Custom compounding (i.e., blending and mixing) of purchased plastics resins · Louisiana

Ampacet Deridder

Deridder, LA · ~77 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ampacet Deridder runs at 75% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Custom compounding (i.e., blending and mixing) of purchased plastics resins workplace, earning a grade B.

Ampacet Deridder: 2.5 TCR = 75% of Custom compounding (i.e., blending and mixing) of purchased plastics resins BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ampacet Deridder safety composite

Ampacet Deridder scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 49%), 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

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% 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

Ampacet Deridder: 2.2 → 3.1 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 4.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2022

Ampacet Deridder's TCR rose 0.9 from 2.2 in 2016 to 3.1 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2019 at 4.6 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325991 · Deridder, LA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.5 · 75% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P49
  • PHOTO Washington Penn Plas…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~77 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Washington Penn Plastic Co., Inc. - PPD Division (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ampacet Deridder in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ampacet Deridder averages 2.5 TCR (75% of the Custom compounding (i.e., blending and mixing) of purchased plastics resins BLS benchmark).

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

Ampacet Deridder TCR series: 2016=2.2 · 2017=1.2 · 2018=1.4 · 2019=4.6 · 2020=3.2 · 2021=1.5 · 2022=3.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Ampacet Deridder falls in its industry

342 Custom compounding (i.e., blen establishments

Safer than 49% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Ampacet Deridder (77 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Ampacet Deridder
Ampacet Deridder (77 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Ampacet Deridder has more employees than the Custom compounding (i.e., blending and m median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2022 3.1 0.0 1 1 0
2021 1.5 0.0 1 0 0
2020 3.2 3.2 2 0 0
2019 4.6 3.1 3 0 0
2018 1.4 1.4 1 0 0
2017 1.2 0.0 1 0 0
2016 2.2 1.1 1 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325991 · LA · Deridder

342 Custom compounding (i.e., blending and mixing) of purchased plastics resins employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 6,723 rated employers in Louisiana with headcount on file · 27 employers in Deridder, 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 Washington Penn Plastic Co., Inc. - PPD Division 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Avient Corporation - Lehigh Valley 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Washington Penn - Wapakoneta 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Strongwell_Chatfield 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Oilfield Instrumentation 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE Coastal Drilling Company LLC 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE 102854 - TEI Zen-Noh Convent Export Terminal Dock Expansion 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE Formosa Plastics Corporation Baton Rouge LA 77 FTE
CITY-NEAR DERIDDER, LA 548 FTE
CITY-NEAR 505 334 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 505 328 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ingevity - DeRidder 173 FTE
NAT-TCR SYR-ODFL 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 1501 - Sherwood-OR 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 709 - Fresno West 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 624 - Chillicothe 2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE AccuRounds 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE Arbor Hills Rehab and Healthcare Center 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cherry Moving Company, Inc. Dba Cherry Demolition 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE Robert Diemer Filtration Plant 77 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.