General medical and surgical hospitals · Louisiana

Heart Hospital of Lafayette

Lafayette, LA · ~251 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
8.6
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Heart Hospital of Lafayette runs at 114% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical General medical and surgical hospitals workplace, earning a grade C.

Heart Hospital of Lafayette: 8.6 TCR = 114% of General medical and surgical hospitals BLS 7.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Heart Hospital of Lafayette safety composite

Heart Hospital of Lafayette scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 78% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 13%), 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).

D

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

Heart Hospital of Lafayette: 7.8 → 9.6 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 9.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.06× in 2018

Heart Hospital of Lafayette's TCR rose 1.8 from 7.8 in 2016 to 9.6 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.06× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · Lafayette, LA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 8.6 · 114% of ind

  • DART 0.5 DART
  • RANK #95/100
  • PHOTO Lakes Medical Center
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 49 inj
  • SIZE ~251 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lakes Medical Center (0.0 TCR gap)

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Heart Hospital of Lafayette in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Heart Hospital of Lafayette averages 8.6 TCR (114% of the General medical and surgical hospitals BLS benchmark).

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

Heart Hospital of Lafayette TCR series: 2016=7.8 · 2017=8.3 · 2018=9.6 · BLS 7.5

Where Heart Hospital of Lafayette falls in its industry

6,862 General medical and surgical h establishments

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Louisiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #95 safest of 100 General medical and surgical h employers in Louisiana.

Heart Hospital of Lafayette (251 employees, TCR 8.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2 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 02,0004,0006,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Heart Hospital of Lafayette
Heart Hospital of Lafayette (251 employees, TCR 8.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Heart Hospital of Lafayette has fewer employees than the General medical and surgical hospitals median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.2. 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
2018 9.6 0.5 19 0 0
2017 8.3 3.1 16 0 0
2016 7.8 1.1 14 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · LA · Lafayette

6,862 General medical and surgical hospitals employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 6,723 rated employers in Louisiana with headcount on file · 312 employers in Lafayette, 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 Lakes Medical Center 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 64030240-240001 SEQUOIA HOSPITAL HEALTH SERVICES 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR MultiCare Valley Hospital (Company 22) 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lakeland Hospital Niles 8.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - DLB2 251 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Folger Coffee Co.- Chef 252 FTE
STATE-SIZE Shell Chemical Norco 250 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 98 250 FTE
CITY-NEAR Acadian Ambulance 3,166 FTE
CITY-NEAR OLG Lafayette General Medical Center 2,489 FTE
CITY-NEAR Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center, Inc. 1,348 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stuller, Inc. Global Headquarters 1,330 FTE
NAT-TCR Price's - El Paso - FDD 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 176 ABC Supply Co., Inc 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Atrium Post Acute Care of Williams Bay 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-Swy 0019 0285 8.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Tutle and Tutle Trucking, Inc. 251 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lake Ellenor Marketing 251 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kaeser - Headquarters 251 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bemis North America - Neenah 251 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.