Power generation, fossil fuel (e.g., coal, gas, oil), electric · Louisiana

Nelson Station

Westlake, LA · ~104 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
1.0
Avg TCR
1.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Nelson Station runs at 82% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Power generation, fossil fuel (e.g., coal, gas, oil), electric workplace, earning a grade C.

Nelson Station: 1.0 TCR = 82% of Power generation, fossil fuel (e.g., coal, gas, oil), electric BLS 1.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nelson Station safety composite

Nelson Station scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 66% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 26%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 0.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% 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

Nelson Station: 0.0 → 2.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.37× in 2024

Nelson Station's TCR rose 2.7 from 0.0 in 2020 to 2.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.37× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 221112 · Westlake, LA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 1.0 · 82% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #13/22
  • PHOTO NRG Energy WA Parish…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~104 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: NRG Energy WA Parish Power Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Nelson Station in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Nelson Station averages 1.0 TCR (82% of the Power generation, fossil fuel (e.g., coal, gas, oil), electric BLS benchmark).

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

Nelson Station TCR series: 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2023=1.2 · 2024=2.7 · BLS 1.2

Where Nelson Station falls in its industry

846 Power generation, fossil fuel establishments

Safer than 66% 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 #13 safest of 22 Power generation, fossil fuel employers in Louisiana.

Nelson Station (104 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 59 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Nelson Station
Nelson Station (104 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 59 employees and a TCR of 1.5

Nelson Station has more employees than the Power generation, fossil fuel (e.g., coa median and a lower 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 2.7 1.3 2 0 0
2023 1.2 1.2 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

221112 · LA · Westlake

846 Power generation, fossil fuel (e.g., coal, gas, oil), electric employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 6,723 rated employers in Louisiana with headcount on file · 97 employers in Westlake, 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 NRG Energy WA Parish Power Plant 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Colorado Bend 1 Power 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Smith Generating Plant 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rhode Island State Energy Center 1.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Enterprise Products - Fractionation 104 FTE
STATE-SIZE CETCO Energy Services Company-New Iberia 104 FTE
STATE-SIZE Phylway Construction, LLC 104 FTE
STATE-SIZE Daybrook Fisheries, Inc. 104 FTE
CITY-NEAR Turner at Sasol North America Westlake LA 2,782 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lake Charles South 1,132 FTE
CITY-NEAR CITGO Petroleum Corporation 1,093 FTE
CITY-NEAR Performance Contractors, Inc. - Sasol 1,037 FTE
NAT-TCR Casino Arizona 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Nice-Pak Manufacturing Facility 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Harvard Services Group of NJ 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Wheat Ridge Container 1.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE IP Corporation 104 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lawton 104 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pflugerville Nursing and Rehabilitation Center 104 FTE
NAT-SIZE OCNC, Inc. dba Silver Oaks Health and Rehabilitation 104 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, 2021, 2020. 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.