Natural nonfood coloring, manufacturing · Louisiana

Natural Advantage LLC, Oakdale Facility

Oakdale, LA · ~99 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Natural Advantage LLC, Oakdale Facility runs at 50% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Natural nonfood coloring, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Natural Advantage LLC, Oakdale Facility: 1.7 TCR = 50% of Natural nonfood coloring, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Natural Advantage LLC, Oakdale Facility safety composite

Natural Advantage LLC, Oakdale Facility scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 15%), 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).

D

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 1.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% 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

−0.4

2017→2024

Natural Advantage LLC, Oakdale Facility injury rate improved

Natural Advantage LLC, Oakdale Facility's TCR fell 0.4 from 3.6 in 2017 to 3.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 3.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.95× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=3.6 · 2021=0.5 · 2022=0.9 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=3.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325199 · Oakdale, LA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.7 · 50% of ind

  • DART 3.2 DART
  • RANK #25/28
  • PHOTO Air Liquide Advanced…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~99 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Air Liquide Advanced Materials - Fremont Facility (0.0 TCR gap)

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Natural Advantage LLC, Oakdale Facility in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Natural Advantage LLC, Oakdale Facility averages 1.7 TCR (50% of the Natural nonfood coloring, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Natural Advantage LLC, Oakdale Facility TCR series: 2017=3.6 · 2021=0.5 · 2022=0.9 · 2023=0 · 2024=3.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Natural Advantage LLC, Oakdale Facility falls in its industry

552 Natural nonfood coloring, manu establishments

Safer than 47% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Louisiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #25 safest of 28 Natural nonfood coloring, manu employers in Louisiana.

Natural Advantage LLC, Oakdale Facility (99 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 1.5 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 02004006008001,000 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Natural Advantage LLC, Oakdale Facility
Natural Advantage LLC, Oakdale Facility (99 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 1.5

Natural Advantage LLC, Oakdale Facility has more employees than the Natural nonfood coloring, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.5. 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 3.2 3.2 3 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.9 0.9 1 0 0
2021 0.5 0.5 1 0 0
2017 3.6 3.6 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325199 · LA · Oakdale

552 Natural nonfood coloring, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 6,723 rated employers in Louisiana with headcount on file · 10 employers in Oakdale, 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 Air Liquide Advanced Materials - Fremont Facility 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Milliken and Company - Hickory Plant (Owensboro Specialty Polymers) 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fritz 500 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Eugene Chemical 1.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE 11 Pilgrim Rd, Rayville, La. 71269 99 FTE
STATE-SIZE Performance Contractors, Inc. - Lake Charles Office 99 FTE
STATE-SIZE Performance Contractors, Inc. - Venture Global LNG-Cameron 99 FTE
STATE-SIZE EXCEL Maintenance @ Shintech, Addis 99 FTE
CITY-NEAR Oakdale Plywood - WP 398 FTE
CITY-NEAR Oakdale Community Hospital 243 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1107 202 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1107 199 FTE
NAT-TCR Toshiba Business Solutions - Farmer's Branch Irving 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Euclid Hill Health Investors Co., LLC 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR American Crescent Elevator Mfg Corp 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR S04298 - Spiegel Wast Management 1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hilton Garden Inn San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge 99 FTE
NAT-SIZE TXMCF 99 FTE
NAT-SIZE Secondary 99 FTE
NAT-SIZE US Gypsum Detroit 99 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, 2021, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.