Pallet Wood Plant · Louisiana

Hammond,LA - 238

Hammond, LA · ~51 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hammond,LA - 238 runs at 142% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Pallet Wood Plant workplace, earning a grade D.

Hammond,LA - 238: 4.7 TCR = 142% of Pallet Wood Plant BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hammond,LA - 238 safety composite

Hammond,LA - 238 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 65% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.1

2022→2024

Hammond,LA - 238 injury rate improved

Hammond,LA - 238's TCR fell 3.1 from 6.3 in 2022 to 3.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 6.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.68× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=6.3 · 2023=4.6 · 2024=3.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321920 · Hammond, LA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.7 · 142% of ind

  • DART 3.2 DART
  • RANK #5/6
  • PHOTO Recycled Nashville (…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~51 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Recycled Nashville (USRM) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hammond,LA - 238 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hammond,LA - 238 averages 4.7 TCR (142% of the Pallet Wood Plant BLS benchmark).

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

Hammond,LA - 238 TCR series: 2022=6.3 · 2023=4.6 · 2024=3.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Hammond,LA - 238 falls in its industry

952 Pallet Wood Plant establishments

Safer than 65% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Louisiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 6 Pallet Wood Plant employers in Louisiana.

Hammond,LA - 238 (51 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.3 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 0100200300400500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Hammond,LA - 238
Hammond,LA - 238 (51 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.3

Hammond,LA - 238 has more employees than the Pallet Wood Plant median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.3. 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 3.2 3.2 1 0 0
2023 4.6 4.6 2 0 0
2022 6.3 4.2 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321920 · LA · Hammond

952 Pallet Wood Plant employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 6,723 rated employers in Louisiana with headcount on file · 101 employers in Hammond, 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 Recycled Nashville (USRM) 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Transpak - DIV 155 Hayward Corsair 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Challenger Pallet TAP 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR CTC Packaging 4.7 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 Sanderson Farms Hammond Processing 600 FTE
CITY-NEAR 489 412 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 489 385 FTE
CITY-NEAR Intralox LLC - Hammond 245 FTE
NAT-TCR Shelton Winair 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR CUMBERLAND 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Bard Manufacturing Company, Inc. 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR K&I Sheet Metal Inc 4.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Famous Dave's - Minnetonka 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Johnson City Bedding Company 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pheonix - University Dr 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Omega Thermo Products LLC 51 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. 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.