Calcining petroleum coke from refined petroleum · Louisiana

Reynolds Metals Subsidiary of Alcoa Primary Metals, Lake Charles Carbon Plant

Lake Charles, LA · ~30 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Reynolds Metals Subsidiary of Alcoa Primary Metals, Lake Charles Carbon Plant runs at 29% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Calcining petroleum coke from refined petroleum workplace, earning a grade A.

Reynolds Metals Subsidiary of Alcoa Primary Metals, Lake Charles Carbon Plant: 1.0 TCR = 29% of Calcining petroleum coke from refined petroleum BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Reynolds Metals Subsidiary of Alcoa Primary Metals, Lake Charles Carbon Plant safety composite

Reynolds Metals Subsidiary of Alcoa Primary Metals, Lake Charles Carbon Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 73% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 16%), 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 0.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 54% 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

Reynolds Metals Subsidiary of Alcoa Primary Metals, Lake Charles Carbon Plant: 0.0 → 1.9 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 1.9 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2017

Reynolds Metals Subsidiary of Alcoa Primary Metals, Lake Charles Carbon Plant's TCR rose 1.9 from 0.0 in 2016 to 1.9 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 324199 · Lake Charles, LA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.0 · 29% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #5/9
  • PHOTO Rain CII Carbon - No…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Rain CII Carbon - Norco (0.0 TCR gap)

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Reynolds Metals Subsidiary of Alcoa Primary Metals, Lake Charles Carbon Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Reynolds Metals Subsidiary of Alcoa Primary Metals, Lake Charles Carbon Plant averages 1.0 TCR (29% of the Calcining petroleum coke from refined petroleum BLS benchmark).

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

Reynolds Metals Subsidiary of Alcoa Primary Metals, Lake Charles Carbon Plant TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=1.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Reynolds Metals Subsidiary of Alcoa Primary Metals, Lake Charles Carbon Plant falls in its industry

52 Calcining petroleum coke from establishments

Safer than 73% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Louisiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 9 Calcining petroleum coke from employers in Louisiana.

Reynolds Metals Subsidiary of Alcoa Primary Metals, Lake Charles Carbon Plant (30 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 2.0 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 050100150200250 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Reynolds Metals Subsidiary of Alcoa Primary Metals, Lake Charles Carbon Plant
Reynolds Metals Subsidiary of Alcoa Primary Metals, Lake Charles Carbon Plant (30 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Reynolds Metals Subsidiary of Alcoa Primary Metals, Lake Charles Carbon Plant has fewer employees than the Calcining petroleum coke from refined pe median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.0. 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
2017 1.9 1.9 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

324199 · LA · Lake Charles

52 Calcining petroleum coke from refined petroleum employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 6,723 rated employers in Louisiana with headcount on file · 197 employers in Lake Charles, 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 Rain CII Carbon - Norco 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR SunCoke Energy Indiana Harbor Operation 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rain CII Carbon - Chalmette 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rain CII Carbon - Lake Charles 0.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bennett Timber CO LLC 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Proserv Marine Technology 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pineville Service Plex 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Entergy Sterlington/Perryville Plant 30 FTE
CITY-NEAR Golden Nugget Lake Charles 2,182 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lauberge Casino Resort 1,973 FTE
CITY-NEAR Westlake Chemical Sout 1,063 FTE
CITY-NEAR Westlake Chemical South 1,054 FTE
NAT-TCR Siemens Energy Inc. - Mount Vernon 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 48- Ladd (Cattani) 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Beaumont District Office EN4T 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Glasgow 1.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Rai Mx Dca 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0011 - Stockton, Ca 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0006 - Hesperia, Ca 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0005 - Bakersfield, CA 30 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: 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.