Cane sugar manufacturing · Louisiana

Lula Factory

Belle Rose, LA · ~87 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.4
Avg TCR
4.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lula Factory runs at 152% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cane sugar manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Lula Factory: 6.4 TCR = 152% of Cane sugar manufacturing BLS 4.2 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lula Factory safety composite

Lula Factory scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 56% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 11%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

Fatalities
C 0

Safer than 56% 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

Lula Factory: 3.9 → 5.0 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 11.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.26× in 2022

Lula Factory's TCR rose 1.2 from 3.9 in 2016 to 5.0 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2017 at 11.5 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.26× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311314 · Belle Rose, LA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.4 · 152% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #16/18
  • PHOTO Westfield Factory
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 48 inj
  • SIZE ~87 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Westfield Factory (0.2 TCR gap)

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Lula Factory in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lula Factory averages 6.4 TCR (152% of the Cane sugar manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Lula Factory TCR series: 2016=3.9 · 2017=11.5 · 2018=2.6 · 2019=7.4 · 2020=7.4 · 2021=6.9 · 2022=5 · BLS 4.2

Where Lula Factory falls in its industry

57 Cane sugar manufacturing establishments

Safer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

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 18 Cane sugar manufacturing employers in Louisiana.

Lula Factory (87 employees, TCR 6.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 161 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Lula Factory
Lula Factory (87 employees, TCR 6.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 161 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Lula Factory has fewer employees than the Cane sugar manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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
2022 5.0 1.7 6 0 0
2021 6.9 3.5 7 1 0
2020 7.4 2.8 7 1 0
2019 7.4 4.9 9 0 0
2018 2.6 0.9 3 0 0
2017 11.5 6.2 12 1 0
2016 3.9 2.9 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311314 · LA · Belle Rose

57 Cane sugar manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 6,723 rated employers in Louisiana with headcount on file · 11 employers in Belle Rose, 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 Westfield Factory 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sugaright, LLC Ft Worth 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Osceola Farms Company 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR LOUISIANA SUGARCANE COOP 7.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hi-Tech Electric - New Orleans 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE Carboline Company-Lake Charles 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE Syrah Technologies 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE Conrad Amelia 87 FTE
CITY-NEAR Action Industries Inc. 174 FTE
CITY-NEAR A La Carte Foods Properties, LLC. 1 111 FTE
CITY-NEAR Westfield Sugar Factory 106 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lula Sugar Factory 92 FTE
NAT-TCR Hackensack, NJ 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Elizabethtown Warehouse 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Service Motor Company Dale 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Midwest Tile Marble & Granite 6.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Inmar - 4100 Atlanta 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE Crystal Holdings LLC 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nvlva - Las Vegas 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE Delta Baytown 87 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.