Ambulance and fire service combined · Louisiana

St. Tammany Fire District No. 3

Lacombe, LA · ~28 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.9
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

St. Tammany Fire District No. 3 runs at 341% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Ambulance and fire service combined workplace, earning a grade F.

St. Tammany Fire District No. 3: 10.9 TCR = 341% of Ambulance and fire service combined BLS 3.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

St. Tammany Fire District No. 3 safety composite

St. Tammany Fire District No. 3 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 85% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 43%), 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).

C

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 10.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

St. Tammany Fire District No. 3: 9.6 → 12.3 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 12.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2018

St. Tammany Fire District No. 3's TCR rose 2.7 from 9.6 in 2017 to 12.3 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922160 · Lacombe, LA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.9 · 341% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P43
  • PHOTO Town of Waterford Fi…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Town of Waterford Fire Services (0.0 TCR gap)

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St. Tammany Fire District No. 3 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows St. Tammany Fire District No. 3 averages 10.9 TCR (341% of the Ambulance and fire service combined BLS benchmark).

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

St. Tammany Fire District No. 3 TCR series: 2017=9.6 · 2018=12.3 · BLS 3.2

Where St. Tammany Fire District No. 3 falls in its industry

793 Ambulance and fire service com establishments

Safer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
St. Tammany Fire District No. 3 (28 employees, TCR 10.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8 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 0200400600800 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate St. Tammany Fire District No. 3
St. Tammany Fire District No. 3 (28 employees, TCR 10.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

St. Tammany Fire District No. 3 has fewer employees than the Ambulance and fire service combined median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 9.8. 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
2018 12.3 0.0 2 0 0
2017 9.6 9.6 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · LA · Lacombe

793 Ambulance and fire service combined employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 6,723 rated employers in Louisiana with headcount on file · 12 employers in Lacombe, 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 Town of Waterford Fire Services 10.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Palatine Rural Fire Protection District 10.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Parkway Fire Department 10.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fire Department 10.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Athens Hatchery 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ensco (Valaris) Broussard Facility 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lafayette 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE DIS-TRAN Packaged Substations LLC Warehouse 28 FTE
CITY-NEAR LaCombe (Highway 434) 190 FTE
CITY-NEAR NSR Louisiana, LLC d/b/a Northshore Rehabilitation Hospital 114 FTE
CITY-NEAR LACOMBE NURSING CENTRE 111 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northshore Extended Care Hospital 96 FTE
NAT-TCR Varick Campus 10.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 038 ABC Supply Co., Inc 10.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Desert Classic Landscaping 10.9 TCR
NAT-TCR CA105 10.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Boyd Machine and Repair Co Inc 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Masco Cabinetry Orlando Branch 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Loundonville 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jackson Machine Co. 28 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: 2018, 2017. 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.