Diagnostic equipment, medical, merchant wholesalers · Louisiana

Opelousas

Opelousas, LA · ~18 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Opelousas runs at 110% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Diagnostic equipment, medical, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

Opelousas: 2.4 TCR = 110% of Diagnostic equipment, medical, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Opelousas safety composite

Opelousas scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 56% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 5%), 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)
C 2.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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

Opelousas: 0.0 → 9.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 9.7 TCR · DART/TCR 4× in 2024

Opelousas's TCR rose 9.7 from 0.0 in 2020 to 9.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 4× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423450 · Opelousas, LA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.4 · 110% of ind

  • DART 9.7 DART
  • RANK #4/11
  • PHOTO 03-18-02 SOUTH DIV -…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~18 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 03-18-02 SOUTH DIV - LONE STAR REGION (0.0 TCR gap)

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Opelousas in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Opelousas averages 2.4 TCR (110% of the Diagnostic equipment, medical, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Opelousas TCR series: 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=9.7 · BLS 2.2

Where Opelousas falls in its industry

754 Diagnostic equipment, medical, establishments

Safer than 56% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Louisiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 11 Diagnostic equipment, medical, employers in Louisiana.

Opelousas (18 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 Opelousas
Opelousas (18 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Opelousas has fewer employees than the Diagnostic equipment, medical, merchant median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 9.7 9.7 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 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

423450 · LA · Opelousas

754 Diagnostic equipment, medical, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 6,723 rated employers in Louisiana with headcount on file · 37 employers in Opelousas, LA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR 03-18-02 SOUTH DIV - LONE STAR REGION 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 04-21-02 NORTHEAST DIV - BLUE RIDGE REGION 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR HORIBA Instruments Incorporated - Medical (Canton) 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 3495-11DA553 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Broussard Wireline 1062 Aillet Rd 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pineville Apparatus Maintenance 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE JW Grand Inc. 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ft Polk -Womens Health 18 FTE
CITY-NEAR Opelousas General Hospital Authority 1,144 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6048 906 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 6048 680 FTE
CITY-NEAR Evangeline Downs 378 FTE
NAT-TCR Williams Lumber Branch 1000 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 0409 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 0612 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 1144 2.4 TCR

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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.