Food Services · Louisiana

500594800 - La Tech

Ruston, LA · ~196 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.2
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

500594800 - La Tech runs at 107% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Food Services workplace, earning a grade C.

500594800 - La Tech: 3.2 TCR = 107% of Food Services BLS 3.0 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

500594800 - La Tech safety composite

500594800 - La Tech scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 39%), 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).

D

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% 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

−4.3

2016→2017

500594800 - La Tech injury rate improved

500594800 - La Tech's TCR fell 4.3 from 5.4 in 2016 to 1.0 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 5.4 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0.32× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.4 · 2017=1.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 3.2 · 107% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #63/87
  • PHOTO Merill Area Public S…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~196 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Merill Area Public Schools (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 3.2 TCR (107% 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: 2016=5.4 · 2017=1 · BLS 3.0

Where 500594800 - La Tech falls in its industry

6,952 Food Services establishments

Safer than 54% 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 #63 safest of 87 Food Services employers in Louisiana.

500594800 - La Tech (196 employees, TCR 3.2) 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 (196 employees, TCR 3.2) 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 lower 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
2017 1.0 1.0 1 0 0
2016 5.4 1.1 5 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 Merill Area Public Schools 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR SODEXO AT BURLINGTON CO INST OF TECH WES 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Seattle Catering 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chariho Regional SD 3.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE SLEMCO LAFAYETTE 196 FTE
STATE-SIZE Martco, L.L.C. (Oakdale) 196 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southern Packaging Inc. 196 FTE
STATE-SIZE 034-00394 196 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 Rai Crew Phl 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR LeMay Electric, Inc. 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Glc on the Go Inc. 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Grand Forks T & M 3.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Northside Lexus 196 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trumbull (Ohtru) 196 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lincoln (Nelin) 196 FTE
NAT-SIZE Durham Center (Ncdur) 196 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: 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.