Fabricated pipe and pipe fittings made from purchased pipe · Louisiana

Carpenter & Paterson Waggaman Branch

Waggaman, LA · ~120 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Carpenter & Paterson Waggaman Branch runs at 54% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Fabricated pipe and pipe fittings made from purchased pipe workplace, earning a grade B.

Carpenter & Paterson Waggaman Branch: 1.8 TCR = 54% of Fabricated pipe and pipe fittings made from purchased pipe BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Carpenter & Paterson Waggaman Branch safety composite

Carpenter & Paterson Waggaman Branch scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 81% 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).

C

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% 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%).

Carpenter & Paterson Waggaman Branch held a steady TCR band

Carpenter & Paterson Waggaman Branch's TCR held near 0.0 from 1.8 in 2018 to 1.8 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=1.8 · 2019=1.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332996 · Waggaman, LA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.8 · 54% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #12/19
  • PHOTO Stewart Tubular Prod…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~120 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Stewart Tubular Products (0.0 TCR gap)

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Carpenter & Paterson Waggaman Branch in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Carpenter & Paterson Waggaman Branch averages 1.8 TCR (54% of the Fabricated pipe and pipe fittings made from purchased pipe BLS benchmark).

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

Carpenter & Paterson Waggaman Branch TCR series: 2018=1.8 · 2019=1.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Carpenter & Paterson Waggaman Branch falls in its industry

337 Fabricated pipe and pipe fitti establishments

Safer than 72% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Louisiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 19 Fabricated pipe and pipe fitti employers in Louisiana.

Carpenter & Paterson Waggaman Branch (120 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 02004006008001,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Carpenter & Paterson Waggaman Branch
Carpenter & Paterson Waggaman Branch (120 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Carpenter & Paterson Waggaman Branch has more employees than the Fabricated pipe and pipe fittings made f median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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
2019 1.8 0.0 1 1 0
2018 1.8 0.9 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332996 · LA · Waggaman

337 Fabricated pipe and pipe fittings made from purchased pipe employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 6,723 rated employers in Louisiana with headcount on file · 14 employers in Waggaman, 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 Stewart Tubular Products 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR St. Louis Shop 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR NuWeld, Inc. 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR RW Lyall 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Shreveport Operations 120 FTE
STATE-SIZE Occidental (OxyChem) Taft LA 120 FTE
STATE-SIZE Waveland Services Inc. 120 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cargill Agricultural Supply Chain - Reserve Grain 120 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cornerstone Chemical Company- Fortier 494 FTE
CITY-NEAR New Orleans Marine 175 FTE
CITY-NEAR Carpenter & Paterson Inc. 174 FTE
CITY-NEAR ARTCO Stevedoring 162 FTE
NAT-TCR Deltec 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Marietta City School District (Park) 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Hydro - Portland Coatings 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR The Robbins Company Conveyor Division 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Omni Systems Inc 120 FTE
NAT-SIZE LMR Plastics, Parkway Greeneville TN 120 FTE
NAT-SIZE Elzinga & Volkers Inc. 120 FTE
NAT-SIZE Advanced Disposal - Moody Hauling 120 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: 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.