Machine shops · Louisiana

Southside Machine Works, Inc.

Lake Charles, LA · ~88 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Southside Machine Works, Inc. runs at 32% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Machine shops workplace, earning a grade A.

Southside Machine Works, Inc.: 1.1 TCR = 32% of Machine shops BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Southside Machine Works, Inc. safety composite

Southside Machine Works, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 90% 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

75/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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%).

Southside Machine Works, Inc. held a steady TCR band

Southside Machine Works, Inc.'s TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 1.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2017=1.2 · 2019=1.1 · 2020=1.1 · 2021=1.1 · 2022=1.9 · 2023=1.9 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332710 · Lake Charles, LA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.1 · 32% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #7/28
  • PHOTO Profile Grinding Inc
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~88 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Profile Grinding Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Southside Machine Works, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Southside Machine Works, Inc. averages 1.1 TCR (32% of the Machine shops BLS benchmark).

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

Southside Machine Works, Inc. TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=1.2 · 2019=1.1 · 2020=1.1 · 2021=1.1 · 2022=1.9 · 2023=1.9 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Southside Machine Works, Inc. falls in its industry

1,821 Machine shops establishments

Safer than 90% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Louisiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 28 Machine shops employers in Louisiana.

Southside Machine Works, Inc. (88 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Southside Machine Works, Inc.
Southside Machine Works, Inc. (88 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Southside Machine Works, Inc. has more employees than the Machine shops median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 1.9 1.9 2 0 0
2022 1.9 1.0 2 0 0
2021 1.1 0.0 1 0 0
2020 1.1 1.1 1 0 0
2019 1.1 1.1 1 0 0
2017 1.2 0.0 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332710 · LA · Lake Charles

1,821 Machine shops 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 Profile Grinding Inc 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR American Innovative Products Inc 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2327_4264 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gen-El-Mec Associates, LLC 1.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Alpha VesselCO, LLC 88 FTE
STATE-SIZE Area Office Broward 88 FTE
STATE-SIZE B&C Sheet Metal, LLC 88 FTE
STATE-SIZE Auger Services Inc 88 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 ASTRO 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Cooper Standard Surgoinsville 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Lanxess Corporation - Fords, NJ 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Marek Houston 1.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Behr Paint Company Allentown MFG 88 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ohio Office 88 FTE
NAT-SIZE Central Jersey Wrecking & Recycling, Inc. 88 FTE
NAT-SIZE 5150 Fresenius Medical Care 88 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, 2017, 2016. 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.