Automobile carrier trucking, long-distance · Louisiana

HTC Lake Charles

Lake Charles, LA · ~51 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

HTC Lake Charles runs at 111% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Automobile carrier trucking, long-distance workplace, earning a grade C.

HTC Lake Charles: 5.0 TCR = 111% of Automobile carrier trucking, long-distance BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

HTC Lake Charles safety composite

HTC Lake Charles scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 7%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

HTC Lake Charles: 3.1 → 8.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 8.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.72× in 2024

HTC Lake Charles's TCR rose 5.5 from 3.1 in 2021 to 8.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.72× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484230 · Lake Charles, LA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 5.0 · 111% of ind

  • DART 8.6 DART
  • RANK #36/43
  • PHOTO Johnsrud Transport
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~51 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Johnsrud Transport (0.0 TCR gap)

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HTC Lake Charles in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows HTC Lake Charles averages 5.0 TCR (111% of the Automobile carrier trucking, long-distance BLS benchmark).

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

HTC Lake Charles TCR series: 2021=3.1 · 2022=8.3 · 2023=0 · 2024=8.6 · BLS 4.5

Where HTC Lake Charles falls in its industry

1,026 Automobile carrier trucking, l establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Louisiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #36 safest of 43 Automobile carrier trucking, l employers in Louisiana.

HTC Lake Charles (51 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate HTC Lake Charles
HTC Lake Charles (51 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.2

HTC Lake Charles has more employees than the Automobile carrier trucking, long-distan median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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
2024 8.6 8.6 3 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 8.3 8.3 3 0 0
2021 3.1 3.1 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484230 · LA · Lake Charles

1,026 Automobile carrier trucking, long-distance employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 6,723 rated employers in Louisiana with headcount on file · 197 employers in Lake Charles, 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 Johnsrud Transport 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR KLX LLC 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Western Dairy Transport-Logan 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Red Mountain Transportation, LLC 5.0 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 Golden Nugget Lake Charles 2,182 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lauberge Casino Resort 1,973 FTE
CITY-NEAR Westlake Chemical Sout 1,063 FTE
CITY-NEAR Westlake Chemical South 1,054 FTE
NAT-TCR VNA Care Network 3 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Jan-Air INC 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Snohomish County Diversion Center 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Waters Construction Company, Inc. 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Masury 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Seats Vehicle Division 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Delmar Products 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Washington Floral Service, Inc. 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, 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.