Pallet parts, wood, manufacturing · Louisiana

Southern Packaging Inc.

Port Allen, LA · ~196 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

Southern Packaging Inc. runs at 30% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Pallet parts, wood, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Southern Packaging Inc.: 1.0 TCR = 30% of Pallet parts, wood, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Southern Packaging Inc. safety composite

Southern Packaging Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 97% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

77/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 97% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% 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%).

Southern Packaging Inc. held a steady TCR band

Southern Packaging Inc.'s TCR held near 0.0 from 1.0 in 2022 to 1.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 1.0 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=1.0 · 2023=1.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321920 · Port Allen, LA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.0 · 30% of ind

  • DART 0.5 DART
  • RANK #3/6
  • PHOTO PALATEC MFG INC
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~196 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: PALATEC MFG INC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Southern Packaging Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Southern Packaging Inc. averages 1.0 TCR (30% of the Pallet parts, wood, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Southern Packaging Inc. TCR series: 2022=1 · 2023=1 · BLS 3.3

Where Southern Packaging Inc. falls in its industry

952 Pallet parts, wood, manufactur establishments

Safer than 97% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Louisiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 6 Pallet parts, wood, manufactur employers in Louisiana.

Southern Packaging Inc. (196 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.3 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 0100200300400500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Southern Packaging Inc.
Southern Packaging Inc. (196 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.3

Southern Packaging Inc. has more employees than the Pallet parts, wood, manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.3. 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
2023 1.0 0.5 2 0 0
2022 1.0 1.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321920 · LA · Port Allen

952 Pallet parts, wood, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 6,723 rated employers in Louisiana with headcount on file · 101 employers in Port Allen, 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 PALATEC MFG INC 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Propak - Bentonville, AR-134 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kamps Atlanta 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Edwards Wood Products - Marshville Plant 0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE SLEMCO LAFAYETTE 196 FTE
STATE-SIZE Martco, L.L.C. (Oakdale) 196 FTE
STATE-SIZE 034-00394 196 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2576-10460000-1046 196 FTE
CITY-NEAR Turner at Pipe Fabrication Baton Rouge LA 545 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - BTR9 424 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pipe Fabrication Baton Rouge LA 398 FTE
CITY-NEAR Performance Contractors, Inc. - Fab Module Yard-Port Allen 348 FTE
NAT-TCR Grand Traverse Container-TC 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR HEB Center of Cedar Park 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Einfalt Recycling & Salvage i 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Virginia American Water - Alexandria District 1.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE 4223-M2400 196 FTE
NAT-SIZE Center Theatre Group 196 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chilco 196 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wilton #039 196 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: 2023, 2022. 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.