Asphalt paving (i.e., highway, road, street, public sidewalk) · Louisiana

Prairie Contractors, Inc.

Opelousas, LA · ~94 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.9
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Prairie Contractors, Inc. runs at 31% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Asphalt paving (i.e., highway, road, street, public sidewalk) workplace, earning a grade A.

Prairie Contractors, Inc.: 0.9 TCR = 31% of Asphalt paving (i.e., highway, road, street, public sidewalk) BLS 2.8 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Prairie Contractors, Inc. safety composite

Prairie Contractors, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 53%), 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).

B

76/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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%).

Prairie Contractors, Inc. held a steady TCR band

Prairie Contractors, Inc.'s TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 2.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=0.0 · 2018=1.0 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=1.8 · 2021=0.9 · 2022=0.9 · 2023=2.4 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Opelousas, LA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 31% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #13/33
  • PHOTO IH 35E, Ellis County
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~94 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: IH 35E, Ellis County (0.0 TCR gap)

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Prairie Contractors, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Prairie Contractors, Inc. averages 0.9 TCR (31% of the Asphalt paving (i.e., highway, road, street, public sidewalk) BLS benchmark).

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

Prairie Contractors, Inc. TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=1 · 2019=0 · 2020=1.8 · 2021=0.9 · 2022=0.9 · 2023=2.4 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.8

Where Prairie Contractors, Inc. falls in its industry

4,078 Asphalt paving (i.e., highway, establishments

Safer than 86% 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 #13 safest of 33 Asphalt paving (i.e., highway, employers in Louisiana.

Prairie Contractors, Inc. (94 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 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 01,0002,0003,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Prairie Contractors, Inc.
Prairie Contractors, Inc. (94 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Prairie Contractors, Inc. has more employees than the Asphalt paving (i.e., highway, road, str 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 2.4 2.4 3 0 0
2022 0.9 0.9 1 0 0
2021 0.9 0.9 1 0 0
2020 1.8 1.8 2 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 1.0 0.0 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · LA · Opelousas

4,078 Asphalt paving (i.e., highway, road, street, public sidewalk) 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 · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR IH 35E, Ellis County 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rieth-Riley - LaPorte 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bettendorf 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Johnson Bros. Corporation, a Southland Company - 2730 Brightline Zone 4 Phase II 0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Tokai CarbonCB.com 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dolet Hills Power Station 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE CECO Concrete Construction : New Orleans 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE ACA Mechanical/Industrial LLC 94 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 Princeton Main Office 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Point South RMC 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Eberhard 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Universidad Ana G. Mendez - Yabucoa 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Prospect Airport Services CVG 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gardena Plant #25 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE Growers' Choice, Inc. 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE TFC Concessions 94 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.