Industrial product finishes and coatings (i.e., paint) manufacturing · Louisiana

Carboline Lake Charles

Lake Charles, LA · ~94 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Carboline Lake Charles runs at 11% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Industrial product finishes and coatings (i.e., paint) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Carboline Lake Charles: 0.4 TCR = 11% of Industrial product finishes and coatings (i.e., paint) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Carboline Lake Charles safety composite

Carboline Lake Charles scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 99% 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

80/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 99% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.1

2022→2024

Carboline Lake Charles injury rate improved

Carboline Lake Charles's TCR fell 1.1 from 1.1 in 2022 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 1.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=1.1 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade A · TCR 0.4 · 11% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/9
  • PHOTO E&R Powder Coating
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~94 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: E&R Powder Coating (0.0 TCR gap)

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Carboline Lake Charles in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Carboline Lake Charles averages 0.4 TCR (11% of the Industrial product finishes and coatings (i.e., paint) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Carboline Lake Charles TCR series: 2022=1.1 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Carboline Lake Charles falls in its industry

530 Industrial product finishes an establishments

Safer than 99% 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 #1 safest of 9 Industrial product finishes an employers in Louisiana.

Carboline Lake Charles (94 employees, TCR 0.4) 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 Carboline Lake Charles
Carboline Lake Charles (94 employees, TCR 0.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Carboline Lake Charles has more employees than the Industrial product finishes and coatings 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 1.1 1.1 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325510 · LA · Lake Charles

530 Industrial product finishes and coatings (i.e., paint) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 6,723 rated employers in Louisiana with headcount on file · 197 employers in Lake Charles, 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 E&R Powder Coating 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR USA IN Elkhart Plant 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mankiewicz Coatings LLC 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR USA GA Covington Plant 0.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Tokai CarbonCB.com 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dolet Hills Power Station 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE Prairie Contractors, Inc. 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE CECO Concrete Construction : New Orleans 94 FTE
CITY-NEAR Golden Nugget Lake Charles 2,182 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lauberge Casino Resort 1,973 FTE
CITY-NEAR Westlake Chemical Sout 1,063 FTE
CITY-NEAR Westlake Chemical South 1,054 FTE
NAT-TCR Patterson Corporate Headquarters 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Villagrana Logistics Inc 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Farmington High School 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Paragon Painting & Waterproofing 0.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE YMCA of Memphis - Olive Branch 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE Odin Health and Rehab Center 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE QuickBox Fulfillment - New Jersey 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE Paradigm Services Inc. 94 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.