Joint compounds, gypsum based, manufacturing · Louisiana

NGC - Westwego Plant

Westwego, LA · ~53 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

NGC - Westwego Plant runs at 89% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Joint compounds, gypsum based, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

NGC - Westwego Plant: 2.9 TCR = 89% of Joint compounds, gypsum based, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

NGC - Westwego Plant safety composite

NGC - Westwego Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 36%), 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% 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%).

Rising injury rate

NGC - Westwego Plant: 0.0 → 1.3 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 7.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.43× in 2019

NGC - Westwego Plant's TCR rose 1.3 from 0.0 in 2017 to 1.3 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 7.6 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.43× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327420 · Westwego, LA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.9 · 89% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK P36
  • PHOTO CA015 Antioch Gypsum
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~53 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CA015 Antioch Gypsum (0.0 TCR gap)

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NGC - Westwego Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows NGC - Westwego Plant averages 2.9 TCR (89% of the Joint compounds, gypsum based, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

NGC - Westwego Plant TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=7.6 · 2019=1.3 · BLS 3.3

Where NGC - Westwego Plant falls in its industry

123 Joint compounds, gypsum based, establishments

Safer than 36% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
NGC - Westwego Plant (53 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 2.3 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 050100150200250300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate NGC - Westwego Plant
NGC - Westwego Plant (53 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 2.3

NGC - Westwego Plant has fewer employees than the Joint compounds, gypsum based, manufactu median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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
2019 1.3 1.3 1 0 0
2018 7.6 6.1 4 1 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327420 · LA · Westwego

123 Joint compounds, gypsum based, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 6,723 rated employers in Louisiana with headcount on file · 25 employers in Westwego, 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 CA015 Antioch Gypsum 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 104 - Madison 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR USG Corporation Chicago Construction 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR CertainTeed Gypsum Palatka 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Shreveport 2444 Levy AK3K 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE DonahueFavret Contractors, Inc. 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE US Aqua Services Inc 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE WT Construction Inc. 53 FTE
CITY-NEAR Loop Linen Service 147 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cargill, Inc Westwego 130 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cargill Agricultural Supply Chain - Westwego Grain 128 FTE
CITY-NEAR Performance Contractors, Inc. - Cornerstone-Waggaman 97 FTE
NAT-TCR William Lyon Homes, Inc. - Nor Cal Division 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR MDT-HARRISBURG 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Cdsd Whitestone 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Farm Location 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Navarino Property Management 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE US Tower Services, Inc. 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE #40 Art Van Kalamazoo 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE #53 Art Van Ann Arbor 53 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: 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.