 - Lake Charles (149 employees, TCR 8.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 1399 - Lake Charles
1399 - Lake Charles (149 employees, TCR 8.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4

1399 - Lake Charles has more employees than the Discount Department Stores median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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
2024 8.4 6.0 7 0 0
2023 3.6 2.4 2 1 0
2022 15.0 13.9 1 13 0
2021 9.8 7.8 2 8 0
2019 3.7 3.7 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452112 · LA · Lake Charles

4,991 Discount Department 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 · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR 0795 - Knoxville NW 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ross store 324 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0350 - Flint 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1150 - College Point 8.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE R&R Construction, INC. @ Westlake Chemical 149 FTE
STATE-SIZE GROUP Deep Foundations 149 FTE
STATE-SIZE 034-00747 149 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6590 149 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 0795 - Knoxville NW 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Garden Grove Vend 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Ft Pierce FL 36031 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Ankeny Police Department 8.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE 1962 - Waxahachie 149 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1981 - Weatherford 149 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0959 - Clarksville 149 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2095 - Owasso 149 FTE

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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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