Blood banks · Louisiana

LifeShare Blood Center- Lake Charles

Lake Charles, LA · ~34 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
15.7
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

LifeShare Blood Center- Lake Charles runs at 412% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Blood banks workplace, earning a grade F.

LifeShare Blood Center- Lake Charles: 15.7 TCR = 412% of Blood banks BLS 3.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

LifeShare Blood Center- Lake Charles safety composite

LifeShare Blood Center- Lake Charles scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 2%), 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 15.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% 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

−18.3

2020→2021

LifeShare Blood Center- Lake Charles injury rate improved

LifeShare Blood Center- Lake Charles's TCR fell 18.3 from 24.8 in 2020 to 6.5 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 24.8 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.21× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=24.8 · 2021=6.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621991 · Lake Charles, LA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 15.7 · 412% of ind

  • DART 3.2 DART
  • RANK #38/39
  • PHOTO Ankeny, IA-Biolife 654
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~34 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ankeny, IA-Biolife 654 (0.0 TCR gap)

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LifeShare Blood Center- Lake Charles in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows LifeShare Blood Center- Lake Charles averages 15.7 TCR (412% of the Blood banks BLS benchmark).

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

LifeShare Blood Center- Lake Charles TCR series: 2020=24.8 · 2021=6.5 · BLS 3.8

Where LifeShare Blood Center- Lake Charles falls in its industry

1,713 Blood banks establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Louisiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #38 safest of 39 Blood banks employers in Louisiana.

LifeShare Blood Center- Lake Charles (34 employees, TCR 15.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 4.3 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate LifeShare Blood Center- Lake Charles
LifeShare Blood Center- Lake Charles (34 employees, TCR 15.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 4.3

LifeShare Blood Center- Lake Charles has fewer employees than the Blood banks median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.3. 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
2021 6.5 3.2 2 0 0
2020 24.8 17.7 2 5 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621991 · LA · Lake Charles

1,713 Blood banks 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 Ankeny, IA-Biolife 654 15.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vista, CA-Biolife 778 15.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR AMERICAN RED CROSS - 10640 DEME DR 15.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR AMERICAN RED CROSS - 22971 MILL CREEK DR 15.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bunkie Service Center 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Entergy Bienville/Arcadia 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Broussard ENK9 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hand Construction, LLC 34 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 Store 1036 15.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 075 Heddington Oaks 15.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 230415-Bal-Highlandtown Sta 15.7 TCR
NAT-TCR J&B Group St Michael 15.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Arbor Place 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Williams Tunnel Industrirs, Inc. 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Installed Building Products of West Palm #778 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Eastern Contractor Services - Tuckerton 34 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: 2021, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.