Retail Hardware Stores · Louisiana

Covington, La #00542

Covington, LA · ~18 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
16.9
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Covington, La #00542 runs at 496% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Retail Hardware Stores workplace, earning a grade F.

Covington, La #00542: 16.9 TCR = 496% of Retail Hardware Stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Covington, La #00542 safety composite

Covington, La #00542 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 0%), 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).

F

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 16.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 37.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% 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

Covington, La #00542: 19.1 → 46.7 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 46.7 TCR · DART/TCR 2.21× in 2023

Covington, La #00542's TCR rose 27.6 from 19.1 in 2019 to 46.7 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 2.21× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444130 · Covington, LA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 16.9 · 496% of ind

  • DART 37.3 DART
  • RANK #26/27
  • PHOTO ATTLEBORO, MA #00312
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~18 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ATTLEBORO, MA #00312 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Covington, La #00542 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Covington, La #00542 averages 16.9 TCR (496% of the Retail Hardware Stores BLS benchmark).

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

Covington, La #00542 TCR series: 2019=19.1 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=18.6 · 2023=46.7 · BLS 3.4

Where Covington, La #00542 falls in its industry

1,493 Retail Hardware Stores establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Louisiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #26 safest of 27 Retail Hardware Stores employers in Louisiana.

Covington, La #00542 (18 employees, TCR 16.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 6.2 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 02004006008001,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Covington, La #00542
Covington, La #00542 (18 employees, TCR 16.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 6.2

Covington, La #00542 has fewer employees than the Retail Hardware Stores median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.2. 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
2023 46.7 37.3 5 0 0
2022 18.6 9.3 2 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 19.1 19.1 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444130 · LA · Covington

1,493 Retail Hardware Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 6,723 rated employers in Louisiana with headcount on file · 104 employers in Covington, LA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR ATTLEBORO, MA #00312 16.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0742 - CONROE, TX 16.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big R of Santa Ana Pueblo, LLC. 16.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR BAKERSFIELD SOUTH, CA #00681 16.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Broussard Wireline 1062 Aillet Rd 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pineville Apparatus Maintenance 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE JW Grand Inc. 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ft Polk -Womens Health 18 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chevron North America Exploration and Production Company Gulf of Mexico 2,113 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hornbeck Offshore Services, LLC 941 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lakeview Regional Medical Center, a Campus of Tulane Medical Center 758 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lakeview Regional Medical Center 729 FTE
NAT-TCR Elk Ridge Memory Care 16.9 TCR
NAT-TCR HG190 16.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 6962-SWY-0029-0029-02434 16.9 TCR
NAT-TCR main 16.9 TCR

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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.