Home health care agencies · Louisiana

St. Joseph Hospice-Northshore

Covington, LA · ~35 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
5.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

St. Joseph Hospice-Northshore runs at 115% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Home health care agencies workplace, earning a grade C.

St. Joseph Hospice-Northshore: 6.0 TCR = 115% of Home health care agencies BLS 5.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

St. Joseph Hospice-Northshore safety composite

St. Joseph Hospice-Northshore scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 31%), 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)
F 5.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.7

2016→2017

St. Joseph Hospice-Northshore injury rate improved

St. Joseph Hospice-Northshore's TCR fell 3.7 from 7.8 in 2016 to 4.1 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 7.8 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0.69× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.8 · 2017=4.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621610 · Covington, LA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 6.0 · 115% of ind

  • DART 4.1 DART
  • RANK #39/61
  • PHOTO Home Health King Cou…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~35 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Home Health King County (0.0 TCR gap)

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St. Joseph Hospice-Northshore in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows St. Joseph Hospice-Northshore averages 6.0 TCR (115% of the Home health care agencies BLS benchmark).

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

St. Joseph Hospice-Northshore TCR series: 2016=7.8 · 2017=4.1 · BLS 5.2

Where St. Joseph Hospice-Northshore falls in its industry

3,635 Home health care agencies establishments

Safer than 34% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Louisiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #39 safest of 61 Home health care agencies employers in Louisiana.

St. Joseph Hospice-Northshore (35 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate St. Joseph Hospice-Northshore
St. Joseph Hospice-Northshore (35 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 4.4

St. Joseph Hospice-Northshore has fewer employees than the Home health care agencies median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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 4.1 4.1 1 0 0
2016 7.8 7.8 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621610 · LA · Covington

3,635 Home health care agencies employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 6,723 rated employers in Louisiana with headcount on file · 104 employers in Covington, 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 Home Health King County 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0078 - HSP 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sutter Care at Home (30244) 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR CareGivers America Home Health Services, LLC Tannersville 6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Entergy Fossil Generation, Waterford 1&2 Plant 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Blue Heron 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE NOLA 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Palmisano Construction LLC 35 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chevron North America Exploration and Production Company Gulf of Mexico 2,113 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hornbeck Offshore Services, LLC 941 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lakeview Regional Medical Center, a Campus of Tulane Medical Center 758 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lakeview Regional Medical Center 729 FTE
NAT-TCR N and R of Nevada LLC 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-Swy 0027 3472 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Huntington (Wvhun) 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Lynnfield (Malyn) 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE 3620 Sws of Ga-Brunswick 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fairfield Inn & Suites 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Holiday Inn Harborview 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE House of Color, Inc. 35 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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