Garbage disposal units, commercial-type, manufacturing · Louisiana

Mechanical Equipment Company, Inc.

Mandevile, LA · ~242 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Mechanical Equipment Company, Inc. runs at 12% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Garbage disposal units, commercial-type, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Mechanical Equipment Company, Inc.: 0.4 TCR = 12% of Garbage disposal units, commercial-type, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Mechanical Equipment Company, Inc. safety composite

Mechanical Equipment Company, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 96% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 96% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% 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%).

Mechanical Equipment Company, Inc. held a steady TCR band

Mechanical Equipment Company, Inc.'s TCR held near 0.0 from 0.4 in 2023 to 0.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.05× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=0.4 · 2024=0.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333318 · Mandevile, LA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.4 · 12% of ind

  • DART 0.4 DART
  • RANK #1/9
  • PHOTO International Dioxci…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~242 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: International Dioxcide, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Mechanical Equipment Company, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Mechanical Equipment Company, Inc. averages 0.4 TCR (12% of the Garbage disposal units, commercial-type, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Mechanical Equipment Company, Inc. TCR series: 2023=0.4 · 2024=0.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Mechanical Equipment Company, Inc. falls in its industry

361 Garbage disposal units, commer establishments

Safer than 96% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Louisiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 9 Garbage disposal units, commer employers in Louisiana.

Mechanical Equipment Company, Inc. (242 employees, TCR 0.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 77 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 05001,0001,5002,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Mechanical Equipment Company, Inc.
Mechanical Equipment Company, Inc. (242 employees, TCR 0.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 77 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Mechanical Equipment Company, Inc. has more employees than the Garbage disposal units, commercial-type, median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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 0.4 0.4 1 0 0
2023 0.4 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333318 · LA · Mandevile

361 Garbage disposal units, commercial-type, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 6,723 rated employers in Louisiana with headcount on file · 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 International Dioxcide, Inc. 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Industrial Technologies Group (ITG) : Stenograph 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Red Hill 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR PBI - WHQ Stamford (CTD3) 0.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE 1347 - Shreveport 242 FTE
STATE-SIZE 976 242 FTE
STATE-SIZE OLG Ochsner American Legion Hospital 242 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lake Charles Branch 242 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rouses Market #21 127 FTE
NAT-TCR Delaware East 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR NAS-National Aerospace Solutions at AEDC 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Chicopee Ma Distribution Center 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Universal Metro Inc 0.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Soho House New York Inc 242 FTE
NAT-SIZE IOSM Inc. dba On-Site Health & Safety 242 FTE
NAT-SIZE EB Martin Luther Manor 242 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kenyon Industries, Inc. 242 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. 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.