automotive body paint and interior repair and maintenance · Louisiana

Lake Charles

Lake Charles, LA · ~104 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
2.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lake Charles runs at 66% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical automotive body paint and interior repair and maintenance workplace, earning a grade B.

Lake Charles: 1.4 TCR = 66% of automotive body paint and interior repair and maintenance BLS 2.1 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lake Charles safety composite

Lake Charles scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 84% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

72/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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%).

Lake Charles held a steady TCR band

Lake Charles's TCR held near 0.1 from 0.1 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 6.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.1 · 2017=0.1 · 2018=0.1 · 2019=0.1 · 2020=6.8 · 2021=2.8 · 2022=2.3 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 811121 · Lake Charles, LA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.4 · 66% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P84
  • PHOTO Jeffersonville
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 70 inj
  • SIZE ~104 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Jeffersonville (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lake Charles in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lake Charles averages 1.4 TCR (66% of the automotive body paint and interior repair and maintenance BLS benchmark).

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

Lake Charles TCR series: 2016=0.1 · 2017=0.1 · 2018=0.1 · 2019=0.1 · 2020=6.8 · 2021=2.8 · 2022=2.3 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.1

Where Lake Charles falls in its industry

277 automotive body paint and inte establishments

Safer than 84% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Lake Charles (104 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 3.6 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Lake Charles
Lake Charles (104 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 3.6

Lake Charles has more employees than the automotive body paint and interior repai median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.6. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 2.3 0.0 4 0 0
2021 2.8 2.8 5 0 0
2020 6.8 5.0 11 0 0
2019 0.1 0.1 12 0 0
2018 0.1 0.1 18 0 0
2017 0.1 0.1 13 0 0
2016 0.1 0.1 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

811121 · LA · Lake Charles

277 automotive body paint and interior repair and maintenance 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 Jeffersonville 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wheeler Upfitters LLC 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mid Atlantic Collision Center 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Danville 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Enterprise Products - Fractionation 104 FTE
STATE-SIZE CETCO Energy Services Company-New Iberia 104 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nelson Station 104 FTE
STATE-SIZE Phylway Construction, LLC 104 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 Distribution Services 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Calinc Services, Inc. 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Behr Paint Company Yale MFG 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Wood Group Pratt & Whitney Industrial Turbine Services, LLC. 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE S04193 - WM of Utah West Jordan 104 FTE
NAT-SIZE MLC-IE 104 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0234 Los Angeles 104 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0196 Thousand Oaks 104 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.