Latex paint (i.e., water based) manufacturing · Louisiana

Arkema St. Charles

Hahnville, LA · ~47 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Arkema St. Charles runs at 17% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Latex paint (i.e., water based) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Arkema St. Charles: 0.6 TCR = 17% of Latex paint (i.e., water based) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Arkema St. Charles safety composite

Arkema St. Charles scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 96% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

B

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 96% 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%).

Arkema St. Charles held a steady TCR band

Arkema St. Charles's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2022 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 1.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=0.0 · 2023=1.6 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325510 · Hahnville, LA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.6 · 17% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/9
  • PHOTO USA IL South Holland…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~47 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: USA IL South Holland Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Arkema St. Charles in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Arkema St. Charles averages 0.6 TCR (17% of the Latex paint (i.e., water based) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Arkema St. Charles TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=1.6 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Arkema St. Charles falls in its industry

530 Latex paint (i.e., water based establishments

Safer than 96% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Louisiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 9 Latex paint (i.e., water based employers in Louisiana.

Arkema St. Charles (47 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Arkema St. Charles
Arkema St. Charles (47 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Arkema St. Charles has fewer employees than the Latex paint (i.e., water based) manufact median and a lower 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 1.6 0.0 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325510 · LA · Hahnville

530 Latex paint (i.e., water based) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 6,723 rated employers in Louisiana with headcount on file · 26 employers in Hahnville, 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 USA IL South Holland Plant 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR DSM Desotech Inc. 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rust-Oleum Corporation - Waupun 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Beckers Specialty Corp 0.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Luling 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE HB Rentals - Broussard 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE EXCEL Contractors @ Westlake Geismar 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE F.J. Burnell, Inc. 47 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dow Chemical Company SCO Hahnville LA 275 FTE
CITY-NEAR JFSNA at Dow Hahnville 180 FTE
CITY-NEAR Occidental (OxyChem) Taft LA 120 FTE
CITY-NEAR Galata Chemicals, LLC 114 FTE
NAT-TCR Riggs Industries, Inc. 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Library Services 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR BC Construction Group 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR American Red Cross - 2425 Park Road 0.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE FSG-CA-Blythe 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Central Produce Distributors Inc. 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Continental Distributing - 945 S. Main Street 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Louisville 47 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. 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.