Food Services · Louisiana

500594800 La Tech

Ruston, LA · ~234 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.9
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

500594800 La Tech runs at 431% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Food Services workplace, earning a grade F.

500594800 La Tech: 12.9 TCR = 431% of Food Services BLS 3.0 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

500594800 La Tech safety composite

500594800 La Tech scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 5%), 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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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

500594800 La Tech: 6.6 → 19.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 19.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.74× in 2024

500594800 La Tech's TCR rose 12.6 from 6.6 in 2023 to 19.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.74× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722310 · Ruston, LA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 12.9 · 431% of ind

  • DART 9.6 DART
  • RANK #85/87
  • PHOTO Fort Bragg Food Svs …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~234 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fort Bragg Food Svs Building B-1732 W Luzon Drive (0.0 TCR gap)

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500594800 La Tech in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 500594800 La Tech averages 12.9 TCR (431% of the Food Services BLS benchmark).

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

500594800 La Tech TCR series: 2023=6.6 · 2024=19.2 · BLS 3.0

Where 500594800 La Tech falls in its industry

6,952 Food Services establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Louisiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #85 safest of 87 Food Services employers in Louisiana.

500594800 La Tech (234 employees, TCR 12.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 500594800 La Tech
500594800 La Tech (234 employees, TCR 12.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5

500594800 La Tech has more employees than the Food Services median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 19.2 9.6 2 0 0
2023 6.6 3.3 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722310 · LA · Ruston

6,952 Food Services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 6,723 rated employers in Louisiana with headcount on file · 47 employers in Ruston, 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 Fort Bragg Food Svs Building B-1732 W Luzon Drive 12.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 000018173 PORT ST LUCIE 12.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR DO & CO Detroit 12.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fresh Seasons Cafe- FBI CJIS Building 12.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE 803 234 FTE
STATE-SIZE Shriners Hospitals For Children 234 FTE
STATE-SIZE Amelia Belle 234 FTE
STATE-SIZE Baywater Drilling, LLC 233 FTE
CITY-NEAR Louisiana United Methodist Children and Family Services 550 FTE
CITY-NEAR 23 403 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 23 374 FTE
CITY-NEAR Super 1 Food's #617 239 FTE
NAT-TCR Valley Pallet and Crating LLC 12.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Lake Arrowhead Community Services District 12.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Metro Electric, Inc. 12.9 TCR
NAT-TCR National Distributors, Inc. 12.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pittsburg, CA 234 FTE
NAT-SIZE Parkview Wabash Hospital 234 FTE
NAT-SIZE Greenwood Healthcare Center 234 FTE
NAT-SIZE Intranerve, LLC 234 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. 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.