Gases, industrial (i.e., compressed, liquefied, solid), manufacturing · Louisiana

Linde - Gonzales

Gonzales, LA · ~28 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Linde - Gonzales runs at 120% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Gases, industrial (i.e., compressed, liquefied, solid), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Linde - Gonzales: 4.0 TCR = 120% of Gases, industrial (i.e., compressed, liquefied, solid), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Linde - Gonzales safety composite

Linde - Gonzales scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 7%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Linde - Gonzales: 2.7 → 6.4 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 6.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.62× in 2018

Linde - Gonzales's TCR rose 3.7 from 2.7 in 2016 to 6.4 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.62× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325120 · Gonzales, LA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.0 · 120% of ind

  • DART 6.4 DART
  • RANK #16/16
  • PHOTO Linde - Cartersville
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Linde - Cartersville (0.0 TCR gap)

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Linde - Gonzales in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Linde - Gonzales averages 4.0 TCR (120% of the Gases, industrial (i.e., compressed, liquefied, solid), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Linde - Gonzales TCR series: 2016=2.7 · 2017=2.7 · 2018=6.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Linde - Gonzales falls in its industry

295 Gases, industrial (i.e., compr establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Louisiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 16 Gases, industrial (i.e., compr employers in Louisiana.

Linde - Gonzales (28 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9 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 020406080100120 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Linde - Gonzales
Linde - Gonzales (28 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Linde - Gonzales has fewer employees than the Gases, industrial (i.e., compressed, liq median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. 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
2018 6.4 6.4 2 0 0
2017 2.7 2.7 1 0 0
2016 2.7 2.7 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325120 · LA · Gonzales

295 Gases, industrial (i.e., compressed, liquefied, solid), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 6,723 rated employers in Louisiana with headcount on file · 91 employers in Gonzales, 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 Linde - Cartersville 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR HGI Decatur 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kittery 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Linde - Aiken 3.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Athens Hatchery 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ensco (Valaris) Broussard Facility 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lafayette 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE DIS-TRAN Packaged Substations LLC Warehouse 28 FTE
CITY-NEAR Specialty Welding and Turnarounds, LLC 2,051 FTE
CITY-NEAR 532 511 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smith Tank & Steel, Inc. 450 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 532 435 FTE
NAT-TCR Linde - Cartersville 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Corpus-Hct-Corpus Christi 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Briggs & Stratton Corp.- Turf & Consumer Products 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Shopko Hometown #774 (Livingston, MT) 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Linde - Lima 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Newalta North Dakota Branch Office 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dubuque Obstetrics & Gynecology, PC 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Courtyard Austin N 28 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: 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.