Water supply systems · Louisiana

Baton Rouge Water Company

Baton Rouge, LA · ~274 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
1.2
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Baton Rouge Water Company runs at 352% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Water supply systems workplace, earning a grade F.

Baton Rouge Water Company: 4.2 TCR = 352% of Water supply systems BLS 1.2 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Baton Rouge Water Company safety composite

Baton Rouge Water Company scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 1%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 1% 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

−2.8

2016→2024

Baton Rouge Water Company injury rate improved

Baton Rouge Water Company's TCR fell 2.8 from 6.3 in 2016 to 3.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 6.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.56× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.3 · 2017=4.8 · 2018=5.5 · 2019=3.0 · 2020=4.6 · 2021=2.6 · 2022=3.4 · 2024=3.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 221310 · Baton Rouge, LA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 4.2 · 352% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK #6/9
  • PHOTO Arvin-Edison Water S…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 78 inj
  • SIZE ~274 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Arvin-Edison Water Storage District (0.0 TCR gap)

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Baton Rouge Water Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Baton Rouge Water Company averages 4.2 TCR (352% of the Water supply systems BLS benchmark).

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

Baton Rouge Water Company TCR series: 2016=6.3 · 2017=4.8 · 2018=5.5 · 2019=3 · 2020=4.6 · 2021=2.6 · 2022=3.4 · 2024=3.5 · BLS 1.2

Where Baton Rouge Water Company falls in its industry

727 Water supply systems establishments

Safer than 50% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Louisiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 9 Water supply systems employers in Louisiana.

Baton Rouge Water Company (274 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.2 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Baton Rouge Water Company
Baton Rouge Water Company (274 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Baton Rouge Water Company has more employees than the Water supply systems median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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 3.5 2.4 11 1 0
2022 3.4 2.5 11 0 0
2021 2.6 1.6 6 2 1
2020 4.6 2.3 10 4 0
2019 3.0 2.4 8 1 0
2018 5.5 2.7 9 5 0
2017 4.8 3.3 10 3 0
2016 6.3 4.8 13 4 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

221310 · LA · Baton Rouge

727 Water supply systems employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 6,723 rated employers in Louisiana with headcount on file · 781 employers in Baton Rouge, 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 Arvin-Edison Water Storage District 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Otay Water District 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ypsilanti Community Utilities Authority - Administration & Wastewater Operations 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Us Pipe & Irrigation, LLC 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE ZWOLLE 274 FTE
STATE-SIZE LALAF - LAFAYETTE 274 FTE
STATE-SIZE Utility Lines Construction Services - 112 273 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dow Chemical Company SCO Hahnville LA 275 FTE
CITY-NEAR WEST REGION HEADQUARTERS 9,680 FTE
CITY-NEAR Brown & Root Industrial Services, LLC. 8,819 FTE
CITY-NEAR BATON ROUGE PACKERS 8,650 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baton Rouge 4,833 FTE
NAT-TCR Jennmar of Pennsylvania LLC 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Sugar Farms CO-OP 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR General Caulking Palm Beach 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR CMP - Bridgton Service Building 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Main Campus Residential Care Facilities 274 FTE
NAT-SIZE CAMCO Chemical Co. Inc 274 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nascote Industries - Mockingbird Road 274 FTE
NAT-SIZE Elder Corporation 274 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.