Retail Hardware Stores · Louisiana

Lake Charles, La #00247

Lake Charles, LA · ~15 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lake Charles, La #00247 runs at 57% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Retail Hardware Stores workplace, earning a grade B.

Lake Charles, La #00247: 1.9 TCR = 57% of Retail Hardware Stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lake Charles, La #00247 safety composite

Lake Charles, La #00247 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 92% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 17%), 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

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Lake Charles, La #00247: 0.0 → 9.6 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 9.6 TCR · DART/TCR 4.99× in 2023

Lake Charles, La #00247's TCR rose 9.6 from 0.0 in 2019 to 9.6 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 4.99× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444130 · Lake Charles, LA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.9 · 57% of ind

  • DART 9.6 DART
  • RANK #3/27
  • PHOTO BIG RAPIDS, MI #03037
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~15 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: BIG RAPIDS, MI #03037 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lake Charles, La #00247 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lake Charles, La #00247 averages 1.9 TCR (57% of the Retail Hardware Stores BLS benchmark).

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

Lake Charles, La #00247 TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=9.6 · BLS 3.4

Where Lake Charles, La #00247 falls in its industry

1,493 Retail Hardware Stores establishments

Safer than 92% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Louisiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 27 Retail Hardware Stores employers in Louisiana.

Lake Charles, La #00247 (15 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 6.2 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 02004006008001,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Lake Charles, La #00247
Lake Charles, La #00247 (15 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 6.2

Lake Charles, La #00247 has fewer employees than the Retail Hardware Stores median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.2. 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
2023 9.6 9.6 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444130 · LA · Lake Charles

1,493 Retail Hardware Stores 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. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR BIG RAPIDS, MI #03037 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR West Salem - Commerce St 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR HARRISBURG, PA #00140 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Midland Tool & Supply 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Flow-Chem Technologies Rayne 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mansfield Service Center 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fort Johnson 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE Case Industries LLC 15 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 Evansville East (S101) 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #4450 PUEBLO, CO 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Construction 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #1529 EAST STROUDSBURG, PA 1.9 TCR

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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.