Electrodes, welding, manufacturing · Louisiana

Leading Edge Mfg

Youngsville, LA · ~38 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Leading Edge Mfg runs at 300% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Electrodes, welding, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Leading Edge Mfg: 9.9 TCR = 300% of Electrodes, welding, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Leading Edge Mfg safety composite

Leading Edge Mfg scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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

Leading Edge Mfg: 8.0 → 11.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 11.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.14× in 2024

Leading Edge Mfg's TCR rose 3.3 from 8.0 in 2022 to 11.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.14× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333992 · Youngsville, LA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.9 · 300% of ind

  • DART 11.3 DART
  • RANK P4
  • PHOTO Welding Technologies…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~38 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Welding Technologies, Inc. (0.8 TCR gap)

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Leading Edge Mfg in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Leading Edge Mfg averages 9.9 TCR (300% of the Electrodes, welding, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Leading Edge Mfg TCR series: 2022=8 · 2023=10.4 · 2024=11.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Leading Edge Mfg falls in its industry

129 Electrodes, welding, manufactu establishments

Safer than 4% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Leading Edge Mfg (38 employees, TCR 9.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Leading Edge Mfg
Leading Edge Mfg (38 employees, TCR 9.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Leading Edge Mfg has fewer employees than the Electrodes, welding, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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
2024 11.3 11.3 5 0 0
2023 10.4 10.4 3 0 0
2022 8.0 8.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333992 · LA · Youngsville

129 Electrodes, welding, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 6,723 rated employers in Louisiana with headcount on file · 18 employers in Youngsville, 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 Welding Technologies, Inc. 10.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kiswel Inc 11.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Waconia MN 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Electron Beam Technologies, Inc. 8.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE START Building 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE River Parish Maintenance at Occidental Chemical Taft, Louisiana 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE M.D. Descant, LLC 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Performance Contractors, Inc. - Firestone Polymers 38 FTE
CITY-NEAR Schlumberger 165 FTE
CITY-NEAR Acadiana Bottling Company, Inc. 146 FTE
CITY-NEAR Super 1 Foods #645 132 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rouses Market #23 127 FTE
NAT-TCR Virginia Warehouse 9.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Rush Foundation Hospital 9.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Mission Point Health Campus of Jackson 9.9 TCR
NAT-TCR STONEBRIDGE Heath and Rehab 9.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Home Office 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - HBF5 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fresno Branch 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hyatt Place Yonkers 38 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. 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.