Air cowls, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing · Louisiana

Custom Metal Fabricators, Inc.

Lake Charles, LA · ~32 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Custom Metal Fabricators, Inc. runs at 64% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Air cowls, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Custom Metal Fabricators, Inc.: 2.1 TCR = 64% of Air cowls, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Custom Metal Fabricators, Inc. safety composite

Custom Metal Fabricators, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 34%), 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

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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%).

Custom Metal Fabricators, Inc. held a steady TCR band

Custom Metal Fabricators, Inc.'s TCR held near 0.1 from 3.3 in 2020 to 3.1 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2020 at 3.3 TCR. In 2022, DART was 1.47× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=3.3 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=3.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332322 · Lake Charles, LA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.1 · 64% of ind

  • DART 3.1 DART
  • RANK #3/8
  • PHOTO p&g manufacturing
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~32 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: p&g manufacturing (0.0 TCR gap)

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Custom Metal Fabricators, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Custom Metal Fabricators, Inc. averages 2.1 TCR (64% of the Air cowls, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Custom Metal Fabricators, Inc. TCR series: 2020=3.3 · 2021=0 · 2022=3.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Custom Metal Fabricators, Inc. falls in its industry

1,158 Air cowls, sheet metal (except establishments

Safer than 82% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Louisiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 8 Air cowls, sheet metal (except employers in Louisiana.

Custom Metal Fabricators, Inc. (32 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 050100150200 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Custom Metal Fabricators, Inc.
Custom Metal Fabricators, Inc. (32 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Custom Metal Fabricators, Inc. has fewer employees than the Air cowls, sheet metal (except stampings median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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
2022 3.1 3.1 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 3.3 3.3 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332322 · LA · Lake Charles

1,158 Air cowls, sheet metal (except stampings), 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 p&g manufacturing 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR CANFAB Management LLC 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ludlow Manufacturing Inc. 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Omnimax 2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE CORE Boiler & Mechanical Services 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Measurement Technologies, Inc. 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Entergy - Lake Charles Power Station 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Entergy - J. Wayne Leonard Power Station 32 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 Kerr Lake Nursing & Rehab 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Southwest Concrete Products 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Cascos Municipio San Juan 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Rudd Company 2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Herff Jones Frames 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Westlake 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Atomic Distributing Company 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Thompson Industrial Services, LLC, Division 35 32 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: 2022, 2021, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.