Discount Department Stores · Louisiana

1473 - Lafayette

Lafayette, LA · ~353 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.1
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

1473 - Lafayette runs at 296% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Discount Department Stores workplace, earning a grade F.

1473 - Lafayette: 10.1 TCR = 296% of Discount Department Stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

1473 - Lafayette safety composite

1473 - Lafayette scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 8%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% 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

−1.3

2019→2024

1473 - Lafayette injury rate improved

1473 - Lafayette's TCR fell 1.3 from 3.5 in 2019 to 2.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 32.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.14× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=3.5 · 2021=10.1 · 2022=32.7 · 2023=1.7 · 2024=2.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452112 · Lafayette, LA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 10.1 · 296% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #46/48
  • PHOTO 1286 - Valparaiso
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 27 inj
  • SIZE ~353 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 1286 - Valparaiso (0.0 TCR gap)

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1473 - Lafayette in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 1473 - Lafayette averages 10.1 TCR (296% of the Discount Department Stores BLS benchmark).

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

1473 - Lafayette TCR series: 2019=3.5 · 2021=10.1 · 2022=32.7 · 2023=1.7 · 2024=2.3 · BLS 3.4

Where 1473 - Lafayette falls in its industry

4,991 Discount Department Stores establishments

Safer than 8% 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 #46 safest of 48 Discount Department Stores employers in Louisiana.

1473 - Lafayette (353 employees, TCR 10.1) 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 1473 - Lafayette
1473 - Lafayette (353 employees, TCR 10.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4

1473 - Lafayette 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 2.3 1.4 5 0 0
2023 1.7 1.3 4 0 0
2022 32.7 32.7 5 78 0
2021 10.1 6.3 6 18 0
2019 3.5 2.0 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452112 · LA · Lafayette

4,991 Discount Department Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 6,723 rated employers in Louisiana with headcount on file · 312 employers in Lafayette, 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 1286 - Valparaiso 10.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1933 - Ft Wayne NE 10.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0847 - Virginia 10.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1869 - Redlands 10.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cameron Berwick 353 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 1193 353 FTE
STATE-SIZE Smitty's Supply Inc 352 FTE
STATE-SIZE 200 RNDC-NEW ORLEANS 354 FTE
CITY-NEAR Acadian Ambulance 3,166 FTE
CITY-NEAR OLG Lafayette General Medical Center 2,489 FTE
CITY-NEAR Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center, Inc. 1,348 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stuller, Inc. Global Headquarters 1,330 FTE
NAT-TCR JH Larson Electrical - Sioux Falls 10.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Messier & Associates, Inc. 10.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Simcote, Inc. - OH 10.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Puente Hills Field Office 10.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE 1448 - Lino Lakes 353 FTE
NAT-SIZE John Deere Coffeyville Works 353 FTE
NAT-SIZE Central Park Conservancy 353 FTE
NAT-SIZE Miami Distribution 353 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.

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