Trucking, general freight, local · Louisiana

Gonzales DSD

Gonzales, LA · ~48 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.2
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Gonzales DSD runs at 161% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Trucking, general freight, local workplace, earning a grade D.

Gonzales DSD: 7.2 TCR = 161% of Trucking, general freight, local BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gonzales DSD safety composite

Gonzales DSD scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 19%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Gonzales DSD: 3.6 → 10.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 10.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1× in 2024

Gonzales DSD's TCR rose 7.2 from 3.6 in 2023 to 10.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484110 · Gonzales, LA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.2 · 161% of ind

  • DART 7.2 DART
  • RANK #23/26
  • PHOTO HDS Berkeley
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~48 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: HDS Berkeley (0.0 TCR gap)

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Gonzales DSD in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gonzales DSD averages 7.2 TCR (161% of the Trucking, general freight, local BLS benchmark).

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

Gonzales DSD TCR series: 2023=3.6 · 2024=10.9 · BLS 4.5

Where Gonzales DSD falls in its industry

2,784 Trucking, general freight, loc establishments

Safer than 26% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Louisiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #23 safest of 26 Trucking, general freight, loc employers in Louisiana.

Gonzales DSD (48 employees, TCR 7.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Gonzales DSD
Gonzales DSD (48 employees, TCR 7.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Gonzales DSD has more employees than the Trucking, general freight, local median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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 10.9 7.2 6 0 0
2023 3.6 3.6 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484110 · LA · Gonzales

2,784 Trucking, general freight, local employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 6,723 rated employers in Louisiana with headcount on file · 91 employers in Gonzales, 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 HDS Berkeley 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dunkel Bros. Machinery Moving Inc. 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cumberland Farms Inc. (Drivers) Albany Area 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR DT Chicagoland Express Inc, d.b.a. CXI Trucking 7.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Martco, L.L.C. (Forestry) 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE CenterPoint Energy - Lake Charles 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Entergy Magnolia St. LA 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Buquet and Leblanc Inc. 48 FTE
CITY-NEAR Specialty Welding and Turnarounds, LLC 2,051 FTE
CITY-NEAR 532 511 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smith Tank & Steel, Inc. 450 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 532 435 FTE
NAT-TCR Saint Agnes Medical Center 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Quality Custom Distribution 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Hampton Inn & Suites Bridgewater 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Dawn Food Products - Southwest Distribution 7.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE RMJ Farm Labor Contractor 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Altoona Lodging, LLC 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Star Freeport Company 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dallas Field Office 48 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.