Excavation contractors · Louisiana

Directional Service South, LLC

Sulphur, LA · ~36 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.8
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Directional Service South, LLC runs at 27% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Excavation contractors workplace, earning a grade A.

Directional Service South, LLC: 0.8 TCR = 27% of Excavation contractors BLS 2.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Directional Service South, LLC safety composite

Directional Service South, LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 90% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 2%), 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

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 2% 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

−3.0

2021→2024

Directional Service South, LLC injury rate improved

Directional Service South, LLC's TCR fell 3.0 from 3.0 in 2021 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 3.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=3.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238910 · Sulphur, LA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.8 · 27% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #10/17
  • PHOTO Moorhead Brothers Inc
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~36 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Moorhead Brothers Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Directional Service South, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Directional Service South, LLC averages 0.8 TCR (27% of the Excavation contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Directional Service South, LLC TCR series: 2021=3 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.8

Where Directional Service South, LLC falls in its industry

1,750 Excavation contractors establishments

Safer than 90% 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 #10 safest of 17 Excavation contractors employers in Louisiana.

Directional Service South, LLC (36 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 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 050100150200250 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Directional Service South, LLC
Directional Service South, LLC (36 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Directional Service South, LLC has fewer employees than the Excavation contractors 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 3.0 0.0 1 0 1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238910 · LA · Sulphur

1,750 Excavation contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 6,723 rated employers in Louisiana with headcount on file · 89 employers in Sulphur, 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 Moorhead Brothers Inc 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gearig Civilworks, LLC 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Phillips and Jordan, Incorporated - Ford BOC and BOC Paint 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jimmy Hickman Excavating LLC 0.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Evans Equipment & Enviromental, Inc 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Office 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Performance Contractors, Inc. - Meadwestvaco 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Turner at Maintenance Division Baton Rouge LA 36 FTE
CITY-NEAR Turner at Sasol North America Sulphur LA 2,604 FTE
CITY-NEAR Brock Services Lake Charles LA 910 FTE
CITY-NEAR Greenberry Industrial - Gulf Coast 768 FTE
CITY-NEAR Petrochemical Complex 399 FTE
NAT-TCR Merjent, Inc. 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Altium Packaging - Londonderry 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Davis Center 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Fab-Tec Industries Inc 0.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hilton Garden Inn- Bakersfield 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Flexscreen PA Manufacturing 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chinook Contractors 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Regency Village at Bend Assisted Living 36 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, 2021. 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.