Group homes, intellectual and developmental disability · Louisiana

Lafa Core Office

Lafayette, LA · ~29 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.6
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lafa Core Office runs at 148% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Group homes, intellectual and developmental disability workplace, earning a grade D.

Lafa Core Office: 5.6 TCR = 148% of Group homes, intellectual and developmental disability BLS 3.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lafa Core Office safety composite

Lafa Core Office scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 42%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% 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

−6.4

2017→2019

Lafa Core Office injury rate improved

Lafa Core Office's TCR fell 6.4 from 9.6 in 2017 to 3.2 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 9.6 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.58× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=9.6 · 2018=4.0 · 2019=3.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623210 · Lafayette, LA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.6 · 148% of ind

  • DART 3.2 DART
  • RANK #4/8
  • PHOTO Darien
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~29 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Darien (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lafa Core Office in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lafa Core Office averages 5.6 TCR (148% of the Group homes, intellectual and developmental disability BLS benchmark).

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

Lafa Core Office TCR series: 2017=9.6 · 2018=4 · 2019=3.2 · BLS 3.8

Where Lafa Core Office falls in its industry

2,261 Group homes, intellectual and establishments

Safer than 51% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Louisiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 8 Group homes, intellectual and employers in Louisiana.

Lafa Core Office (29 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 5.8 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Lafa Core Office
Lafa Core Office (29 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 5.8

Lafa Core Office has fewer employees than the Group homes, intellectual and developmen median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.8. 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
2019 3.2 3.2 8 0 0
2018 4.0 4.0 1 0 0
2017 9.6 3.2 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623210 · LA · Lafayette

2,261 Group homes, intellectual and developmental disability 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 Darien 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lakeshore 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Arc of Essex County 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Arc Middlesex County 5.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Walsh Timber Company 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mansfield 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE MI Swaco 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Claiborne Electric Cooperative, Inc. District Office 29 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 Athens Biotest Plasma Center 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Horizon Specialty Hospital of Henderson 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Main Office 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR GNC-Appleton 5.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Apache Junction APA 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Catoosa CAT 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Troy CVA 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Southern Tank & Manufacturing 29 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: 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.