Chemicals (except agriculture) (e.g., automotive, household, industrial, photographic) merchant wholesalers · Louisiana
Gulf Coast Companies, Inc.
Abbeville, LA · ~51 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- C
- Average Safety Record
- 2.0
- Avg TCR
- 2.2
- Industry avg
- 0
- Fatalities
The verdict
Gulf Coast Companies, Inc. runs at 90% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Chemicals (except agriculture) (e.g., automotive, household, industrial, photographic) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.
Gulf Coast Companies, Inc.: 2.0 TCR = 90% of Chemicals (except agriculture) (e.g., automotive, household, industrial, photographic) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)
Gulf Coast Companies, Inc. safety composite
Gulf Coast Companies, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 48%), 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).
56/100
Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures
- Total Case Rate (TCR)
- D 1.98 per 100 workers
Safer than 48% of industry peers
- DART rate
- C 0 per 100 workers
Safer than 70% 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
Gulf Coast Companies, Inc.: 0.0 → 2.4 TCR
Peak year 2020 @ 5.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024
Gulf Coast Companies, Inc.'s TCR rose 2.4 from 0.0 in 2018 to 2.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 5.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).
OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard
Establishment book 424690 · Abbeville, LA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL
Grade C · TCR 2.0 · 90% of ind
- DART 0.0 DART
- RANK #9/13
- PHOTO Industrial Chemicals…
- BOOK 7y book
- INJ 6 inj
- SIZE ~51 FTE
Nearest TCR peer: Industrial Chemicals Corporation (0.0 TCR gap)
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Gulf Coast Companies, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood
Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers
- This site
Gulf Coast Companies, Inc.
2 TCR
- Industrial Che
Industrial Chemicals Corporation
2 TCR
- Winco Firework
Winco Fireworks International, LLC - Warehouse
2 TCR
- Nexeo Solution
Nexeo Solutions - Fairfield
2 TCR
- W.A. Murphy Co
W.A. Murphy Company, INC.
2 TCR
What this shows Gulf Coast Companies, Inc. averages 2.0 TCR (90% of the Chemicals (except agriculture) (e.g., automotive, household, industrial, photographic) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).
Gulf Coast Companies, Inc. TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=1.5 · 2020=5.5 · 2021=0 · 2022=2.2 · 2023=2.2 · 2024=2.4 · BLS 2.2
Where Gulf Coast Companies, Inc. falls in its industry
766 Chemicals (except agriculture) establishmentsSafer than 48% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.
Narrower to Louisiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 13 Chemicals (except agriculture) employers in Louisiana.
Gulf Coast Companies, Inc. has more employees than the Chemicals (except agriculture) (e.g., au median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. 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 | 2.4 | 0.0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2.2 | 2.2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2.2 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 5.5 | 1.8 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
OSHA ITA peer cross-reference
Establishment peer ledger
424690 · LA · Abbeville
766 Chemicals (except agriculture) (e.g., automotive, household, industrial, photographic) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 6,723 rated employers in Louisiana with headcount on file · 26 employers in Abbeville, 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 | Industrial Chemicals Corporation | 2.0 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | Winco Fireworks International, LLC - Warehouse | 2.0 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | Nexeo Solutions - Fairfield | 2.0 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | W.A. Murphy Company, INC. | 2.0 TCR |
| STATE-SIZE | Kennedy Rice Dryers, LLC | 51 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | 7334-America Styrenics | 51 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | FJ Burnell, Inc. | 51 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | Satco Inc | 51 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | Main Office | 386 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | WM 309 | 310 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | 309 | 309 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | Ecoserv, LLC | 188 FTE |
| NAT-TCR | Wright Transportation, Inc. | 2.0 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | Impossible Foods | 2.0 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | Community Education Programs | 2.0 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | Diversified Maintenance RWS LLC | 2.0 TCR |
| NAT-SIZE | Cook General Engineering Inc. | 51 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | Schust Development, Inc | 51 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | Lancaster OH | 51 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | Fulda Elementary | 51 FTE |
Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.